Theodore Roosevelt
President Gerald R. Ford (1974-1977) did not want to be President of the US. His aspiration was to be Speaker of the US House of Representatives.
President Obama is originally from the state of Hawaii.
George Washington
jimmy carter
The US president's term has always been four years. What is new is the limit on the number of terms a president can serve which is now two, but was originally unlimited.
New Orleans
There was no president before 1789 and Washington, so no one was "elected". We had an English king.
The US president has always been elected in substantially the same way. The real change was in the way the vice-president was elected.
The current President of the US is Barack Obama who was a former congressman from the state of Illinois.
Because President Abraham Lincoln outlawed it when he became president!
jefferson was president but not sure about the rest...