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No - several presidents did not run for a second term, two by choice ( Polk and Hayes) and six because they fell out favor with their party (Tyler, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Andrew Johnson and Arthur) and five who died during their first term ( W. H. Harrison, Taylor, Garfield, Harding and Kennedy )

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No, they do not, for several reasons, such as, they simply do not want to be president anymore and want to continue with something else. Or, they have become so unpopular, that they do not bother to run for another election and so allow someone else to run in their political party.

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#1 George Washington (1792; won)

#2 John Adams (1800; lost)

#3 Thomas Jefferson (1804; won)

#4 James Madison (1812; won)

#5 James Monroe (1820; won)

#6 John Quincy Adams (1828; lost)

#7 Andrew Jackson (1832; won)

#8 Martin Van Buren (1840; lost)

#16 Abraham Lincoln (1864; won)

#18 Ulysses S. Grant (1872; won)

#22 Grover Cleveland (1888; lost)

#23 Benjamin Harrison (1892; lost)

#25 William McKinley (1900; won)

#26 Theodore Roosevelt (1904; won)

#27 William Howard Taft (1912; lost)

#28 Woodrow Wilson (1916; won)

#30 Calvin Coolidge (1924; won)

#31 Herbert Hoover (1932; lost)

#32 Franklin D. Roosevelt (1936, 1940 & 1944; won, won & won)

#33 Harry S Truman (1948; won)

#34 Dwight D. Eisenhower (1956; won)

#36 Lyndon B. Johnson (1964; won)

#37 Richard M. Nixon (1972; won)

#38 Gerald R. Ford (1976; lost)

#39 Jimmy Carter (1980; lost)

#40 Ronald Reagan (1984; won)

#41 George Bush (1992; lost)

#42 Bill Clinton (1996; won)

#43 George W. Bush (2004; won)

#44 Barack Obama (2012; won)

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The President of the United States can only run for re-election once, which if s/he wins, would give her/him a second term. Therefore, a president can serve a maximum of 8 years.

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