Only four terms? That's the most any one president has served. Franklin Delano Roosevelt served three terms, starting in 1933, and died during his fourth term in 1945. Every other President has only served one or two terms.
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George Washington served two terms.
FDR..... is that the only ?Franklin Roosevelt is the only president who served for more than two terms or more than 8 years.lost count at 80 lost count at 80
12 Presidents (J Adams, JQ Adams, Van Buren, Polk, Pierce, Buchanan, Hayes, B Harrison, Taft, Hoover, Carter and GHW Bush) each served one term. 10 Presidents (WH Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, Fillmore, A Johnson, Garfield, Arthur, Harding, Kennedy and Ford) each served part of a term. 12 Presidents (Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Grant, Cleveland, Wilson, Eisenhower, Reagan, Clinton and Bush) each served two complete terms. Cleveland is the only one of these whose terms were not consecutive. 7 Presidents (Lincoln, McKinley, T Roosevelt, Coolidge, Truman, LB Johnson and Nixon) served one complete term and (either before or after) part of another. 1 President (FD Roosevelt) served three complete terms and part of a fourth. The current President, Obama, is partway through his first term as of Feb 2011.
United States presidents are elected to terms that last 4 years. George Washington served 2 terms (8 years) setting the precedent for all subsequent presidents until FDR - who was elected to 4 terms but died during his 4th. Shortly thereafter, the Constitution was amended to limit all future presidents to a maximum of 2 terms unless they were first elected vice president and then assumed office when the president they are serving under leaves office with less than half his term remaining. In that case then can finish the unexpired term and then serve two additional full terms for a total of just less than 10 years maximum. No president since FDR has served more than 8 years.
Through Joseph Biden (January 20, 2009), there have been 47 men who served as Vice President of the US, all but two of them elected to the position. The first 3 Vice Presidents were actually "runners-up" for President, until the 12th Amendment was ratified in 1804.Two Vice Presidents, George Clinton and John C. Calhoun, served under 2 presidents, but several Presidents had more than 1 Vice President. Four Vice Presidents who succeeded to the office had no Vice President of their own (Tyler, Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, and Arthur).Both Gerald Ford and Nelson Rockfeller were appointed under the terms of the 25th Amendment.