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How many American presidents have been men?

All of the US presidents have been men. There have been no female presidents.


How many democratic presidents have there been and how many republican presidents have there been?

There were 5 Jacksonian Democratic presidents before the Civil War. There have been 9 modern Democrats since the Civil War. (The Democratic Party split over slavery in 1860 . After the Civil War ended a new Democratic Party emerged in opposition to the Republicans. ) Some people add the 5 and 9 to get 14 Democratic presidents. There was one president, George Washington, before parties came into being. There was one Federalistm John Adams, There are 4 Whig presidents. There are 4 Democratic-Republican (Jeffersonian) presidents. John Quincy Adams had ties with the residue of the old Federalist party and later was a leader in the Whig party. He did not really belong to a national party when hew was elected. There were 18 Republican presidents , counting Andrew Johnson, who ran as a Republican with Lincoln but had been a Democratic Senator and joined to the reformed Democratic party after he was President. Summary: 18 Republican, 13 Democrat, 4 Whig, 4 Democratic Republican, 2 unaffiliated, and one National Union Party (Andrew Johnson).


Could Truman have run for President a second term?

Yes. The 22nd amendment was proposed and ratified while Truman was president and he was explicitly exempted from its application. He could have run a second time and for an many terms as he could get elected. The amendment applied to all presidents after Truman, however.


How many gay presidents have there been?

There has never been any openly gay president.


Why was the 22nd Amendment passed?

It was passed (ratified in 1951) so that US presidents would be limited to only 2 terms. Mainly due to World War Two, FDR was elected to unprecented third and fourth terms, and many in politics worried about having a "president for life". However, passage of the term limit has resulted in difficulties for Presidents late in their second term, as so-called "lame ducks".

Related Questions

How many centuries have your presidents been elected in?

three


How many presidents ran for second term and not re-elected?

Two


How many fatherson presidents have been elected?

John Adams and John Quincy Adams were the first father-son Presidents elected into office.


How many vice presidents have been directly elected to president?

Nine


How many of your first 10 presidents served 2 terms?

5 of the first 10 presidents were re-elected for a second term.


How many presidents were elected and how many were not elected?

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How many times can presidents can be elected?

A president can be elected as many times as he wish


How many democratic presidents have there been since Ronald Reagan?

There has been only two democratic presidents elected since Ronald Reagan, they are Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.


How many presidents where elected from the Republican Party?

25 presidents form the repulican party were elected to be the president of the USA.


How many democrats have been elected to second term?

7


How many presidents have been elected unanimously?

No US president was elected unanimously by popular vote. The only president elected unanimously by the electoral college was George Washington (There was no popular vote in this election).


How many presidents in the US have been elected as president?

38 of the 43 US Presidents were elected to the position; the other five (Tyler, Fillmore, A. Johnson, Arthur and Ford ) moved up to fill a vacancy after the president died or resigned and were never actuallly elected to be President. (Four others first took the office by moving up from vice-president, but were then elected to a term of their own.)