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Four years is one term. US presidents can only serve two for four year terms, for a total of eight years.The controlling law is the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution. Section 1 of the amendment reads "No person shall be elected to the office of President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of President more than once.

This effectively limits a person to 10 years (2 year completing someone else's term + 2 4 year terms).

An interesting point:

There is actually no limit in law for how many years a person may serve as President; the applicable laws in this regard are presently limited to restricting how many times a person may be elected, but do not restrict how many years a person may serve as president. In the United States, the legal limit is technically 10 years, not 8 as often but erroneously supposed. A President may serve as many as (but not more than) two years of a previous President's term and subsequently be elected to two full terms of his own. These restrictions are imposed by Section 1 of the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Other applicable areas of law concerning presidential succession are set forth in Article I, Section 1, Clause 6 of the Constitution, and by the 25th Amendment (see Related links, below, for more information).

The law is virtually silent on the improbable, but possible, event that a person who has previously served for the maximum ten years in the circumstances described above is subsequently elected, or becomes after appointment by the President, Vice President - and becomes thereafter President upon the death, incapacitation, or resignation of the elected or serving President; in such a sequence of events, a person could presumably serve as many as 14 years - or even more, in the even-more unlikely event that the scenario described should occur more than once.

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