This precinct has been gerrymandered just before each of the last eight elections.
Four years for one term. Since President Obama was re-elected, that amounts to a total of eight. (So until 2016.)
George Washington served as a president for eight years.
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The first president of the United States. He was offered a position of king, but refused and served an eight year term as president. Before his presidency he was a general during the US revolution.
If a person was elected as Vice President but the person elected President died before taking office, the Vice President becomes the President and serves the now-dead President's term. Afterwards he/she can still run and be elected President in two subsequent elections, for a total of 12 years. After Franklin Roosevelt, the 22nd Amendment limited a President to two terms in office.
Ten- eight moved up to President when the president died or resigned; one died in office and one resigned before completing his term.
The ordinal number before eight is 7th
George H.W. Bush was President at the end of the Cold War. He was also Vice President for the previous eight years under President Reagan. Before that, he was the Director of the CIA, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, and a member of Congress.
Incumbent Vice Presidents who lost their presidential elections were...John C. Breckinridge (1860)Richard M. Nixon (1960)Hubert H. Humphrey (1968)Al Gore (2000)(Although Nixon lost the 1960 election, he ran again and won eight years later.... His opponent was the incumbent Vice President.)
Franklin Delano. Roosevelt was president when that law was made
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