Sunday, February 3, 2013

Presidential Terms

Barack Obama is the 17th person to be elected twice to the office of president of the United States.  Grover Cleveland was the only president to be elected to two nonconsecutive terms.  Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only one elected more than twice, dying less than three months afteer his fourth inauguration.
Never elected: aFive men served as president without ever being elected to that position.  Two --- Andrew Johnson and Chester A. Arthur --- succeeded presidents who were assassinated.  Two --- John Tyler and Millard Fillmore --- took the oath of office after a sitting president died of natural causes.  Gerald Ford is the only man to serve in the Oval Office without evere being elected president or vice president ---- Richard Nixon a[[ointed Ford vice president after Spiro Agnew resigned in 1973 after being charged with accepting bribes.

                             Years                         Words
No.     Name              served     Elected     in Address
  1.      George             1789 -          2            1,419
           Washington       1797                            135
  2.      John Adams      1797 -          1            2,321
                                 1801
  3.      Thomas             1801 -          2           1,721
           Jefferon            1809                          2,196
  4.      James               1809 -         2            1,191
           Madison            1817                          1,233
  5.      James               1817 -         2             3,421
           Monroe             1825                          4,456
  6.      John Q.             1825 -         1             2,911
           Adams              1829
  7.      Andrew             1829 -         2             1,125
           Jackson            1837                          1,172
  8.      Martin Van        1837 -         1              3,832
           Buren               1841
  9.      William H.         1841            1             8,445
            Harrison
10.      John Tyler         1841-           0             ------
                                1845
11.      James K.           1845 -          1             4,801
           Polk                 1849
12.      Zachary            1849 -           1             1,087
           Taylor              1850
13.      Millard              1850 -           0             -------
           Fillmore            1853
14.      Franklin            1853 -            1             3,329
           Pierce             1857
15.      James               1857 -             1            2,822
           Buchanan         1861
16.      Abraham            1861 -               2              3,628
            Lincoln               1865                                      698
17.       Andrew           1865 -             0              ------
            Johnson           1869
18.       Ulysses S.        1869 -             2             1,122
            Grant               1877                             1,337
19.       Rutherford       1877 -              1              2,481
            B. Hayes         1881
20.       James A.          1881                   1                   2,975
            Garfield
21.       Chester A.       1881 -               0               -----
            Arthur              1885
22.       Grover             1885 -               1              1,681
            Cleveland         1889
23.       Benjamin          1889 -               1              4,392
            Harrison           1893
24.       Grover             1893 -               1               2,012
            Cleveland         1897
25.       William              1897 -                    2                 3,964
            McKinley            1901                                          2,215
26.       Theodore         1901 -                1                 983
            Roosevelt         1909
27.       William             1909 -                1               5,426
            Howard Taft     1913
28.       Woodrow         1913 -                2               1,699
            Wilson              1921                                    1,526
29.       Warren             1921 -                1                3,326
            G. Harding        1923
30.       Calvin               1923 -                 1               4,054
            Coolidge           1929
31.       Herbert             1929 -                 1               3,801
            Hoover             1933
32.       Franklin D.        1933 -                  4               1,880
            Roosevelt         1945                                     1,808
                                                                             1,340
                                                                               557
33.       Harry S.           1945 -                   1               2,273
            Truman            1953 
34.       Dwight D.        1953 -                   2                2,446
            Eisenhower      1961                                       1,655
35.       John F.             1961 -                       1                      1,364
            Kennedy            1963
36.       Lyndon B.       1963 -                    1               1,492
            Johnson         1969
37.       Richard           1969 -                    2                2,123
            Nixon             1974                                         1,668
38.       Gerald            1974 -                     0                ------
            Ford               1977
39.       Jimmy             1977 -                     1                1,228
            Carter             1981
40.       Ronald            1981 -                     2                2,463
            Reagan           1989                                          2,564
41.       George H.        1989 -                      1                2,283
            W. Bush         1993                    
42.       Bill Clinton      1993 -                      2                1,580
                                2001                                         2,155
43.       George W.       2001 -                       2              1,571
             Bush             2009                                         2,065
44.       Barack           2009 -                       2                2,404
            Obama

             Ones in Bold were Assassinated
         

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