President of the United States of America

2017-01-21T08:05:47Z

Ellieelf: /* Presidents list */Deleted incorrect content

[[Image:Presidential seal 506x508.gif|thumbnail|right|The [[United States]] Presidential Seal]]
The '''President of the United States''' is the head of the [[United States of America|U.S.]] [[Executive Branch]]. As the [[head of state]] of the [[United States of America]], the president is one of the most powerful people in the [[world]]. The writers of the [[United States Constitution|Constitution]] recognized that they were writing a job description which, in [[England]], was and is filled by the office of the [[prime minister]] and position of the [[Monarchy|monarch]]. According to the [[Founding Fathers]] of the USA, at that time, the monarchy of England did not appear to serve the common man and the Founding Fathers wanted a [[government]] that did.

==Current president==
[[Donald J. Trump]] currently is the 45th and current President (see note below the Presidents list). He took office on January 20, 2017. His predecessor was [[Barack Hussein Obama]].

==Election==
The president is selected every four years by the American people, although not through a popular vote but rather through the [[Electoral College]]. This process makes the presidency one of the few elected officials in the [[United States of America]] chosen indirectly. The Founding Fathers implemented this procedure to ensure the relevance of smaller states in the voting process.

==Term limits==
Prior to [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]], presidents voluntarily limited themselves to two terms as an homage to [[George Washington]]. After Franklin D. Roosevelt served a little over twelve years in office, [[Congress]] passed the 22nd [[Constitutional Amendment]] restricting future presidents to two terms.

However, if the vice president succeeds to the presidency with no more than two years left in the prior president's term, he is allowed to run for two full terms, raising the potential time in office to ten years.

The first president to whom term limits applied was [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]].

==See also==
[[Vice President of the United States of America]]

==Presidents list==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!President
!Years
!State
!Party
!Vice President(s)
!Wing
|-
|1. [[George Washington]]
|1789-1797
|[[Virginia]]
|none
|[[John Adams|Adams]]
|Right
|-
|2. [[John Adams]]
|1797-1801
|[[Massachusetts]]
|[[Federalist]]
|[[Thomas Jefferson|Jefferson]]
|
|-
|3. [[Thomas Jefferson]]
|1801-1809
|[[Virginia]]
|[[Republican (Jeffersonian)]]
|[[Aaron Burr|Burr]], [[George Clinton|Clinton]]
|
|-
|4. [[James Madison]]
|1809-1817
|[[Virginia]]
|[[Republican (Jeffersonian)]]
|[[George Clinton|Clinton]], [[Elbridge Gerry|Gerry]]
|
|-
|5. [[James Monroe]]
|1817-1825
|[[Virginia]]
|[[Republican (Jeffersonian)]]
|[[Daniel D. Tompkins|Tompkins]]
|
|-
|6. [[John Quincy Adams]]
|1825-1829
|[[Massachusetts]]
|[[National Republican]]
|[[John C. Calhoun|Calhoun]]
|
|-
|7. [[Andrew Jackson]]
|1829-1837
|[[Tennessee]]
|[[Democrat Party|Democrat]]
|[[John C. Calhoun|Calhoun]], [[Martin van Buren|Van Buren]]
|Left
|-
|8. [[Martin van Buren]]
|1837-1841
|[[New York]]
|[[Democrat Party|Democrat]]
|[[Richard M. Johnson|Johnson]]
|
|-
|9. [[William Henry Harrison]]
|1841
|none
|[[Whig Party|Whig]]
|[[John Tyler|Tyler]]
|
|-
|10. [[John Tyler]]
|1841-1845
|[[Virginia]]
|[[Whig Party|Whig]]
|none
|
|-
|11. [[James Knox Polk]]
|1845-1849
|[[Tennessee]]
|[[Democrat Party|Democrat]]
|[[George M. Dallas|Dallas]]
|
|-
|12. [[Zachary Taylor]]
|1849-1850
|none
|[[Whig Party|Whig]]
|[[Millard Fillmore|Fillmore]]
|
|-
|13. [[Millard Fillmore]]
|1850-1853
|[[New York]]
|[[Whig Party|Whig]]
|none
|
|-
|14. [[Franklin Pierce]]
|1853-1857
|[[New Hampshire]]
|[[Democrat Party|Democrat]]
|[[William King|King]]
|
|-
|15. [[James Buchanan]]
|1857-1861
|[[Pennsylvania]]
|[[Democrat Party|Democrat]]
|[[John C. Breckinridge|Breckinridge]]
|
|-
|16. [[Abraham Lincoln]]
|1861-1865
|[[Illinois]]
|[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|[[Hannibal Hamlin|Hamlin]], [[Andrew Johnson|Johnson]]
|Right
|-
|17. [[Andrew Johnson]]
|1865-1869
|[[Tennessee]]
|[[Democrat Party|Democrat]]
|none
|
|-
|18. [[Ulysses S. Grant]]
|1869-1877
|[[Ohio]]
|[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|[[Schuyler Colfax|Colfax]], [[Henry Wilson|Wilson]]
|
|-
|19. [[Rutherford Hayes]]
|1877-1881
|[[Ohio]]
|[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|[[William A. Wheeler|Wheeler]]
|
|-
|20. [[James Garfield]]
|1881
|[[Ohio]]
|[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|[[Chester Arthur|Arthur]]
|
|-
|21. [[Chester Arthur]]
|1881-1885
|[[New York]]
|[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|none
|
|-
|22. [[Grover Cleveland]]
|1885-1889
|[[New York]]
|[[Democrat Party|Democrat]]
|[[Thomas Hendricks|Hendricks]]
|Right
|-
|23. [[Benjamin Harrison]]
|1889-1893
|[[Ohio]]
|[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|[[Levi P. Morton|Morton]]
|
|-
|24. [[Grover Cleveland]]
|1893-1897
|[[New York]]
|[[Democrat Party|Democrat]]
|[[Adlai Ewing Stevenson|Stevenson]]
|Right
|-
|25. [[William McKinley]]
|1897-1901
|[[Ohio]]
|[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|[[Garret Hobart|Hobart]],[[Theodore Roosevelt|Roosevelt]]
|
|-
|26. [[Theodore Roosevelt]]
|1901-1909
|[[New York]]
|[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|[[Charles Fairbanks|Fairbanks]]
|Centre
|-
|27. [[William Taft]]
|1909-1913
|[[Ohio]]
|[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|[[James S. Sherman|Sherman]]
|
|-
|28. [[Woodrow Wilson]]
|1913-1921
|[[Virginia]]
|[[Democrat Party|Democrat]]
|[[Thomas R. Marshall|Marshall]]
|Left
|-
|29. [[Warren G. Harding]]
|1921-1923
|[[Ohio]]
|[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|[[Calvin Coolidge|Coolidge]]
|
|-
|30. [[Calvin Coolidge]]
|1923-1929
|[[Massachusetts]]
|[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|[[Charles Dawes|Dawes]]
|Right
|-
|31. [[Herbert Hoover]]
|1929-1933
|[[California]]
|[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|[[Charles Curtis|Curtis]]
|Left
|-
|32. [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]]
|1933-1945
|[[New York]]
|[[Democrat Party|Democrat]]
|[[John Nance Garner|Garner]], [[Henry A. Wallace|Wallace]], [[Harry S. Truman|Truman]]
|Left
|-
|33. [[Harry S. Truman]]
|1945-1953
|[[Missouri]]
|[[Democrat Party|Democrat]]
|[[Alben Barkley|Barkley]]
|Left
|-
|34. [[Dwight David Eisenhower]]
|1953-1961
|[[Pennsylvania]]
|[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|[[Richard Nixon|Nixon]]
|Right
|-
|35. [[John Fitzgerald Kennedy]]
|1961-1963
|[[Massachusetts]]
|[[Democrat Party|Democrat]]
|[[Lyndon Baines Johnson|Johnson]]
|Moderate Left
|-
|36. [[Lyndon Baines Johnson]]
|1963-1969
|[[Texas]]
|[[Democrat Party|Democrat]]
|[[Hubert Humphrey|Humphrey]]
|Left
|-
|37. [[Richard Milhouse Nixon]]
|1969-1974
|[[California]]
|[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|[[Spiro Agnew|Agnew]], [[Gerald Ford|Ford]]
|Moderate Right
|-
|38. [[Gerald Ford]]
|1974-1977
|[[Nebraska]]
|[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|[[Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller|Rockefeller]]
|Moderate
|-
|39. [[Jimmy Carter]]
|1977-1981
|[[Georgia]]
|[[Democrat Party|Democrat]]
|[[Walter Mondale|Mondale]]
|Left
|-
|40. [[Ronald Wilson Reagan]]
|1981-1989
|[[California]]
|[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|[[George H. W. Bush|(H.W.) Bush]]
|Right
|-
|41. [[George Herbert Walker Bush]]
|1989-1993
|[[Texas]]
|[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|[[Dan Quayle|Quayle]]
|Right
|-
|42. [[Bill Clinton]]
|1993-2001
|[[Arkansas]]
|[[Democrat Party|Democrat]]
|[[Al Gore|Gore]]
|Left
|-
|43. [[George Walker Bush]]
|2001-2009
|[[Texas]]
|[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|[[Dick Cheney|Cheney]]
|Right
|-
|44. [[Barack Hussein Obama]]<sup>1</sup>
|2009-2017
|[[Illinois]]
|[[Democrat Party|Democrat]]
|[[Joseph Biden|Biden]]
|Left
|-
|45. [[Donald John Trump]]
|took office on January 20, 2017
|[[New York]]
|[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|[[Mike Pence|Pence]]
|Right
|}

==References==
<references />

{{USPresidents}}
[[Category:United States]]
[[Category:United States Elected Officials]]
[[Category:United States History]]

Conservapedia - User contributions [en]

President of the United States of America