President of the United States of America

The United States Presidential Seal

The President of the United States is the head of the 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 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 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

Joseph Biden was installed on January 20, 2021. His legitimate predecessor was Donald J. Trump. Biden's election is disputed due to credible evidence of extensive voter fraud.

Election

The president is elected 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
• Unitary Executive Theory
• List of United States Presidential firsts

Presidents list

President	Years	State	Party	Vice President(s)	Wing
1. George Washington	1789–1797	Virginia	none	Adams	Right
2. John Adams	1797–1801	Massachusetts	Federalist	Jefferson	Right
3. Thomas Jefferson	1801–1809	Virginia	Republican (Jeffersonian)	Burr, Clinton	Moderate Left
4. James Madison	1809–1817	Virginia	Republican (Jeffersonian)	Clinton, Gerry	Center
5. James Monroe	1817–1825	Virginia	Republican (Jeffersonian)	Tompkins
6. John Quincy Adams	1825–1829	Massachusetts	National Republican	Calhoun	Moderate Right
7. Andrew Jackson	1829–1837	Tennessee	Democrat	Calhoun, Van Buren	Moderate Left
8. Martin van Buren	1837–1841	New York	Democrat	Johnson	Left
9. William Henry Harrison	1841	none	Whig	Tyler
10. John Tyler	1841–1845	Virginia	Whig	none
11. James Knox Polk	1845–1849	Tennessee	Democrat	Dallas
12. Zachary Taylor	1849–1850	none	Whig	Fillmore
13. Millard Fillmore	1850–1853	New York	Whig	none	Moderate
14. Franklin Pierce	1853–1857	New Hampshire	Democrat	King	Moderate Left
15. James Buchanan	1857–1861	Pennsylvania	Democrat	Breckinridge	Left
16. Abraham Lincoln	1861–1865	Illinois	Republican	Hamlin, Johnson	Right
17. Andrew Johnson	1865–1869	Tennessee	Democrat	none	Moderate
18. Ulysses S. Grant	1869–1877	Ohio	Republican	Colfax, Wilson	Moderate Right
19. Rutherford Hayes	1877–1881	Ohio	Republican	Wheeler
20. James Garfield	1881	Ohio	Republican	Arthur
21. Chester Arthur	1881–1885	New York	Republican	none
22. Grover Cleveland	1885–1889	New York	Democrat	Hendricks	Right
23. Benjamin Harrison	1889–1893	Ohio	Republican	Morton
24. Grover Cleveland	1893–1897	New York	Democrat	Stevenson	Right
25. William McKinley	1897–1901	Ohio	Republican	Hobart, Roosevelt
26. Theodore Roosevelt	1901–1909	New York	Republican	Fairbanks	Center
27. William Taft	1909–1913	Ohio	Republican	Sherman	Moderate Right
28. Woodrow Wilson	1913–1921	Virginia	Democrat	Marshall	Left
29. Warren G. Harding	1921–1923	Ohio	Republican	Coolidge	Right
30. Calvin Coolidge	1923–1929	Massachusetts	Republican	Dawes	Right
31. Herbert Hoover	1929–1933	California	Republican	Curtis	Center
32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt	1933–1945	New York	Democrat	Garner, Wallace, Truman	Left
33. Harry S. Truman	1945–1953	Missouri	Democrat	Barkley	Moderate Left
34. Dwight David Eisenhower	1953–1961	Pennsylvania	Republican	Nixon	Moderate Right
35. John Fitzgerald Kennedy	1961–1963	Massachusetts	Democrat	Johnson	Moderate Left
36. Lyndon Baines Johnson	1963–1969	Texas	Democrat	Humphrey	Left
37. Richard Milhouse Nixon	1969–1974	California	Republican	Agnew, Ford	Moderate Right
38. Gerald Ford	1974–1977	Nebraska	Republican	Rockefeller	Moderate Right
39. Jimmy Carter	1977–1981	Georgia	Democrat	Mondale	Left
40. Ronald Wilson Reagan	1981–1989	California	Republican	(H.W.) Bush	Right
41. George Herbert Walker Bush	1989–1993	Texas	Republican	Quayle	Moderate Right
42. Bill Clinton	1993–2001	Arkansas	Democrat	Gore	Left
43. George Walker Bush	2001–2009	Texas	Republican	Cheney	Moderate Right
44. Barack Hussein Obama1	2009–2017	Illinois	Democrat	Biden	Left
45. Donald John Trump	2017–2021/present	New York	Republican	Pence	Right
46. Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.2	2021-present (disputed)	Delaware	Democrat	Kamala Harris	Far Left (Communist)

¹ Due to massive amounts of voter fraud committed by the Democrats and their operatives in the 2020 election, Biden is not considered by many as a legitimate "president".