Description

This application is a SIMPLE list of Presidents of the UnitedStates

About the list
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This list includes only those persons who were sworn into office aspresident following the ratification of the United StatesConstitution, which took effect on March 4, 1789.

There have been forty-three people sworn into office, andforty-four presidencies, due to the fact that Grover Clevelandserved two non-consecutive terms and is counted chronologically asboth the twenty-second and the twenty-fourth president. Of theindividuals elected as president, four died in office of naturalcauses (William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Warren G. Harding,and Franklin D. Roosevelt), one resigned (Richard Nixon), and fourwere assassinated (Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, WilliamMcKinley, and John F. Kennedy). The first president was GeorgeWashington, who was inaugurated in 1789 after a unanimous ElectoralCollege vote. William Henry Harrison spent the shortest time inoffice at 31 days in 1841. At over twelve years, Franklin D.Roosevelt spent the longest time in office, and is the onlypresident to serve more than two terms; he died shortly into hisfourth term in 1945. The current president is Barack Obama; heassumed the office on January 20, 2009, and is the first presidentof African American descent. He is also the first president bornoutside the Contiguous United States, having been born inHawaii.

Features
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- Forty-four Presidents.
- Illustrations and description of each President

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