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The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, [1] indirectly elected to a four-year term via the Electoral College. [2] Under the U.S. Constitution, the officeholder leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces. [3]
30th • August 2, 1923 [h] – March 4, 1929: Succeeded to one partial term (1 year, 7 months, and 2 days), followed by one full term 18: Richard Nixon: 2,027 37th • January 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974 [j] One full term; resigned 1 year, 6 months, and 20 days into second term 19: Lyndon B. Johnson: 1,886 36th • November 22, 1963 [h ...
Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison served as the first four presidents; Adams and Jefferson were the nation's first two vice presidents; [15] Jay was the nation's first chief justice; [16] Hamilton was the first secretary of the treasury; [17] Jefferson was the first secretary of state; [18] [19] and Franklin was America's most senior ...
The following is a list of national founders of sovereign states who were credited with establishing a state. National founders are typically those who played an influential role in setting up the systems of governance, (i.e., political system form of government, and constitution), of the country.
[1] First president to receive votes from every presidential elector in an election. [b] [10] First president to be inaugurated in New York City. [2] First president to fill the entire body of the United States federal judges; including the Supreme Court. [11] First president to deliver a State of the Union address (1790). [12]
Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital. [2] [3] He is of British and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry.[4] [5] His mother, Maye (née Haldeman), is a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, and raised in South Africa.
What remains of the original 400-acre (1.6 km 2) property is a 23-acre (93,000 m 2) parcel called the Jay Estate. In the center rises the 1838 Peter Augustus Jay House, built by Peter Augustus Jay over the footprint of his father's ancestral home, "The Locusts"; pieces of the original 18th-century farmhouse, were incorporated into the 19th ...
George Mason's coat of arms. Mason was born in present-day Fairfax County, in the Colony of Virginia, in British America, on December 11, 1725. [1] [2] [3] Mason's parents owned property in Mason Neck, Virginia and a second property across the Potomac River in Maryland, which had been inherited by his mother.