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January 25 – President Truman holds his two hundred and fifty-third news conference in the Indian Treaty Room in the Executive Office Building. President Truman begins the conference with an address on U.S. Representative to the United Nations Warren R. Austin conveying American government views on Communist China and announces appointments ...
President Length in days Order of presidency Number of terms 1: Franklin D. Roosevelt: 4,422 [b] 32nd • March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945 [c] Three full terms; died 2 months and 23 days into fourth term 2 tie: Thomas Jefferson: 2,922 3rd • March 4, 1801 – March 4, 1809: Two full terms James Madison: 2,922 4th • March 4, 1809 – March 4 ...
The incumbent president is Donald Trump, who assumed office on January 20, 2025. [5] [6] Since the office was established in 1789, 45 men have served in 47 presidencies; the discrepancy arises because of Grover Cleveland and Donald Trump, who were elected to two non-consecutive terms. Cleveland is counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the ...
President Truman signing a proclamation declaring a national emergency and authorizing U.S. entry into the Korean War President Truman (right) and General Douglas MacArthur at Wake Island, October 1950. Following World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union occupied Korea, which had been a colony of the Japanese Empire.
Former President Harry Truman with "The Buck Stops Here" sign on a recreation of his Oval Office desk. When he left office in 1953, Truman was one of the most unpopular chief executives in history. His job approval rating of 22% in the Gallup Poll of February 1952 was lower than Richard Nixon's 24% in August 1974, the month that Nixon resigned.
1948 – U.S. presidential election, 1948: Harry S. Truman is elected president for a full term, Alben W. Barkley is elected vice president; 1948 – Truman desegregates armed forces; 1948 – Selective Service Act of 1948: Passed after first such act expired; 1948 – Organization of American States: Alliance of North America and South America
Donald Trump was elected to his second term as president on Wednesday, Nov. 6, marking a rare moment for the United States. At 78, Trump has also made history as the oldest president ever elected ...
This was the 41st inauguration and marked the commencement of the second and only full term of Harry S. Truman as president as well as the only term of Alben W. Barkley as vice president. Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson administered the presidential oath of office while Justice Stanley Forman Reed administered the vice-presidential oath of office.