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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]
Assassinated: died 2 years, 10 months, and 2 days into term 40: Millard Fillmore: 969 13th • July 9, 1850 [h] – March 4, 1853: Succeeded to one partial term (2 years, 7 months, and 23 days) [o] 41: Gerald Ford: 895 38th • August 9, 1974 [h] – January 20, 1977: Succeeded to one partial term (2 years, 5 months, and 11 days) [p] 42: Warren ...
[37] [h] First president to have a first lady younger in age. [38] First president to have a child (John Quincy Adams) serve as president of the United States. [39] First president to live to the age of 90. [i] [36] First president to have signed the Declaration of Independence. [40] First president to have visited Europe. [41]
Albert Bushnell Hart, a Harvard University history professor, edited a 27-volume work, The American Nation: A History, published in 1904–1918. [428] John Marshall, a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, published a two-volume biography of Washington in 1832, three years before his death. David Ramsay
[40] In March 1830, fearing another milk sickness outbreak, several members of the extended Lincoln family, including Abraham, moved west to Illinois, a free state, and settled in Macon County . [ 41 ] [ e ] Abraham then became increasingly distant from Thomas, in part, due to his father's lack of interest in education. [ 43 ]
James Madison (March 16, 1751 [O.S. March 5, 1750] – June 28, 1836) was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817.
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 ...
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.