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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]
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, 1817: Two full terms James Monroe: 2,922
Al Neuharth was born in Eureka, South Dakota, [2] to a German-speaking family. [3] Neuharth's parents were Daniel J. and Christina, who married on January 11, 1922. Daniel died when Al was two.
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
[g] [35] First president to be defeated for a second term in office. [36] First president to not attend the inauguration of his successor. [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 ...
[355] [m] When he was president, Lincoln and his wife often attended services at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. [356] In the 1850s Lincoln asserted his belief in "providence" in a general way and rarely used the language or imagery of the evangelicals; instead, he regarded the republicanism of the Founding Fathers ...
He was taller than most of his contemporaries; [309] accounts of his height vary from 6 ft (1.83 m) to 6 ft 3.5 in (1.92 m). [310] He was known for his strength. [311] He had grey-blue eyes and long reddish-brown hair. [312] He did not wear a powdered wig; instead he wore his hair curled, powdered, and tied in a queue in the fashion of the day.
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 ...