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2000 Electoral College vote results Outgoing President Bill Clinton and President-elect George W. Bush in the Oval Office on December 19, 2000. The oldest son of George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, George W. Bush emerged as a presidential contender in his own right with his victory in the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election.
John Tyler was the first vice president to assume the presidency during a presidential term, setting the precedent that a vice president who does so becomes the fully functioning president with a new, distinct administration. [13] Throughout most of its history, American politics has been dominated by political parties. The Constitution is ...
President Term First Last Total Abraham Lincoln: 1861–1865 1 2 3 Andrew Johnson: 1865–1869 3 7 5 Ulysses S. Grant: 1869–1877 8 20 15 Rutherford B. Hayes 1877–1881 None None 0 Chester A. Arthur: 1881–1885 21 23 3
George W. Bush, a Republican from Texas, was elected President of the United States on December 12, 2000 (following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bush v. Gore) and was inaugurated as the nation's 43rd president on January 20, 2001.
Confederate States of America March 4: Abraham Lincoln becomes the 16th U.S. president Hannibal Hamlin becomes the 15th U.S. vice president. January 3 – American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the Union. January 9 – Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union, preceding the American Civil War.
George H. W. Bush's tenure as the 41st president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 1989, and ended on January 20, 1993. Bush, a Republican from Texas and the incumbent vice president for two terms under President Ronald Reagan, took office following his landslide victory over Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential election.
Legally, the war did not end until August 20, 1866, when President Johnson issued a proclamation that declared "that the said insurrection is at an end and that peace, order, tranquillity, and civil authority now exist in and throughout the whole of the United States of America". [j]
March 4, 1861: Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated President of the United States. April 12–14, 1861: Battle of Fort Sumter, Civil War began. April 19, 1861: Union blockade of the South begins at Fort Monroe, Virginia. [4] April 27, 1861: President Lincoln suspends habeas corpus from Washington, D.C., to Philadelphia [5] and called up 75,000 militia.