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Bragi Þór Marinósson, Eimskip Executive Vice President / International Operations; Björn Einarsson, Eimskip Vice President / Sales and Business Management; Jónína Guðný Magnúsdóttir, Eimskip Executive Vice President / Iceland Domestic Operations and Services; Davíð Ingi Jónsson, Eimskip General Counsel and Compliance Officer [6]
Björn Sveinsson Björnsson (15 October 1909 – 14 April 1998) was the son of Iceland's first president Sveinn Björnsson and was one of about twenty Icelanders who fought for the Nazi regime during World War II.
The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the number of presidencies and the number of individuals who have served as president. [5]
First president to visit Hiroshima, Japan, the location where the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare in 1945. [492] First president to write a scholarly article in a scholarly journal while president. [493] First president to visit an independent Trinidad and Tobago, Cambodia, Myanmar, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Laos while in office.
Of the individuals elected president of the United States, four died of natural causes while in office (William Henry Harrison, [1] Zachary Taylor, [2] Warren G. Harding [3] and Franklin D. Roosevelt), four were assassinated (Abraham Lincoln, [4] James A. Garfield, [4] [5] William McKinley [6] and John F. Kennedy) and one resigned from office ...
The office of prime minister (Peaminister) first came into use soon after Estonia gained its independence in 1918. From 1918 to 1934, Estonia used a parliamentary political system , where the presidency and ministry were subject to parliamentary confidence , but instead of a presidential office, the government was headed by a prime minister and ...
President Joe Biden claimed in a December interview that President-elect Donald Trump is “the only president to ever avoid an inauguration.” Verdict: False Presidents John Adams, John Quincy ...
Elected as president by an electoral college in 1982 and re-elected in 1988. The first president born in independent Finland. Served in the Continuation War of the Second World War. 10. Martti Ahtisaari (1937–2023) 1994: 1 March 1994 1 March 2000 Social Democratic Party of Finland * 23 June 1937, Viipuri † 16 October 2023, Helsinki