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U. S. Presidents. Сheat sheet. 2.1
Presidents of the United States ofAmerica(USA)George Washington, the first president, was inaugurated in1789after a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. WilliamHenryHarrison spent the shortest time in office with 32 days in1841.Franklin D. Roosevelt spent the longest with over twelveyears, butdied shortly into his fourth term in 1945; he is the onlypresidentto have served more than two terms. A constitutionalamendment,affecting presidents after Harry Truman, was passed tolimit thenumber of times an individual can be elected president.AndrewJackson, the seventh president, was the first to be electedby menof all classes in 1828 after most laws barringnon-land-owners fromvoting were repealed. Warren Harding was thefirst elected afterwomen gained voting rights in 1920. Historyrecords four presidents– John Q. Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes,Benjamin Harrison and GeorgeW. Bush – who lost the popular vote butassumed office. John F.Kennedy has been the only president of RomanCatholic faith, andthe current president, Barack Obama, is thefirst president ofrecent African descent.You must know this!
