USA Presidents - List

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This chronological list contains entries for each president of the United States Of America.

Four years the President shall hold office was from Mar 4 of alternate odd years beginning with 1789.This came from the act of Sep 13, 1788, of the Old Congress, the first Wednesday in March, which was Mar 4, 1789. Washington was not inaugurated until Apr 30, by an act Mar 1, 1792, it was then that the term went to fourth day of Mar next succeeding the date of election.Until the adoption of the 20th Amendment, the terms of President and Vice:President ended at noon on the 20th of Jan. The prevailing Philadelphia Convention favored the indefinite eligibility of the President.It was Jefferson who raised the objection. Prior to 1940, the idea that no President should hold office for more than two terms was thought to be a fixed tradition.The departure from the tradition in electing President Franklin D. Roosevelt to third and fourth terms led to the proposal by Congress on March 24, 1947 to embody the this in the Constitutional Document. The proposal became a part of this on Feb 27, 1951.