List of presidents of the United States (Johnsonverse)

The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, indirectly elected to a four-year term by the American people through the Electoral College. The officeholder leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.
Since the office was established in 1789, 45 people have served in 46 presidencies. The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College; one, 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 presidents and the number of persons who have served as president).
There are six living former presidents. The most recent to die was George H. W. Bush, on November 30, 2018.
The presidency of William Henry Harrison, who died 31 days after taking office in 1841, was the shortest in American history. Franklin D. Roosevelt served the longest, over twelve years, before dying early in his fourth term in 1945. He is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. Since the ratification of the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1951, no person may be elected president more than twice, and no one who has served more than two years of a term to which someone else was elected may be elected more than once.
Four presidents died in office of natural causes (William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Warren G. Harding, and Franklin D. Roosevelt), four were assassinated (Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy), and one resigned (Richard Nixon, stepping down prior to being inaugurated after winning the 1972 election after it was discovered he had hired Sirhan Sirhan to assassinate Robert F. Kennedy, viewing Hubert Humphrey as an easier candidate; Nixon was arrested for treason and sentenced to life in prison). John Tyler was the first vice president to assume the presidency during a presidential term, and set the precedent that a vice president who does so becomes the fully functioning president with his presidency, as opposed to a caretaker president. The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the Constitution put Tyler's precedent into law in 1967. It also established a mechanism by which an intra-term vacancy in the vice presidency could be filled. As no mechanism existed for filling an intra-term vacancy in the vice presidency before 1967, the office was left vacant until filled through the next ensuing presidential election and subsequent inauguration.
Throughout most of its history, American politics has been dominated by political parties. The Constitution is silent on the issue of political parties, and at the time it came into force in 1789, no organized parties existed. Soon after the 1st Congress convened, factions began rallying around dominant Washington administration officials, such as Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. Greatly concerned about the capacity of political parties to destroy the fragile unity holding the nation together, Washington remained unaffiliated with any political faction or party throughout his eight-year presidency. He was, and remains, the only U.S. president never affiliated with a political party.
== Presidents (from 1944) ==
No.	President 	Term 	Party 	Vice president
32 	Franklin D. Roosevelt 	1933-1945	Democratic	Harry S. Truman
33 	Harry S. Truman 	1945-1953	Democratic	Alben W. Barkley
34 	Dwight D. Eisenhower 	1953-1961	Republican	Richard M. Nixon
35 	John F. Kennedy 	1961-1963	Democratic	Lyndon B. Johnson
36 	Lyndon B. Johnson 	1963-1969	Democratic	Hubert Humphrey
37 	Robert F. Kennedy 	1969-1973	Democratic	William Proxmire
38 	Gerald R. Ford 	1973-1977	Republican	Spiro Agnew
39 	Jimmy Carter 	1977-1981	Democratic	Walter Mondale
40 	Ronald Reagan 	1981-1989	Republican	George H. W. Bush
41 	George H. W. Bush 	1989-1993	Republican	Dan Quayle
42 	Bill Clinton 	1993-2001	Democratic	Al Gore
43 	George W. Bush 	2001-2009	Republican	Dick Cheney
44 	Barack Obama 	2009-2017	Democratic	Joe Biden
45 	Donald Trump (disputed)	2017-2021	Republican	Mike Pence
46 	Sheldon Johnson, Jr. 	incumbent	Democratic	Val Demings
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