List of Presidents of the United States (The Misfire)

The President of the United States is the elected head of state and head of government in the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the American federal government, and is the commander-in-chief of the American Armed Forces. The president is directly elected to a four-year term by popular vote, and there is currently no limit on the number of times that the president can be elected.

Since the office of President of the United States was established in 1789, 46 people have held the office, with the current president being Joe Biden. The first president, George Washington, won unanimously in the Electoral College, which was abolished in 1976. Abraham Lincoln was the first president to serve three terms in the office, and Theodore Roosevelt served three terms in office, one of them nonconsecutive, making him both the 27th and the 29th president.

The longest-serving president was Franklin D. Roosevelt, who served five consecutive terms, and was in office from 1928 to 1948, and the shortest-serving president was William Henry Harrison, who was in office for a month in 1841. So far, there have been four presidents to serve for longer than two terms: Theodore Roosevelt, who served three nonconsecutive terms, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who served for five terms, John F. Kennedy, who served for three terms, and Bill Clinton, who served for three terms.

There are currently four living former presidents: John Kerry, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, and John F. Kennedy. The most recent death of a former president was of Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 16, 1984. Of the individuals who ha