List of Presidents of the United States (Rule, Britannia!)

The President of the United States of Atlantis (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces. The person in this position is the leader of the country which has the largest economy and the largest military, with command authority over the largest active nuclear arsenal. As chief of the executive branch and head of the federal government as a whole, the presidency is the highest political office in the United States by influence and recognition. The president is frequently described one of the most powerful people in the world, the other being the Prime Minister of Britannia.

Article II of the U.S. Constitution vests the executive power of the United States in the president and charges him with the execution of federal law, alongside the responsibility of appointing federal executive, diplomatic, regulatory, and judicial officers, and concluding treaties with foreign powers with the advice and consent of the Senate. The president is further empowered to grant federal pardons and reprieves, and to convene and adjourn either or both houses of Congress under extraordinary circumstances. Since the founding of the United States, the power of the president and the federal government have grown substantially, and each modern president, despite possessing no formal legislative powers beyond signing or vetoing congressionally passed bills, is largely responsible for dictating the legislative agenda of his party and the foreign and domestic policy of the United States.

Upon the death, resignation, or removal from office of an incumbent President, the Vice President assumes the office. The President must be at least 35 years of age, has to have lived in the United States for 14 years, and has to be a "natural born" citizen of the United States. The president is directly elected by the people and is one of only two nationally elected federal officers, the other being the Vice President of the United States.

The Twenty-second Amendment, adopted in 1951, prohibits a person from being elected to the presidency more than once if that person previously had served as president, or acting president, for more than two years of another person's term as president. In all, 37 individuals have served 37 presidencies spanning 63 full four-year terms. On January 1, 2013, Stephen Harper became the 37th and current president and is currently serving the 64th term, which ends on January 1, 2017.

Benjamin Franklin, the first president, was inaugurated in 1761. Of the individuals elected as president, one (Lewis Cass) was assassinated, the only president to have ever died in office. Cass spent the shortest time in office with 1 year and 95 days. Andrew Jackson, the ninth president, was the first to be elected by white men of all classes in 1824 after most laws barring non-land-owners from voting were repealed. Alton B. Parker was the first elected after women gained voting rights in 1912. Seven presidents (Smith, Kennedy, Castro, Trudeau, Mulroney, Haig, Estevez) were Eastern Catholic, and the rest have been Western Catholic. Fidel Castro was the first president of Castilian-Atlantean heritage and his immediate successor Pierre Trudeau was the first of French descent.