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President George Washington is still widely admired when he completes his second term as President, and many hope that he will run for a third term. -
Thomas Jefferson goes on to serve two terms as President. Jefferson then steps down voluntarily solidifying the tradition of Presidents serving only two terms. -
As President Ulysses S. Grant, nears the end of his second term in the White House, he contemplates running for a third term. But he was elected out at the 3rd election. -
Roosevelt comes to the Presidency after the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901. He serves out the remainder of McKinley’s term and is reelected in 1905. After winning the 2nd term he plans to run a 3rd time. -
Having served two terms in which he guided the nation through the Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt remains popular among the voting public. With war looming in Europe, he breaks with tradition and runs for a third term in 1940. Roosevelt becomes the first President ever elected to a third term. -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt runs for an unprecedented fourth term. The strategy fails and Roosevelt is returned to the office one last time, but he dies only four months into this fourth term, in April 1945. -
For the first time since the beginning of the Depression, Republicans win control of both the Senate and House of Representatives in 1946. -
Truman fights a scrappy campaign and pulls off a stunning victory. The Korean War which begins during Truman’s second term makes him increasingly unpopular. Although Truman is eligible to run for a third term in 1952, he chooses to retire from the Presidency. -
Eisenhower remains popular after serving two terms, and observers believe he could have won a third term had he been able to run. -
With Ronald Reagan in his second term as President and limited from running again, Republican representative Guy Vander Jagt introduces a bill to repeal the Twenty-second Amendment, but Congress does not act upon it.