22nd Amendment Project

By ryan134
  • September 14, 1901

    September 14, 1901

    Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest ever to serve his two terms
  • 1932-1944 The lead to the Amendment

    President Roosevelt was elected for President in 1932 and he had his two terms so then it was 1940. In the 1940 President election was when Roosevelt wanted to do a third term. Which then he also won that one as well and he had 4 terms but then he got killed in his fourth term
  • April 12, 1945: Where the line gets crossed

    In Roosevelt's thirteenth year he was killed in April 1945. After the war ended concerns loomed in Congress regarding a possible risk of executive overreach about President Roosevelt.
  • March 1, 1947

    In March 21 Two years after President Roosevelt's death and the ascension Harry S. Truman was on his way up to the Presidency. The House of Representatives preposed Joint Resolution 27, calling for a set limit of two terms each containing four years, for all future presidents.
  • Period: to

    March 12, 1947

    The amendment proposal was passed 59-23, with 16 Democrats in favor
  • February 27, 1951

    In 1951 it finally got ratified after almost four full years of discussing about it
  • March 19, 1952

    March 19, 1952

    Harry Truman chooses not to run for a third term because the polls the Republican candidate was winning by a lot.
  • January 20, 1960

    January 20, 1960

    Eisenhower was the first president restricted to two terms. In which he was a republican President but after his two terms he was still well known.
  • November 22, 1963

    November 22, 1963

    There have been 8 presidents that have died while in their second term. The most recent one is John F. Kennedy November 22, 1963
  • January 20, 2009

    January 20, 2009

    This was the most recent two term restriction and this was by Barack Obama and the next one could be either Trump or Biden and there have been 21 have won election to the second term and 13 people who served two terms in office and this includes FDR who was elected in 4