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Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution sets forth the requirements and duties of the Executive Branch/President.
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U.S. Constitution is ratified
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George Washington sets an "unwritten" 2 term precedent for future U.S. Presidents.
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Incumbent candidate John Adams is beat by Thomas Jefferson. First time for incumbent to lose.
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Separate ballots are created for President and Vice President. Before this the candidate with the most votes won president and the runner up became vice president.
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Abraham Lincoln wins election of 1860 with only 40% of the popular vote, but most electoral votes in the North. Causes uproar and 3 months later South Carolina votes to secede from the Union.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt wins his 3rd term as U.S. President. The only president to have served 3 terms.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term, but unfortunately dies the next year (1945) Only president to serve more than two full terms.
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The 22nd Amendment is passed to limit U.S.presidents to two, four year terms.
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Harry Truman beats Dewey even though he trailed in the polls and was reported as "loser" in the papers at time of print.
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Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson takes over as President for the remainder of Kennedy's term, followed by another term where he himself was elected.
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25th Amendment passes, gives better description of who takes over when President dies, is disabled, resigns, etc. With this amendment the Vice President officially takes over for the President.
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Vice President Gerald Ford takes over for the remaining 29 months of President Richard Nixon's term after his resignation regarding the Watergate Scandal.
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George W. Bush wins election by 30 states. First candidate in 112 years to win presidency without winning the popular vote. Winning announcement was very delayed due to voting/tabulating issues in the state of Florida.
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Barack Hussein Obama elected as first ever African American President.
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Hillary Clinton is the first woman to be chosen as a presidential nominee of a major political party.
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Controversial campaign, accusations of foreign interference and leaks of private information released on the internet. Polls projected Clinton to win, though Trump ended up winning typically Democratic states. Trump won electoral vote, though Clinton won popular vote.
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Trump is the 5th person in U.S. History to become president without ever having held political office.
