Also reflects the vice president's political party unless otherwise noted beside the individual's name | : Prints and Photographs Division, |
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Each of the first five sections is organized around a historical era and leads off with a presidential figure: Washington, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, while a sixth section examines the more recent history of the presidency | The 1796 presidential election was the first contested American presidential election and the only one in which a president and vice president were elected from opposing political parties |
Calvin Coolidge was initially sworn in as president on August 3, 1923, and then again on August 21.
30Presidents are numbered according to uninterrupted periods served by the same person | |
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Died September 14, 1901; see for further details | A vice president who temporarily becomes acting president under the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the Constitution is not counted, because the president remains in office during such a period |
For example, George Washington served two consecutive terms and is counted as the first president not the first and second | Changes during their time in office are noted |
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Died November 22, 1963; see for further details | Died September 19, 1881; see for further details |
His policy priorities as president soon proved to be opposed to most of the Whig agenda, and he was expelled from the party in September 1841.