USA's præsidenter: historisk oversigt

Of the persons elected president, died four in office of natural causes (William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Warren G. Harding and Franklin D. Roosevelt), a resigned (Richard Nixon), and four were assassinated (Abraham Lincoln, James A . Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy). The first president was George Washington who was inaugurated in 1789. William Henry Harrison spent the shortest time in office 31 days in 1841.On more than twelve years, spent Franklin D. Roosevelt, the longest tenure and is the only president to serve more than two periods, he died shortly into his fourth term in 1945. The current president is Barack Obama; he assumed office on 20 January 2009 and is the first president of African American descent. He is also the first president born outside the Contiguous United States, who was born in Hawaii.

George Washington

George Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the New America 1775-1797. As head of the Continental Army during the American Revolution, he led the U.S. victory over Great Britain. He presided over the writing of the Constitution in 1787, and he was unanimously elected the first president of the United States, a position he held from 1789 to 1797. Under his presidency, he developed the forms and rituals of the government, which has been used ever since, such as using a cabinet system and deliver an opening speech.