Presidents of the United States (Durant Scenario)

The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, indirectly elected to a four-year term by the American people through the Electoral College. The officeholder leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.

The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College; two, Grover Cleveland and Donald Trump, served two non-consecutive terms and are therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th as well as the 46th and 48th president of the United States respectively, giving rise to the discrepancy between the number of presidents and the number of persons who have served as president.

The presidency of William Henry Harrison, who died 31 days after taking office in 1841, was the shortest in American history. Franklin D. Roosevelt served the longest, over twelve years, before dying early in his fourth term in 1945. He is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. Since the ratification of the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1951, no person may be elected president more than twice, and no one who has served more than two years of a term to which someone else was elected may be elected more than once.