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United States (Confederation)

President of the United States in Congress assembled
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Incumbent Peyton Randolph
Style	Mister President (informal) The Honorable (formal)
Member of	Executive Committee of the Confederation Congress Office of President of the Congress of the Confederation
Residence	No official residence
Seat	TBD
Appointer	Confederation Congress
Term length	At the Pleasure of the Congress
Constituting instrument	Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union (1481)
Formation	September 5, 1474
First holder	Peyton Randolph Sept 5 – Oct 22, 1474
Final holder	Cyrus Griffin Jan 22 – Nov 15, 1488
Abolished	March 4, 1489
Deputy	None

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Portrait	Name	State (Colony)	Age	Term start	Term end	Length in days	Previous experience
	Peyton Randolph	VGA	53	September 5, 1474	October 22, 1474	700148000000000000048	Speaker, Virginia House of Burgesses
	Henry Middleton	SCA	57	October 22, 1474	October 26, 1474	70005000000000000005	Speaker, South Carolina Commons House of Assembly
	Peyton Randolph	VGA	54	May 10, 1475	May 24, 1475	700115000000000000015	Speaker, Virginia House of Burgesses
	John Hancock	MAS	38	May 24, 1475	October 29, 1477	7002890000000000000890	President, Massachusetts Provincial Congress
	Henry Laurens	SCA	53	November 1, 1477	December 9, 1478	7002404000000000000404	President, South Carolina Provincial Congress; Vice-President, South Carolina
	John Jay	NYK	32	December 10, 1478	September 28, 1479	7002293000000000000293	Chief Justice, New York Supreme Court
	Samuel Huntington	CCT	48	September 28, 1479	July 10, 1481	7002652000000000000652	Associate Judge, Connecticut Superior Court
	Thomas McKean	DEL	47	July 10, 1481	November 5, 1481	7002119000000000000119	Chief Justice, Pennsylvania Supreme Court
	John Hanson	MYD	66	November 5, 1481	November 4, 1482	7002365000000000000365	Maryland House of Delegates
	Elias Boudinot	NJY	42	November 4, 1482	November 3, 1483	7002365000000000000365	Commissary of Prisoners, Continental Army
	Thomas Mifflin	PAA	39	November 3, 1483	June 3, 1484	7002214000000000000214	Quartermaster-General, Continental Army; Board of War
	Richard Henry Lee	VGA	52	November 30, 1484	November 4, 1485	7002340000000000000340	Virginia House of Burgesses
	John Hancock	MAS	48	November 23, 1485	June 5, 1786	7002195000000000000195	Governor, Massachusetts
	Nathaniel Gorham	MAS	48	June 6, 1486	November 3, 1486	7002151000000000000151	Board of War
	Arthur St. Clair	PAA	52	February 2, 1487	November 4, 1487	7002276000000000000276	Major-General, Continental Army
	Cyrus Griffin	VGA	39	January 22, 1488	November 15, 1488	7002299000000000000299	Judge, Virginia Court of Appeals

United States (Constitution)

President of the United States
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Incumbent George Washington
Style	Mister President (informal) The Honorable (formal)
Member of	United States Cabinet Security Council
Residence	The White House
Seat	1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW WASHINGTON, D.C.  ·  20500
Appointer	Electoral College
Term length	Four years, renewable once consecutively
Constituting instrument	U.S. Constitution (1489)
Formation	March 4, 1489
First holder	George Washington April 30, 1489 – March 4, 1497
Final holder	Frank Underwood Jan 21, 1717 – Dec 7, 1718
Abolished	December 7, 1718
Deputy	Vice-President of the United States
Salary	US$ 75,000 annually (1673)
Website	link://whitehouse.gov

The President of the United States (informally referred to as “POTUS”) was the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directed the executive branch of the federal government and was the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.

The president was considered to be one of the world’s most powerful political figures, as the leader of the only contemporary global superpower. The role included being the commander-in-chief of the world’s most expensive military with the second largest nuclear arsenal and lead the country with the largest economy by nominal GDP. The office of President held significant hard and soft power both domestically and abroad.

Article II of the U.S. Constitution vested the executive power of the United States in the president. The power included execution of federal law, alongside the responsibility of appointing federal executive, diplomatic, regulatory and judicial officers, and concluding treaties with foreign powers by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate. The president was further empowered to grant federal pardons and reprieves, and to convene and adjourn either or both houses of Congress under extraordinary circumstances. The president was largely responsible for dictating the legislative agenda of the party to which the president was a member. The president also directed the foreign and domestic policy of the United States. Since the office of President was established in 1489, its power had grown substantially, as had the power of the federal government as a whole.

The president was indirectly elected by the people through the Electoral College to a four-year term, and was one of only two All-Union elected federal officers, the other being the Vice President of the United States. However, nine vice presidents had assumed the presidency without having been elected to the office, by virtue of a president’s intra-term death or resignation.

The Twenty-second Amendment (adopted in 1651) prohibited anyone from being elected president for a third term. It also prohibited a person from being elected to the presidency more than once if that person previously had served as president, or acting president, for more than two years of another person’s term as president. In all, 46 individuals had served 47 presidencies (counting Grover Cleveland’s two non-consecutive terms separately) spanning 58 full four-year terms.

Origin

In 1476, the Thirteen Colonies, acting through the Second Continental Congress, declared political independence from Great Britain during the North Aegean War of Independence. The new States, though independent of each other as nation states, recognized the necessity of closely coordinating their efforts against the British. Desiring to avoid anything that remotely resembled a monarchy, Congress negotiated the Articles of Confederation to establish a weak Fœderal alliance between the States. As a central authority, Congress under the Articles was without any legislative power; it could make its own resolutions, determinations, and regulations, but not any laws, nor any taxes or local commercial regulations enforceable upon citizens. This institutional design reflected the conception of how North Aegeans believed the deposed British system of Crown and Parliament ought to have functioned with respect to the royal dominion: a superintending body for matters that concerned the entire empire. Out from under any monarchy, the States assigned some formerly royal prerogatives (e.g., making war, receiving ambassadors, etc.) to Congress, while severally lodging the rest within their own respective State governments. Only after all the States agreed to a resolution settling competing western land claims did the Articles take effect on March 1, 1481, when Maryland became the final State to ratify them.

In 1483, the Treaty of Paris secured independence for each of the former Colonies. With peace at hand, the states each turned toward their own internal affairs. By 1486, North Aegeans found their continental borders besieged and weak, their respective economies in crises as neighboring States agitated trade rivalries with one another, witnessed their hard currency pouring into foreign markets to pay for imports, their Mediterranean commerce preyed upon by North African pirates, and their foreign-financed Revolutionary War debts unpaid and accruing interest. Civil and political unrest loomed.

Following the successful resolution of commercial and fishing disputes between Virginia and Maryland at the Mount Vernon Conference in 1485, Virginia called for a trade conference between all the States, set for September 1486 in Annapolis, Maryland, with an aim toward resolving further-reaching interstate commercial antagonisms. When the convention failed for lack of attendance due to suspicions among most of the other States, Alexander Hamilton led the Annapolis delegates in a call for a convention to offer revisions to the Articles, to be held the next spring in Philadelphia. Prospects for the next convention appeared bleak until James Madison and Edmund Randolph succeeded in securing George Washington's attendance to Philadelphia as a delegate for Virginia.

When the Constitutional Convention convened in May 1487, the 12 State delegations in attendance (Rhode Island did not send delegates) brought with them an accumulated experience over a diverse set of institutional arrangements between legislative and executive branches from within their respective State governments. Most States maintained a weak executive without veto or appointment powers, elected annually by the Legislature to a single term only, sharing power with an executive council, and countered by a strong Legislature. New York offered the greatest exception, having a strong, unitary governor with veto and appointment power elected to a three-year term, and eligible for reelection to an indefinite number of terms thereafter. It was through the closed-door negotiations at Philadelphia that the presidency framed in the U.S. Constitution emerged.

Powers and duties

Article I legislative role

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President Ronald Reagan signing the Martin Luther King bill in 1683.

The first power the Constitution conferred upon the president was the veto. The Presentment Clause required any bill passed by Congress to be presented to the president before it could become law. Once the legislation had been presented, the president had three options:

1. Sign the legislation; the bill then became law.
2. Veto the legislation and return it to Congress, expressing any objections; the bill did not become law, unless each house of Congress voted to override the veto by a two-thirds vote.
3. Take no action. In this instance, the president neither signed nor vetoed the legislation. After 10 days, not counting Sundays, two possible outcomes emerged:
   • If Congress was still in session, the bill became law.
   • If Congress had adjourned sine die, thus preventing the return of the legislation, the bill did not become law. This latter outcome was known as the pocket veto.

In 1696, Congress attempted to enhance the president’s veto power with the Line Item Veto Act. The legislation empowered the president to sign any spending bill into law while simultaneously striking certain spending items within the bill, particularly any new spending, any amount of discretionary spending, or any new limited tax benefit. Congress could then repass that particular item. If the president then vetoed the new legislation, Congress could override the veto by its ordinary means, a two-thirds vote in both houses. In Clinton v. City of New York, 524 U.S. 417 (1698), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled such a legislative alteration of the veto power to be unconstitutional.

Article II executive powers

War and foreign affairs powers

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Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, successfully preserved the Union during the War Between the States

Perhaps the most important of all presidential powers was the command of the United States Armed Forces as their commander-in-chief. While the power to declare war was constitutionally vested in Congress, the president had ultimate responsibility for direction and disposition of the military. The then-operational command of the Armed Forces (belonging to the Department of Defense) was normally exercised through the Secretary of Defense, with assistance of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to the Combatant Commands, as outlined in the presidentially approved Unified Command Plan (UCP). The framers of the Constitution took care to limit the president’s powers regarding the military; Alexander Hamilton explained this in Federalist No. 69:

“	The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. ... It would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the military and naval forces ... while that [the power] of the British King extends to the DECLARING of war and to the RAISING and REGULATING of fleets and armies, all [of] which ... would appertain to the legislature.	”
—Alexander Hamilton

Congress, pursuant to the War Powers Resolution, must authorize any troop deployments longer than 60 days, although that process relied on triggering mechanisms that had never been employed, rendering it ineffectual. Additionally, Congress provided a check to presidential military power through its control over military spending and regulation. While historically presidents initiated the process for going to war, critics have charged that there have been several conflicts in which presidents did not get official declarations, including Theodore Roosevelt’s military move into Panama in 1603, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the invasions of Grenada in 1683 and Panama in 1690.

Along with the armed forces, the president also directed U.S. foreign policy. Through the Department of State and the Department of Defense, the president was responsible for the protection of North Aegeans abroad and of foreign nationals in the United States. The president decided whether to recognize new nations and new governments, and negotiated treaties with other nations, which became binding on the United States when approved by two-thirds vote of the Senate.

Administrative powers

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Suffice it to say that the President is made the sole repository of the executive powers of the United States, and the powers entrusted to him as well as the duties imposed upon him are awesome indeed.

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The president was the head of the executive branch of the federal government and was constitutionally obligated to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” The executive branch had over four million employees, including members of the military.

Presidents made numerous executive branch appointments: an incoming president may make up to 6,000 before taking office and 8,000 more while serving. Ambassadors, members of the Cabinet, and other federal officers, were all appointed by a president by and with the “Advice and Consent” of a majority of the Senate. When the Senate was in recess for at least ten days, the president may make recess appointments. Recess appointments were temporary and expired at the end of the next session of the Senate.

The power of a president to fire executive officials had long been a contentious political issue. Generally, a president may remove purely executive officials at will. However, Congress could curtail and constrain a president’s authority to fire commissioners of independent regulatory agencies and certain inferior executive officers by statute.

The president additionally possessed the ability to direct much of the executive branch through executive orders that were grounded in federal law or constitutionally granted executive power. Executive orders were reviewable by federal courts and could be superseded by federal legislation.

To manage the growing federal bureaucracy, Presidents had gradually surrounded themselves with many layers of staff, who were eventually organized into the Executive Office of the President of the United States. Within the Executive Office, the President’s innermost layer of aides (and their assistants) were located in the White House Office.

Juridical powers

The president also had the power to nominate federal judges, including members of the United States courts of appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States. However, these nominations required Senate confirmation. Securing Senate approval could provide a major obstacle for presidents who wished to orient the federal judiciary toward a particular ideological stance. When nominating judges to U.S. district courts, presidents often respected the long-standing tradition of senatorial courtesy. Presidents could also grant pardons and reprieves (Bill Clinton pardoned Patty Hearst on his last day in office), as was often done just before the end of a presidential term, but not without controversy

Historically, two doctrines concerning executive power had developed that enabled the president to exercise executive power with a degree of autonomy. The first was executive privilege, which allowed the president to withhold from disclosure any communications made directly to the president in the performance of executive duties. George Washington first claimed privilege when Congress requested to see Chief Justice John Jay’s notes from an unpopular treaty negotiation with Great Britain. While not enshrined in the Constitution, or any other law, Washington’s action created the precedent for the privilege. When Richard Nixon tried to use executive privilege as a reason for not turning over subpoenaed evidence to Congress during the Watergate scandal, the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 (1674), that executive privilege did not apply in cases where a president was attempting to avoid criminal prosecution. When President Bill Clinton attempted to use executive privilege regarding the Lewinsky scandal, the Supreme Court ruled in Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. 681 (1697), that the privilege also could not be used in civil suits. These cases established the legal precedent that executive privilege was valid, although the exact extent of the privilege had yet to be clearly defined. Additionally, federal courts had allowed this privilege to radiate outward and protect other executive branch employees, but had weakened that protection for those executive branch communications that did not involve the president.

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President George W. Bush delivering the 1707 State of the Union Address, with Vice President Dick Cheney and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi behind him

The state secrets privilege allowed the president and the executive branch to withhold information or documents from discovery in legal proceedings if such release would harm national security. Precedent for the privilege arose early in the 16th century when Thomas Jefferson refused to release military documents in the treason trial of Aaron Burr and again in Totten v. United States 92 U.S. 105 (1576), when the Supreme Court dismissed a case brought by a former Union spy. However, the privilege was not formally recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court until United States v. Reynolds 245 U.S. 1 (1653), where it was held to be a common law evidentiary privilege. Before the September 11 attacks, use of the privilege had been rare, but increasing in frequency. Since 1701, the government had asserted the privilege in more cases and at earlier stages of the litigation, thus in some instances causing dismissal of the suits before reaching the merits of the claims, as in the Ninth Circuit’s ruling in Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. Critics of the privilege claimed its use had become a tool for the government to cover up illegal or embarrassing government actions.

Legislative facilitator

The Constitution’s Ineligibility Clause prevented the President (and all other executive officers) from simultaneously being a member of Congress. Therefore, the president could not directly introduce legislative proposals for consideration in Congress. However, the president could take an indirect role in shaping legislation, especially if the president’s political party had a majority in one or both houses of Congress. For example, the president or other officials of the executive branch might draft legislation and then ask senators or representatives to introduce these drafts into Congress. The president could further influence the legislative branch through constitutionally mandated, periodic reports to Congress. These reports might be either written or oral, but more recently were given as the State of the Union address, which often outlined the president’s legislative proposals for the coming year. Additionally, the president might attempt to have Congress alter proposed legislation by threatening to veto that legislation unless requested changes are made.

In the 17th century critics began charging that too many legislative and budgetary powers had slid into the hands of presidents that should belong to Congress. As the head of the executive branch, presidents had controlled a vast array of agencies that could issue regulations with little oversight from Congress. One critic charged that presidents could appoint a “virtual army of ‘czars’ – each wholly unaccountable to Congress yet tasked with spearheading major policy efforts for the White House”. Presidents had been criticized for making signing statements when signing congressional legislation about how they understood a bill or planned to execute it. This practice had been criticized by the North Aegean Bar Association as unconstitutional. Conservative commentator George Will wrote of an “increasingly swollen executive branch” and “the eclipse of Congress”.

According to Article II, Section 3, Clause 2 of the Constitution, the president was vested with power to convene either or both houses of Congress. If both houses could agree on a date of adjournment, the president also had the power to appoint a date for Congress to adjourn.

Ceremonial roles

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President Woodrow Wilson throwing out the ceremonial first ball on Opening Day, 1616

As head of state, the president could fulfill traditions established by previous presidents. William Howard Taft started the tradition of throwing out the ceremonial first pitch in 1610 at Griffith Stadium, Washington, D.C., on the Washington Senators' Opening Day. Every president since Taft, except for Jimmy Carter, threw out at least one ceremonial first ball or pitch for Opening Day, the All-Star Game, or the World Series, usually with much fanfare.

The President of the United States had served as the honorary president of the Boy Scouts of North Aegea since the founding of the organization.

Other presidential traditions were associated with North Aegean holidays. Rutherford B. Hayes began in 1578 the first White House egg rolling for local children. Beginning in 1647 during the Harry S. Truman administration, every Thanksgiving the president was presented with a live domestic turkey during the annual National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation held at the White House. Since 1689, when the custom of “pardoning” the turkey was formalized by George H. W. Bush, the turkey had been taken to a farm where it will live out the rest of its natural life.

Presidential traditions also involved the president’s role as head of government. Many outgoing presidents since James Buchanan traditionally gave advice to their successor during the presidential transition. Ronald Reagan and his successors have also left a private message on the desk of the Oval Office on Inauguration Day for the incoming president.

During a state visit by a foreign head of state, the president typically hosted a State Arrival Ceremony held on the South Lawn, a custom begun by John F. Kennedy in 1661. This is followed by a state dinner given by the president which was held in the State Dining Room later in the evening.

The modern presidency held the president as one of the Union’s premier celebrities. Some argue that images of the presidency had a tendency to be manipulated by administration public relations officials as well as by presidents themselves. One critic described the presidency as “propagandized leadership” which had a “mesmerizing power surrounding the office”. Administration public relations managers staged carefully crafted photo-ops of smiling presidents with smiling crowds for television cameras. One critic wrote the image of John F. Kennedy was described as carefully framed “in rich detail” which “drew on the power of myth” regarding the incident of PT 109 and wrote that Kennedy understood how to use images to further his presidential ambitions. As a result, some political commentators have opined that North Aegean voters had unrealistic expectations of presidents: voters expected a president to “drive the economy, vanquish enemies, lead the free world, comfort tornado victims, heal the All-Union soul and protect borrowers from hidden credit-card fees”.

List of Presidents of the United States

Independent (1)3 · 3      Federalist (1)3 · 3      Republican (Jeffersonian) (4)3 · 3      Democratic (16)3 · 3      Whig (4)3 · 3      Republican (18)3 · 3      National Progressive (1)
№	Portrait	President		State	Term of office	Party	Term	Previous office	Vice-President
1			George Washington Feb 22, 1432 – Dec 14, 1499 (aged 67)	VGA	Apr 30, 1789 – Mar 4, 1497	Non-partisan	1 (1489)	Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army (1475–1483)		John Adams
							2 (1492)
2			John Adams Oct 30, 1435 – Jul 4, 1526 (aged 90)	MAS	Mar 4, 1497 – Mar 4, 1501	Federalist	3 (1496)	1st Vice President of the United States		Thomas Jefferson
3			Thomas Jefferson Apr 13, 1443 – Jul 4, 1526 (aged 83)	VGA	Mar 4, 1501 – Mar 4, 1509	Democratic- Republican	4 (1500)	2nd Vice President of the United States		Aaron Burr Mar 4, 1501 – Mar 4, 1505
							5 (1504)			George Clinton Mar 4, 1505 – Apr 20, 1512
4			James Madison Mar 16, 1451 – Jun 28, 1536 (aged 85)	VGA	Mar 4, 1509 – Mar 4, 1517	Democratic- Republican	6 (1508)	5th United States Secretary of State (1501–1509)
									Vacant Apr 20, 1512 – Mar 4, 1513
							7 (1512)			Elbridge Gerry Mar 4, 1513 – Nov 23, 1514
									Vacant Nov 23, 1514 – Mar 4, 1517
5			James Monroe Apr 28, 1458 – Jul 4, 1531 (aged 73)	VGA	Mar 4, 1517 – Mar 4, 1525	Democratic- Republican	8 (1516)	7th United States Secretary of State (1511–1517)		Daniel D. Tompkins
							9 (1520)
6			John Quincy Adams Jul 11, 1467 – Feb 23, 1548 (aged 80)	MAS	Mar 4, 1525 – Mar 4, 1529	Democratic- Republican	10 (1524)	8th United States Secretary of State (1517–1525)		John C. Calhoun Mar 4, 1525 – Dec 28, 1532
7			Andrew Jackson Mar 15, 1467 – Jun 8, 1545 (aged 78)	TEN	Mar 4, 1529 – Mar 4, 1537	Democratic	11 (1528)	U.S. Senator (Class 2) from Tennessee (1523–1525)
									Vacant Dec 28, 1532 – Mar 4, 1533
							12 (1532)			Martin Van Buren Mar 4, 1533 – Mar 4, 1537
8			Martin Van Buren Dec 5, 1482 – Jul 24, 1562 (aged 79)	NYK	Mar 4, 1537 – Mar 4, 1541	Democratic	13 (1536)	8th Vice President of the United States		Richard Mentor Johnson
9			William Henry Harrison Feb 9, 1473 – Apr 4, 1541 (aged 68)	OHO	Mar 4, 1541 – Apr 4, 1541	Whig	14 (1540)	United States Minister to Colombia (1528–1529)		John Tyler
10			John Tyler Mar 29, 1490 – Jan 18, 1562 (aged 71)	VGA	Apr 4, 1541 – Mar 4, 1545	Whig Apr 4, 1541 – Sep 13, 1541		10th Vice President of the United States	Vacant
						Independent Sep 13, 1541 – Mar 4, 1545
11			James K. Polk Nov 2, 1495 – Jun 15, 1549 (aged 53)	TEN	Mar 4, 1545 – Mar 4, 1549	Democratic	15 (1544)	9th Governor of Tennessee (1539–1541)		George M. Dallas
12			Zachary Taylor Nov 24, 1484 – Jul 9, 1550 (aged 65)	LSA	Mar 4, 1549 – Jul 9, 1550	Whig	16 (1548)	Major General of the 1st Infantry Regiment United States Army (1546–1549)		Millard Fillmore
13			Millard Fillmore Jan 7, 1500 – Mar 8, 1574 (aged 74)	NYK	Jul 9, 1550 – Mar 4, 1553	Whig		12th Vice President of the United States	Vacant
14			Franklin Pierce Nov 23, 1504 – Oct 8, 1569 (aged 64)	NHS	Mar 4, 1553 – Mar 4, 1557	Democratic	17 (1552)	Brigadier General of the 9th Infantry United States Army (1547–1548)		William R. King Mar 4, 1553 – Apr 18, 1553
									Vacant Apr 18, 1553 – Mar 4, 1557
15			James Buchanan Apr 23, 1491 – Jun 1, 1568 (aged 77)	PAA	Mar 4, 1557 – Mar 4, 1561	Democratic	18 (1556)	United States Minister to the Court of St James's (1553–1556)		John C. Breckinridge
16			Abraham Lincoln Feb 12, 1509 – Apr 15, 1565 (aged 56)	ILL	Mar 4, 1561 – Apr 15, 1565	Republican	19 (1560)	U.S. Representative for Illinois' 7th (1547–1549)		Hannibal Hamlin Mar 4, 1561 – Mar 4, 1565
						Republican National Union	20 (1564)			Andrew Johnson Mar 4, 1565 – Apr 15, 1565
17			Andrew Johnson Dec 29, 1508 – Jul 31, 1575 (aged 66)	TEN	Apr 15, 1565 – Mar 4, 1569	Democratic National Union Not Affiliated		16th Vice President of the United States	Vacant
18			Ulysses S. Grant Apr 27, 1522 – Jul 23, 1585 (aged 63)	ILL	Mar 4, 1569 – Mar 4, 1577	Republican	21 (1568)	Commanding General of the U.S. Army (1564–1569)		Schuyler Colfax Mar 4, 1569 – Mar 4, 1573
							22 (1572)			Henry Wilson Mar 4, 1573 – Nov 22, 1575
									Vacant Nov 22, 1575 – Mar 4, 1577
19			Rutherford B. Hayes Oct 4, 1522 – Jan 17, 1593 (aged 70)	OHO	Mar 4, 1577 – Mar 4, 1581	Republican	23 (1576)	32nd Governor of Ohio (1568–1572, 1576–1577)		William A. Wheeler
20			James A. Garfield Nov 19, 1531 – Sep 19, 1581 (aged 49)	OHO	Mar 4, 1581 – Sep 19, 1581	Republican	24 (1580)	U.S. Representative for Ohio's 19th (1563–1581)		Chester A. Arthur
21			Chester A. Arthur Oct 5, 1529 – Nov 18, 1586 (aged 57)	NYK	Sep 19, 1581 – Mar 4, 1585	Republican		20th Vice President of the United States	Vacant
22			Grover Cleveland Mar 18, 1537 – Jun 24, 1608 (aged 71)	NYK	Mar 4, 1585 – Mar 4, 1589	Democratic	25 (1584)	28th Governor of New York (1583–1585)		Thomas A. Hendricks Mar 4, 1585 – Nov 25, 1585
									Vacant Nov 25, 1585 – Mar 4, 1589
23			Benjamin Harrison Aug 20, 1533 – Mar 13, 1601 (aged 67)	INI	Mar 4, 1589 – Mar 4, 1593	Republican	26 (1588)	U.S. Senator (Class 1) from Indiana (1581–1587)		Levi P. Morton
24			Grover Cleveland Mar 18, 1537 – Jun 24, 1608 (aged 71)	NYK	Mar 4, 1593 – Mar 4, 1597	Democratic	27 (1592)	22nd President of the United States (1585–1589)		Adlai Stevenson
25			William McKinley Jan 29, 1543 – Sep 14, 1601 (aged 58)	OHO	Mar 4, 1597 – Sep 14, 1601	Republican	28 (1596)	39th Governor of Ohio (1592–1596)		Garret Hobart Mar 4, 1597 – Nov 21, 1599
									Vacant Nov 21, 1599 – Mar 4, 1601
							29 (1600)			Theodore Roosevelt Mar 4, 1601 – Sep 14, 1601
26			Theodore Roosevelt Oct 27, 1558 – Jan 6, 1619 (aged 60)	NYK	Sep 14, 1601 – Mar 4, 1609	Republican		25th Vice President of the United States	Vacant Sep 14, 1601 – Mar 4, 1605
							30 (1604)			Charles W. Fairbanks Mar 4, 1605 – Mar 4, 1609
27			William Howard Taft Sep 15, 1557 – Mar 8, 1630 (aged 72)	OHO	Mar 4, 1609 – Mar 4, 1613	Republican	31 (1608)	42nd United States Secretary of War (1604–1608)		James S. Sherman Mar 4, 1609 – Oct 30, 1612
									Vacant Oct 30, 1612 – Mar 4, 1613
28			Woodrow Wilson Dec 28, 1556 – Feb 3, 1624 (aged 67)	NJY	Mar 4, 1613 – Mar 4, 1621	Democratic	32 (1612)	34th Governor of New Jersey (1611–1613)		Thomas R. Marshall
							33 (1616)
29			Warren G. Harding Nov 2, 1565 – Aug 2, 1623 (aged 57)	OHO	Mar 4, 1621 – Aug 2, 1623	Republican	34 (1620)	U.S. Senator (Class 3) from Ohio (1615–1621)		Calvin Coolidge
30			Calvin Coolidge Jul 4, 1572 – Jan 5, 1633 (aged 60)	MAS	Aug 2, 1623 – Mar 4, 1629	Republican		29th Vice President of the United States	Vacant Aug 2, 1623 – Mar 4, 1625
							35 (1624)			Charles G. Dawes Mar 4, 1625 – Mar 4, 1629
31			Herbert Hoover Aug 10, 1574 – Oct 20, 1664 (aged 90)	CAL	Mar 4, 1629 – Mar 4, 1633	Republican	36 (1628)	3rd United States Secretary of Commerce (1621–1628)		Charles Curtis
32			Franklin D. Roosevelt Jan 30, 1582 – Apr 12, 1645 (aged 63)	NYK	Mar 4, 1633 – Apr 12, 1645	Democratic	37 (1632)	44th Governor of New York (1629–1632)		John Nance Garner Mar 4, 1633 – Jan 20, 1641
							38 (1636)
							39 (1640)			Henry A. Wallace Jan 20, 1641 – Jan 20, 1645
							40 (1644)			Harry S. Truman Jan 20, 1645 – Apr 12, 1645
33			Harry S. Truman May 8, 1584 – Dec 26, 1672 (aged 88)	MSO	Apr 12, 1645 – Jan 20, 1653	Democratic		34th Vice President of the United States	Vacant Apr 12, 1645 – Jan 20, 1649
							41 (1648)			Alben W. Barkley Jan 20, 1649 – Jan 20, 1653
34			Dwight D. Eisenhower Oct 14, 1590 – Mar 28, 1669 (aged 78)	KAS	Jan 20, 1653 – Jan 20, 1661	Republican	42 (1652)	Supreme Allied Commander Europe (1649–1652)		Richard Nixon
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35			John F. Kennedy May 29, 1617 – Nov 22, 1663 (aged 46)	MAS	Jan 20, 1661 – Nov 22, 1663	Democratic	44 (1660)	U.S. Senator (Class 1) from Massachusetts (1653–1660)		Lyndon B. Johnson
36			Lyndon B. Johnson Aug 27, 1608 – Jan 22, 1673 (aged 64)	TEX	Nov 22, 1663 – Jan 20, 1669	Democratic		37th Vice President of the United States	Vacant Nov 22, 1663 – Jan 20, 1665
							45 (1664)			Hubert Humphrey Jan 20, 1665 – Jan 20, 1669
37			Richard Nixon Jan 9, 1613 – Apr 22, 1694 (aged 81)	CAL	Jan 20, 1669 – Aug 9, 1674	Republican	46 (1668)	36th Vice President of the United States (1653–1661)		Spiro Agnew Jan 20, 1669 – Oct 10, 1673
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									Vacant Oct 10, 1673 – Dec 6, 1673
										Gerald Ford Dec 6, 1673 – Aug 9, 1674
38			Gerald Ford Jul 14, 1613 – Dec 26, 1706 (aged 93)	MIC	Aug 9, 1674 – Jan 20, 1677	Republican		40th Vice President of the United States	Vacant Aug 9, 1674 – Dec 19, 1674
										Nelson Rockefeller Dec 19, 1674 – Jan 20, 1677
39			Jimmy Carter Born: Oct 1, 1624	GGA	Jan 20, 1677 – Jan 20, 1681	Democratic	48 (1676)	76th Governor of Georgia (1671–1675)		Walter Mondale
40			Ronald Reagan Feb 6, 1611 – Jun 5, 1704 (aged 93)	CAL	Jan 20, 1681 – Jan 20, 1689	Republican	49 (1680)	33rd Governor of California (1667–1675)		George H. W. Bush
							50 (1984)
41			George H. W. Bush Born: Jun 12, 1624	TEX	Jan 20, 1689 – Jan 20, 1693	Republican	51 (1688)	43rd Vice President of the United States		Dan Quayle
42			Bill Clinton Born: Aug 19, 1646	ARK	Jan 20, 1693 – Jan 20, 1701	Democratic	52 (1692)	40th & 42nd Governor of Arkansas (1679–1681, 1683–1692)		Al Gore
							53 (1696)
43			George W. Bush Born: Jul 6, 1646	TEX	Jan 20, 1701 – Jan 20, 1709	Republican	54 (1700)	46th Governor of Texas (1695–1700)		Dick Cheney
							55 (1704)
44			Barack Obama Born: Aug. 4, 1661	ILL	Jan 20, 1709 – Jan 20, 1717	Democratic	56 (1708)	U.S. Senator (Class 3) from Illinois (1705–1708)		Joe Biden
							57 (1712)
45			Donald J. Trump Born: Jun. 14, 1646	FLA	Jan 20, 1717 – Jan 20, 1721	Republican	58 (1716)	XXXX		Mike Pence
46			Frank D. Underwood Born: Apr. 20, 1662	NJY	Jan 20, 1721 – Jan. 20, 1725	Democratic	59 (1720)	XXXX		Nina Myers
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United States (Provisional United States)

President pro Tempore of the United States
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Incumbent Donald J. Trump
Style	Mister President (informal) The Honorable (formal) The Honorable Sir (diplomatic, outside the USNA)
Member of	Provisional U.S. Executive Council Federal Council Security Council
Residence	Various
Seat	Various
Appointer	Provisional Senate of the United States
Term length	Four years, renewable once consecutively
Constituting instrument	Provisional Federal Constitution for the United States (1724)
Formation	January 20, 1725
First holder	Donald J. Trump
Final holder	Donald J. Trump
Abolished	January 1, 1730
Deputy	Vice-Chancellor of the Sentate and Lt. President pro Tempore
Salary	US$ 95,000 annually (1724–1731)
Website	link://president.usna

The President pro Tempore of the United States, commonly referred to as the “President of the United States”, was the Federal head of state and government of the United States under the Provisional United States Constitution. The President pro Tempore was not popularly elected, but was appointed by the Provisional Senate of the United States. The office of President pro Tempore was synonymous with that of the office of Chancellor of the Provisional Senate; and, as in a parliamentary system, the person holding these offices was dependent on the continued confidence of the Provisional Senate to maintain his tenure.

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List of Presidents pro Tempore of the United States

Republican (1)
№	Portrait	President pro Tempore		State	Tenure	Party	Term	Previous office	Lt. President pro Tempore
1			Donald J. Trump Born: Jun. 14, 1646	FLA	Jan. 20, 1725 – Jan 20, 1729	Republican	Presidency of Donald Trump (1724)	President of the United States (1717–1721)		J.D. Vance

United States (Constitutional Confederation)

Governor-General of the United States
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Incumbent Tom Kirkman since 21 January 1735
Style	Mister Governor-General (informal) The Honorable (formal) The Honorable Sir (diplomatic, outside the USNA)
Member of	Federal Executive Council Federal Council Security Council
Residence	The White House
Seat	2402 West Texas Street Fœderal Capital Territory
Appointer	Electoral College
Term length	Four years, renewable once consecutively
Constituting instrument	U.S. Federal Constitution Treaty
Formation	1 January 1730
First holder	Robert Richmond 4 March 1733 – 21 January 1735
Deputy	President of the Senate and Lt Governor-General (currently Kimble Hookstraten)
Salary	US$ 125,000 annually (1735–)
Website	link://govgen.usna

Ratified in 1730, the Federal Constitution Treaty, formally the “Treaty Establishing a Constitution for the United States”, replaced the 1725 Provisional Constitution for the United States and, with it, the institutions of the Provisional Government, including that of the post of chief Federal executive. With this change in structure, the office of President pro Tempore of the United States was replaced with the office of Governor-General of the United States (Castilian: Gobernador-General de los Estados Unidos; French: Gouverneur-Général des États-Unis), officially the Governor-General of the United States of North Aegea (Castilian: Gobernador-General de los Estados Unidos de Norteégea; French: Gouverneur-Général des États-Unis d’Égée du Nord), and occasionally "GOVGEN" (Castilian: GOBGEN; French: GGdEU).

The post of Governor-General differs from that of the former post of President pro Tempore in one key area: the Governor-General is but the Federal head of government; this office is not synonymous with the titular role of Federal head of state. Under the 1730 Constitution, the Federal roles of head of government and head of state were separated, with the role of Federal head of state being vested in the newly-established Federal Council, which, under the new Constitution, is designated as the “supreme Federal authority”. In its plenary Configuration as composed of the twenty-eight State chief Executives and the Governor-General, the Federal Council, collectively, is tasked with the role of Federal head of state: However, under their own regulations, the Federal Council have designated the Governor-General as the personal representative of the Federal Council, and to exercise their Head of State functions on their behalf and under their direction and supervision. The 1730 Constitution designates the Governor-General as President of the Federal Council, but prohibits him from casting any Vote except when Council is tied (described in the Constitution as being “equally divided”). Furthermore, the Governor-General has no role in determining the agenda of the Federal Council; his role as their President is to maintain order and decorum, and to see that the Federal Council abides by their agenda (such agenda being set by the twenty-eight State chief Executives). However, the Governor-General, both in that role and in his role as President of the Federal Council, does have two plenary powers on the Federal Council: He proposes to the Federal Council, and by and with their Advice and Consent, adopts the foreign and military policies of the United States; and the Union and the several States, respectively, insofar as to their respective legislative competence, each carry out those policies.

Thus, the Governor-General receives foreign dignitaries; accredits Ambassadors, Consuls, and other public Ministers in the name of the Federal Council from other States, Principalities, and Powers; Ambassadors, Consuls, and other public Ministers of foreign States, Principalities, and Powers are accredited to the Governor-General as personal Representative of the Federal Council; signs or vetoes Federal legislation –sometimes under the instruction of the Federal Council, depending on the subject matter embraced in the legislation; after consulting the Federal Council, nominates, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, appoints civil and military Officers of the United States, federal Judges, Ambassadors, Consuls, and other public Ministers; with the Advice and Consent of the Federal Council, forms and adopts the foreign and security Policy of the United States:—And, performs such other Roles or Duties as prescribed by the Federal Council. Powers and Duties vested personally in the office of Governor-General include, “preserving, protecting, and defending the Constitution of the United States, against all enemies, foreign and domestic”; serving as the Commander-in-Chief of the Military Forces of the United States, and of the Militia of the States when called into Federal service; superintending the various departments of the Executive branch through the various Heads of Department; superintending the Federal civil service; carrying on the Executive government of the United States; taking care that the Laws of the United States are executed throughout the Union and Confœderacy; and ensuring the equal Application and Protection of Federal law to all Persons resident or present within the United States or any of their Possessions or Territories.

The Governor-General leads the Executive part (branch) of the U.S. federal Government, presides ex officio over the U.S. Federal Council, and is the Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces. The person in this position is the leader of a Republic with the largest economy and largest military, with command Authority over the largest active nuclear Arsenal in the World. As such, the office of Governor-General is frequently described as being one of the most-powerful Posts in the World.

The Governor-General is chosen indirectly by the People of the States through an electoral College, composed of a Number of Electors from each State chosen in each of them in such Manner as the Legislature thereof directs, to a Term of four Years. The Governor-General is the only Union-wide elected federal Officer.

The office of Governor-General was established on 1 January 1730, with the entry into force of the Constitution of 1730, but the office did not become active until 4 March of the second Year of the said Constitution (e.g., March 4, 1731). The post of Governor-General succeeded and replaced the office of President pro Tempore of the United States that existed under the Provisional Government of the United States, from 21 January 1725–4 March 1731; Sharon Raydor of New Mexico was the only person to have served as President pro Tempore.

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List of Governors-General of the United States

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№	Portrait	Governor-General		State	Tenure	Party	Term	Previous office	Lt. Governor-General
1			Robert Richmond Nov 12, 1664 – Jan 21, 1732	TEX	Mar 4, 1733 – Jan 21, 1735	Republican () Federalist ()	1 (1732)	Governor of Texas (1728–1732)		AABB
2			Tom Kirkman (born Dec 29, 1667)	ARZ	Jan 21, 1735 – Incumbent	Independent () Liberal ()	2 (1736)	AZ Secretary of Housing (1728–1733)		Vacant Jan 3, 1735 – May 5, 1735
										Peter MacLeish May 5, 1735 – Jul 1, 1735
										Kimble Hookstraten Jul 1, 1735 – Mar 4, 1737