The United States

Election System and Famous PresidentsBy Holly Walker

When are US elections?

• Every four years, the people of the United States choose a President. The election takes place on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

Who can become the President?• To run for president, you have to be born in

the United States and be at least 35 years old. You can only be President for eight years (that's two four-year terms.) Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only person to be President for more than two terms.

Political Parties

• While there are many political parties in the USA, the two major parties in the US are the Republicans and the Democrats.

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George Washington

• General in the Revolutionary War against Great Britain

• 1st President and “Father of the USA”• President from 1789-1797

Abraham Lincoln

• 16th President • Assassinated in 1865• President during the American Civil War• Ended slavery in the United States

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)• 32nd President and the only president to be

president more than twice -- He was elected 4 times

• President during the Great Depression and World War II

• Paralyzed from the waist down after an illness

John F. Kennedy (JFK)

• 35th President from 1961 to his assassination in 1963

• 1st Catholic President• Created the Peace Corps• "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."

Barack Obama

• 44th (and current) President• First African American President• Democrat• Born in Hawaii, his mother is American and his father was Kenyan