By the Numbers: U.S. Presidential Second Terms

1

Number of U.S. presidents who served two full terms in office non-consecutively. Grover Cleveland was president from 1885 to 1889 and again from 1893 to 1897.

2

Number of U.S. presidents who took the country to war during their second or subsequent terms. Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt both campaigned on the platform of keeping America out of wars in Europe but were forced to go back on that promise.

3

Number of U.S. presidents who died in office during their second (or later) terms. They are Abraham Lincoln (assassinated), William McKinley (assassinated), and Franklin Roosevelt (died of illness in his fourth term).

6

Number of Republican presidents elected to a second term in office since 1900. William Taft, Herbert Hoover, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush did not win re-election and Warren Harding died in office. The same number of Democrats have been re-elected since 1900.

9

The number of presidents who changed vice presidents between their first and second terms. This was very common in the 1800s. Before 1916, George Washington and James Monroe were the only two-term presidents who did not change their vice presidents.

14

Number of U.S. presidents who served two full terms in office. This includes Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was elected four times but died before finishing his fourth term. Making up the distinguished group are: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

21

Number of U.S. presidents who won election to a second term. This includes four men who assumed the office after the death of the sitting president, and later won election in their own right.

46

The age of Theodore Roosevelt in 1904, the youngest man elected to a second term as president.

53.99

Percentage of the Electoral College vote won by Woodrow Wilson in 1916, securing his second term. He won 277 of 531 Electoral College votes, beating his opponent by only 23 votes. It is the smallest margin of victory for a second-term president.

73

The age of Ronald Reagan in 1984, the oldest man elected to a second term as president.

98.49

Percentage of the Electoral College vote won by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936, securing him a second term. He won 523 votes out of a possible 531. Except for George Washington and James Monroe, who ran almost unopposed to win second terms, it is the largest margin of victory.

100

Percentage of the Electoral College vote won by George Washington 1792, to win a second term.

Source: archives.gov, history.com, presidentsusa.net