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USA Today: Trump gets 2 terms, but not in a row. Has it happened before?

November 6, 2024 in Recent Media Coverage

White House - Washington D.C. United States of America (taken by Orhan Cam)

With this week’s presidential campaign victory over Vice President Kamala Harris, Donald Trump finds himself in rare company, joining Grover Cleveland as the second chief executive of the United States to be elected to nonconsecutive terms.

Trump – the nation’s 45th president from 2017 to 2021 – is now set to serve a second term, this time as the 47th president.

The first was Grover Cleveland, who served as the 22nd president from 1885 to 1889, followed by a second stint in the White House as the 24th from 1893 to 1897. [continue reading]