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Presidents who were elected one time but lost in a bid for a second term were
John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, Benjamin Harrison, William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush. Polk, Hayes, Coolidge, Truman and Lyndon Johnson were elected once but chose not to run again. Theodore Roosevelt who served only a partial first term lost his bid for a third term. Gerald Ford, who completed Nixon's term, lost his only run for the presidency.
Presidents who served one complete term were the following.
John Adams
John Quincy Adams
James K. Polk
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
William H. Taft
Herbert Hoover
Jimmy Carter
George Bush
That's 12 Presidents, not 9.
The only member of a father and son combination to be elected twice was the son, George W. Bush. The father, George H.W. Bush as well as both Adamses were one-term presidents.
Eight. Each term is 4 years. A president can serve a term and then get re-elected one time.
McKinney wasn't elected in 1990. He was dead by 1990.
Some presidents were re-elected and so had more than one inauguration. Presidents who take office due to the death or resignation of the President do not have an inauguration ceremony unless they are later elected to a term of their own. Four presidents never had a inauguration ceremony. FDR had four.
There is only one president on the list of presidents that have not been white due to fact that we only have one black president. Also, this president is Barak Obama.