Who Was The Last Potus.............

[10ClarionSt]

.....to win 2 successive elections? Think about it very carefully.

[jim360]

Umm.

Obama? I'm struggling to see why it isn't Obama.

[Spicerack]

I'll bite. Barack Obama?

[ummmm]

Umm.

Obama.

[Spicerack]

Or Roosevelt?

[jim360]

That was my second thought. I suppose the point is that Obama (and Bill Clinton, etc) won the first election when he wasn't POTUS?

[sanmac]

I go along with spicerack.

[MartinMillar]

FD Roosevelt?

[emmie]

Roosevelt

[MartinMillar]

If you are already Potus you cannot win 2 successive elections as you would have already won one to become president and in the US you can only serve 2 terms except in rare occasions

[emmie]

its early brain not functioning.

[Jackdaw33]

Roosevelt won four elections in total before the law was changed to restrict the POTUS to only two terms.

[1ozzy]

I'm going to do a Baldric and say
Who cares ;-/

[royfromaus]

Franklin my dear....

[1ozzy]

Damn!!

[10ClarionSt]

Thanks for the replies folks. Who cares? Some do, some don't. Hey ho. Twas FDR. He won his second successive election in 1940. Then a third successive one in 1944, and, as jackdaw says, the law was changed that restricted it to successive terms.

[1ozzy]

Standing ovation for FDR!!!!

[Spicerack]

Where's my BA then?

[royfromaus]

This is chatterbank, spice...mine is, therefore, the BA

[Peter Pedant]

// Obama (and Bill Clinton, etc) won the first election when he wasn't POTUS?//

roosevelt then

re voted in Jan 1945 and dead by April 1945 and the american people asked
why werent we told ( he was dying )
and ltd the terms to two