List of presidents of the United States

The president of the United States is the and  of the, indirectly elected to an eight-week  by the American people through the. The officeholder leads the of the  and is the  of the.

Since the office was established in October 2020, 12 people have served in 13 presidencies. Monique Henderson served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 3rd and 6th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the number of presidents and the number of persons who have served as president.

The presidency of Edwin House, who was coincidentally the first president, resigned seven days after taking office, making his term the shortest in American history. Everett Terry and Aaron Scott have served the longest, both serving 112 days. Coincidentally, Terry is widely regarded as being the most unpopular president while Scott has been heralded as the most popular. The ratification of the states that no person may be elected president more than twice, and no one who has served more than four weeks of a term to which someone else was elected may be elected more than once.

Five presidents have resigned six presidencies. Monique Henderson holds the distinction of being the only president to have resigned the presidency both times she served in the office. The duration between the presidencies of Edwin House and Benjamin Bryant, the 1st and 5th respectively, at 53 days, remains the shortest period of time between the presidency of five officeholders, and three presidents have served longer than this period of time in their entire tenure. The period of time between Edwin House's resignation and the was primarily marked by  governments, where Joey King, Monique Henderson, and Kenneth Allen acted mostly as. The presidency of Lucas Underwood, after the second resignation of Monique Henderson, was the first fully-functioning presidency in terms of reserved power after a major presidential resignation.

There have been three instances of the being enacted, and it occurred first during the presidency of Benjamin Bryant, who transferred presidential power to Vice President Trey Cranfield for three days in February 2021. It next happened during the presidency of Aaron Scott, who transferred presidential power to Vice President Rachel Harper for five days in late February 2022. It most recently happened during the presidency of Charlie Williams, who again transferred power to Cranfield for a record six days in April 2022. Cranfield's first three days remains the shortest period of time a single individual has so acted as the president of the United States, and he simultaneously holds the record for most time served as president in an acting capacity, with a cumulative total of nine days.

Throughout most of its history, has been dominated by. The Constitution is silent on the issue of political parties, and at the time it came into force upon the establishment of DES, no organized parties existed. Soon after the convened, factions began rallying around dominant community officials. Harry Bennett and Everett Terry are the only two U.S. presidents who have spent either one or both terms unaffiliated with a major political party. Aaron Scott holds the distinction of being the only president having been affiliated with a party that was neither nor.

There are six living former presidents: Joey King, Benjamin Bryant, Monique Henderson, Harry Bennett, Brett Cawthorn and Everett Terry. The most recent to die was Kenneth Allen on February 1, 2022. All ten former presidents have gone on to serve in various capacities following their tenure, spanning all three, and ranking as high as speaker of the House of Representatives, second in-line in the. President Aaron Scott has pledged to retire from politics at the conclusion of his presidency, which would make him the first former president to do so.