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Only Two Terms for President
Theodore Roosevelt was the first President to seriously challenge the two-term limit precedent set by George Washington. When he was criticized for running a third time in 1912, he asserted that technically the 1904 campaign was his first true run for the Presidency. He originally took office in 1901 after President William McKinley was assassinated. Roosevelt lost the election.
Untitled. [Anti-Third Term Principle], cartoon by Clifford Berryman, October 1, 1912, Records of the U.S. Senate Collection |