President Of The United States Events

1804 Jun 15 The Twelfth Amendment is ratified
The Twelfth Amendment (Amendment XII) to the United States Constitution provides the procedure by which the President and Vice President are elected. It replaced the procedure of the Elec...
1901 Sep 14 Theodore Roosevelt Becomes the 26th President of the United States
McKinley was shot by an anarchist named Leon Czolgosz on September 6, 1901, and died on September 14, putting Roosevelt into the presidency. Roosevelt continued McKinley's cabinet and pro...
1933 Jan 23 The Twentieth Amendment is ratified
The Twentieth Amendment (Amendment XX) to the United States Constitution establishes the beginning and ending of the terms of the elected federal officials. It also deals with scenarios i...
1951 Feb 27 The Twenty-second Amendment is ratified
AMENDMENT XXII Passed by Congress March 21, 1947. Ratified February 27, 1951. Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person wh...
1961 Mar 29 The Twenty-third Amendment is ratified
The Twenty-third Amendment (Amendment XXIII) to the United States Constitution permits the District of Columbia to choose Electors for President and Vice President. The amendment was prop...
1967 Feb 10 The Twenty-fifth Amendment is ratified
The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution deals with succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of...
1974 Aug 9 Richard M. Nixon Resigns the Office of the President of the United States
On March 1, 1974, former aides to the president, known as the "Watergate Seven" — Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, Charles Colson, Gordon C. Strachan, Robert Mardian and Kenneth Parkinson ...
1992 May 5 The Twenty-seventh Amendment is ratified
The Twenty-seventh Amendment (Amendment XXVII) prohibits any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of the Congress from taking effect, until the start of the next set of t...
2011 Nov 17 Ortega-Hernandez Charged with Attempted Assassination
Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, made his first court appearance before a federal magistrate in Pittsburgh on Thursday, one day after he was arrested at a western Pen...