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United States

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Longest Tenured Presidents

This list features the American Presidents with the longest tenures in history.

RANK

PRESIDENTS

YEARS IN OFFICE

TENURE

1

Franklin D. Roosevelt

12 years, 39 days

1933–1945

2

Dwight D. Eisenhower

8 years, 165 days

1953–1961

3

James Madison

8 years, 104 days

1809–1817

4

Woodrow Wilson

8 years, 93 days

1913–1921

5

Ronald Reagan

8 years, 93 days

1981–1989

6

Ulysses S. Grant

8 years, 54 days

1869–1877

7

Thomas Jefferson

8 years, 42 days

1801–1809

8

James Monroe

8 years, 0 days

1817–1825

9

Grover Cleveland

8 years, 0 days

1885–1889

1893–1897

10

George Washington

8 years, 0 days

1789–1797

11

Harry S. Truman

8 years, 0 days

1945–1953

12

Bill Clinton

8 years, 0 days

1993–2001

13

George W. Bush

8 years, 0 days

2001–2009

14

Barack Obama

8 years, 0 days

2009–2017

15

Theodore Roosevelt

7 years, 171 days

1901–1909

16

Andrew Jackson

7 years, 44 days

1829–1837


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References

Statista. (2024). Length of every U.S. president's term. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1035607/length-every-us-presidents-term/ [Accessed 1 December 2025]. World Atlas. (2024). Longest serving United States presidents. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/longest-serving-united-states-presidents.html [Accessed 1 December 2025]. White House History. (2024). The presidents timeline. https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-presidents-timeline [Accessed 1 December 2025].
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