There have been 21 U.S. presidents who have won re-election to a second term. The most recent one was Joe Biden, who defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election1.
Trump was the 10th president to fail to win a second term, when he attempted to2.
The other nine presidents who lost their re-election bids were John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, Benjamin Harrison, William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush32.
One U.S. president served two full terms in office non-consecutively. He was Grover Cleveland, who was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. He won the popular vote in 1884, 1888, and 1892, but lost the electoral vote in 1888 to Benjamin Harrison. He is the only president to successfully regain the presidency after leaving it4.
Since 1900, six Democratic presidents have won a second term in office. They were Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama5.
Five Republican presidents have won a second term in office since 1900. They were William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan5.
The 21 U.S. presidents who have won re-election to a second term are:
- George Washington (1789, 1792)
- Thomas Jefferson (1800, 1804)
- James Madison (1808, 1812)
- James Monroe (1816, 1820)
- Andrew Jackson (1828, 1832)
- Abraham Lincoln (1860, 1864)
- Ulysses S. Grant (1868, 1872)
- Grover Cleveland (1884, 1892)
- William McKinley (1896, 1900)
- Woodrow Wilson (1912, 1916)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1932, 1936, 1940, 1944)
- Harry S. Truman (1944, 1948)
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1952, 1956)
- Lyndon B. Johnson (1963, 1964)
- Richard Nixon (1968, 1972)
- Ronald Reagan (1980, 1984)
- Bill Clinton (1992, 1996)
- George W. Bush (2000, 2004)
- Barack Obama (2008, 2012)
- Donald Trump (2016, 2020)
- Joe Biden (2020, 2024)
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