By the spring conventions in the required nine states had ratified, and the Constitution could become law. But with powerful, populous, and highly divided Virginia and New York yet to vote, the legitimacy of the new national system had not yet been fully resolved. A Biography of John Hancock.
Abraham Lincoln was elected for two terms, but only served one of them in full. &nbsp;His first term began on March 4, 1861. &nbsp;He was re-elected in 1864 and began his second term on March 4, 1865, but was assassinated after only 42 days, dying in office on April 15, 1865.
President Barack Obama won re-election for a second term in 2012. Andrew Jackson served two full terms of president of the United States. Almost half of former US presidents served more than one term. James Madison served two full terms as president. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died at the beginning of his fourth term. The first US president, George Washington, served two complete terms.