Donald Trump is the second US president after Grover Cleveland to win two non-consecutive terms

File photos of former US Presidents Grover Cleveland and Donald Trump. | Photo credit: AP

Donald Trump was elected as the 47th President of the United States on Wednesday (November 6, 2024), defeating Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. With a victory in Wisconsin, he secured the 270 electoral votes needed for the presidency.

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Is Donald Trump the first person to become president of the USA twice in a row? NO.

He is the second president in U.S. history to serve non-consecutive terms. The first was Grover Cleveland, who served in the White House twice, from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897.

Who is Grover Cleveland?

Grover Cleveland was the 22nd President after the 1884 election and the 24th President after the 1892 campaign.

Grover Cleveland, the first Democrat elected after the Civil War, was the first president to leave the White House, returning four years later for a second term.

Cleveland was governor of New York when he was nominated by the Democratic Party for president in 1884. He lost the 1888 presidential race to Republican former Senator Benjamin Harrison of Indiana, becoming the only incumbent to date to win and lose the popular vote in the Electoral College.

He was re-elected as president in 1893, defeating Harrison in the first duel of major party candidates who had served as president.

List of United States presidents who served consecutive terms

1. George Washington

2. Thomas Jefferson

3. James Madison

4. James Monroe

5. Andrew Jackson

6. Ulysses S. Grant

7. Woodrow Wilson

8. Franklin Roosevelt

9. Dwight Eisenhower

10. Ronald Reagan

11. Bill Clinton

12. George W Bush

13. Barack Obama.