President george.w. bush is listed as our 42nd president, but only 41 men have held the office. Why?

Question

President george.w. bush is listed as our 42nd president, but only 41 men have held the office. Why?

Answer 1

there is actually two answers to this: one is the fact Grover cleveland held the pos. two diff times, and the other is the fact that both President Bush and Jimmy carter are considered "Half" presidents.

Answer 2

One president, Grover Cleveland, was elected to office two nonconsecutive times. So he was counted as president twice, but when a president holds office for 2 or more consecutive terms, he's only counted once. George W. Bush is an example of that.

Answer 3

each prez has a 4 year term in office and they are allowed two terms, so therefore that is the reason why there have only been 42 presidents and president Bush is still our current prez. so only 41 men have held the office without counting our current prez. *make sense?*

Answer 4

Because Grover Cleveland served 2 different terms. Once from 1885-1889 then from 1893-1897

Answer 5

Grover Cleveland was elected as the 22nd & 24th president

Answer 6

one man was the president twice

Answer 7

yeah, there was one president who was president twice.