What is the number that the next president will have?
Do they usually count Cleveland twice when they give out the presidential number?
According to a ruling by the Department of State (I don’t have the details) Cleveland is indeed counted twice.
–World Almanac
43, As I recall Cleavland is counted twice 20 & 22, I think, but I don’t have a chart with me.
Cleveland is 22 and 24.
As Grandpa Simpson said, “I was spanked by Grover Cleveland on two nonconsecutive occasions!”
And just to head this one off at the pass, David Rice Atchison, “President for a Day” is not on the list.
Here is the Senate’s explanation why Atchison did not inherit the presidency on March 4, 1849.
Do they have one regarding the guys who were president under the Articles of Confederation?
I think it’s something along the lines of “Even Rutherford B. Hayes had ten times more political acumen than those schmendriks so they don’t count.”
To be more accurate with an actual WAG, I believe it’s because they weren’t Presidents of the United States, but Presidents of the Continental Congresses - they had authority over the governing body, but not the political confederation.
Olentzero, you have it precisely. Refering to the Articles of Confederation, we note the following language in Article IX:
This officer presided over the Congress. Given that the Articles did not specifically seperate the executive from the legislature, one could assert that this person was the ‘President’ of the United States, but really this person could be considered more the Speaker of the Congress than the Chief of State.
If Congress was not in session, the country was ruled by a “Committee of the States”, which had one person from each state. Thus, the country was really run by a committee, either of the whole during session, or of the states when Congress was not in session.
OK, thanks for the information.