President Biden announced on Sunday that he was withdrawing from the presidential race, making him the first president since 1968 not to seek reelection.
Biden made the announcement Sunday afternoon with just 183 days left in his term and 29 days until the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 19, 2024.
On March 31, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that he would not seek reelection with 295 days remaining in his term and 148 days until the party convention.
Previously, President Harry S. Truman announced on March 29, 1952, that he would not seek reelection, and Calvin Coolidge had also announced on August 2, 1927, that he would not seek reelection.
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President Biden announced Sunday that he was withdrawing from the presidential race against former President Trump. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Only three presidents in American history have pledged to serve only one term and kept it.
President Rutherford B. Hayes announced in advance that he would serve only one term, after which he retired to his home, Spiegel Grove, in Fremont, Ohio, in 1881.
President James Buchanan was one of those presidents who pledged to serve only one term, but at the time the country was facing turmoil over slavery and no one asked him to retract that pledge.
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In the end, President James K. Polk kept his promise not to seek a second term, and was succeeded by Zachary Taylor, a hero of the Mexican-American War and a rival Whig whom Polk despised.
