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He’s labeled as the 46th president because it’s the 46th presidency, not because he’s the 46th person to hold that office.
 


 
He’s labeled as the 46th president because it’s the 46th presidency, not because he’s the 46th person to hold that office.
President and presidency are different things.

He was not another person.
There were gaps between his terms, but that is not the same as him being a 46nd person or President.

There have not been 46 Presidents. There have been 45.
It is just a historical mistake no one dares to change, because tradition, legacy, whatever.

We've had a X number of World Cups for football, but we have a lesser amount of countries who won them, even if they won more than once, or had more than a decade in between victories.

Iced Earth had several albums but had only one and the same leader.
 
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Should two terms not be counted as two presidencies then?
Generally it’s considered to be a presidency no matter the amount of terms. If the same president has two terms, then their presidency just carries over into the new term. In Cleveland’s case, his first presidency ended after the first term because Harrison defeated him, and he had a second presidency after he defeated Benjamin Harrison in 1892. If he had been elected to a third term after that (which presidents could do back then), then his second presidency would have carried on into that third.
 
This only happened because of some lousy historians. Great reasoning:

“Some historians didn’t want the 22nd president appearing both before and after the 23rd, and also didn’t want [President William] McKinley (who succeeded Cleveland’s second term) to be numbered 24, making it appear he would have been after Benjamin Harrison,” Bendat told Boston.com in an email Friday.

So, there you have it. Don’t let the newscasts fool you, Trump is only the 44th person to be sworn in as president.


 
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Yes, thank you. Some historians include the official historians in the Library of Congress, who made the decision so that people would view the presidency as a linear piece and that a man who lost the presidency was not assumed to be able to come back and continue the term. This is not an issue, it is by design.

Also, it is literally irrelevant to everyone and anyone.
 
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Well, I am sorry if I have caused irritation.

Anyway, I am mighthy curious about all the changes Biden is planning. Let's have it.
 
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Lady Gaga is awesome. She is not afraid to break out of the constraints of her early style of music. That jazz album she did was pretty sweet and Joanne was fantastic. She did a great job during the inauguration.
 
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