For America's 250th anniversary, which U.S. president was elected to four terms?

Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to four terms as U.S. president.

Roosevelt won the presidential elections of 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944. He is the only U.S. president elected to more than two terms and remains the longest-serving president in American history, holding office from March 4, 1933, until his death on April 12, 1945.

His presidency spanned the Great Depression and most of World War II. The New Deal created federal programs addressing banking, employment, relief, and economic recovery. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Roosevelt led the United States through its entry into the global war.

Roosevelt died early in his fourth term and was succeeded by Vice President Harry S. Truman. The Twenty-Second Amendment, ratified in 1951, later limited presidents to two elected terms, with a special exception allowing a president to serve up to ten years in certain circumstances.

George Washington voluntarily left office after two terms, establishing an informal precedent that lasted until Roosevelt’s campaigns. The constitutional two-term limit did not exist during Washington’s presidency.