President Biden announced Sunday that he would drop out of the presidential race, becoming the first president since 1968 not to seek reelection.
Biden made the announcement Sunday afternoon, just 183 days into his term and 29 days before the Democratic National Convention on August 19, 2024.
On March 31, 1968, then-President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that he would not run for office with 295 days left in his term and 148 days until the party convention.
Prior to that, President Harry S. Truman announced he would not seek another term on March 29, 1952, and Calvin Coolidge announced he would not seek reelection on August 2, 1927.
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President Biden announced Sunday that he was dropping out of the presidential race against former President Trump. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
In American history, only three presidents made and kept their promises to serve only one term.
President Rutherford B. Hayes announced in advance that he would serve only one term, and when that term ended he retired to Spiegel Grove, his home in Fremont, Ohio, in 1981.
President James Buchanan was another president who promised to serve only one term, and at the time, the nation was facing unrest over slavery and no one asked him to rescind his promise.
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President James K. Polk eventually kept his promise not to run for a second term. He was succeeded by Zachary Taylor, a hero of the Mexican War and a member of the opposing Whig Party, whom Polk also despised.
