5 sentences with “presidents”

George Washington, who had been re-elected in 1792 by an overwhelming majority, refused to run for a third term, setting a precedent for future presidents.

Generals Videla and Pinochet - de facto presidents of Argentina and Chile respectively - meeting in Chile in 1978, on the occasion of the signing of the act establishing the basis for negotiations over the Beagle Channel.

Southern planters exerted a powerful influence on the federal government. Seven of the first eleven presidents were slave owners, and more than half of the Supreme Court justices who served from its inception until the Civil War came from slave states.

The presidents who followed Washington shared the first president's pedigree. With the exception of John Adams, who was from Massachusetts, all of the early presidents - Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe - were members of Virginia's aristocratic slave-owning elite.

Historians call the years between 1815 and 1828 the "Era of Good Feelings" and note the "Virginia dynasty" of the era, since the two presidents who followed Jefferson - James Madison and James Monroe - came from his home state. Like him, they owned slaves and represented the Democratic-Republican Party.