A president is a leader of an organization, company, trade union, university, or country.
Etymologically, a president is one who presides, who sits in leadership (from Latin pre- "before" + sedere "to sit"; giving the term praeses). Originally, the term referred to the presiding officer of a ceremony or meeting (i.e., chairman), but today it most commonly refers to an official. Among other things, president today is a common title for the heads of state of most republics, whether popularly elected, chosen by the legislature or by a special electoral college.
Presidents in countries with a democratic or representative form of government are usually elected for a specified period of time and in some cases may be re-elected by the same process by which they are appointed, i.e. in many nations, periodic popular elections. The powers vested in such presidents vary considerably. Some presidencies, such as that of Ireland, are largely ceremonial, whereas other systems vest the President with...
Editors: Timothy P. Suddard - Grassroots motorsports magazine - 1985;
People With This Title: Collin Cohen - NorthStar; Charles H. Giancarlo - Cisco - Linksys; Lloyd Frink - Zillow.com; Ted Sarandos - Video Software Dealers Association; Dan Maydan - Applied Materials - Dec 1993 - Apr 2003; Pierre Lamond - Coherent; Pierre Lamond - Advent; Greg Dougherty - SDL; Jeff Palmer - GetThere; John Stuppy - Tutorvista;
Characters With This Occupation: Dan Conway James Taggart Myrtle Anagnostou Laura Roslin Gaius Baltar Richard Adar Amber Ericcs President Blake Vice President Becker Characters of This Rank: President of the United Federation Fictional characters with this job: Dan Conway - Phoenix-Durango Railroad; Ellis Wyatt - Wyatt Oil; James Taggart - Taggart Transcontinental; Mr. Mowen - Amalgamated Switch and Signal Company, Inc.; Orren Boyle - Associated Steel; Dagny Taggart's Father - Taggart Transcontinental; Francisco d'Anconia's Father - d'Anconia Copper; Mr. Ayers - Ayers Music Publishing Company; President of United Locomotive Works - United Locomotive Works; John Sheridan - Interstellar Alliance;
Officeholders: Karolos Papoulias - President of Greece - Greece - Mar 12, 2005; Felipe Calderón - President of Mexico - Mexico - Dec 1, 2006; Pervez Musharraf - President of Pakistan; Grover Cleveland - President of the United States - United States of America - Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897; Grover Cleveland - President of the United States - United States of America - Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889; Gerald Ford - President of the United States - United States of America - Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977; Benjamin Harrison - President of the United States - United States of America - Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893; Harry S. Truman - President of the United States - United States of America - Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953; Lyndon B. Johnson - President of the United States - United States of America - Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969; James Garfield - President of the United States - United States of America - United States of America - Mar 5, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881;
Offices: President of Abkhazia President of Adygea President of Afghanistan President of Algeria President of Angola President of Anjouan President of Argentina President of Armenia President of Austria President of Azerbaijan Appointees: Luisa Diogo - Minister - 1999 - 2005; Luisa Diogo - Prime minister - Mozambique - 2004; Luisa Diogo - 1994 - 1999; Indonesia - Dec 2005;
Quotations About This Subject: Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic. When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.; But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.;
Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time. Being a President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.; When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.; No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.;
I'm the only president you've got. When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal. Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.;
Members with this title: Kenton County Heart Association - Andrew W. Clark - 1956 - 1956; Penya Chescandinavia - Daniel Cervera; B’nai B’rith International - Alfred M. Cohen - 1925 - 1938; B’nai B’rith International - Label A. Katz - 1959 - 1965; B’nai B’rith International - Henry Monsky - 1938 - 1847; B’nai B’rith International - William A. Wexler - 1965 - 1971; B’nai B’rith International - Adolf Kraus - 1905 - 1925; B’nai B’rith International - Frank Goldman - 1947 - 1953; B’nai B’rith International - Philip Morris Klutznick - 1953 - 1959; Inner Actions-Committee - Otto Warburg - 1911 - 1920;
Governors: Rainbow Days Inc. - Fred Halfpap; UBmatrix - Sunir Kapoor - President; Devon and Cornwall Migration Committee - Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor; Suez Canal Company - Ferdinand de Lesseps - 1855 - Dec 7, 1894; Suez Canal Company - Auguste-Louis-Albéric, prince d'Arenberg - Aug 3, 1896 - 1913; Suez Canal Company - Charles Jonnart - May 19, 1913 - 1927; Compagnie Universelle du Canal Inter-océanique de Panama - Ferdinand de Lesseps - 1880 - Feb 4, 1889; Royal Geographical Society - Francis Younghusband - 1919; Mount Everest Committee - Francis Younghusband - 1921; American Geographical Society - George Bancroft - Feb 21, 1852 - 1854;
Leaders: Ken Givens - Southern United States Trade Association; Ken Givens - Southern Association of State Departments of Agriculture; Tom Avery - President; Samuel C. Eastman - New Hampshire Bar Association; Samuel C. Eastman - New Hampshire Historical Society; Stan Fletcher - Tempest Plus Marketing Group; Alfred Marchev - Republic Aviation Company; Don Schoendorfer - Free Wheelchair Mission - Founder and President - 2001; Ali bin Asjadi - Mr - Aug 8, 2010 - 2012; Eliphalet Nott Potter - Union College - President - 1871 - 1884;
People With This Profession: Chuck Hazelcorn Francesco Paolo Fulci Projects: Dialog spin-out as separate corporation - Roger K. Summit - 1982 - 1982; Stanford Initiative on Improving K-12 Education - John L. Hennessy;
Leaders: Daisaku Ikeda - Soka Gakkai International - 1975 - 2007; Shaun McCann - North American College of Gnostic Bishops; Eric Yoffie - Union for Reform Judaism; M. Victor Paul;
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