We elect a President for how many years?

The President of the United States is elected for a four-year term. The 22nd Amendment, ratified in 1951, limits a person to being elected President twice, for a maximum of eight years (or up to ten years if they assumed the presidency mid-term and served less than two years of the previous President's term). Before the 22nd Amendment, there was no constitutional limit, though all Presidents had voluntarily followed George Washington's two-term precedent until Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected four times. The presidential election occurs on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of years divisible by four. The President-elect is inaugurated on January 20th of the following year.