President

One placed in authority over others; a chief officer; a presiding or managing officer; a governor, ruler or director. The chairman, moderator, or presiding officer of a legislative or deliberative body, appointed to keep order, manage the proceedings, and govern the administrative details of their business. The chief officer of a corporation, company, board, committee, etc., generally having the main direction and administration of their concerns. Roe v. Bank of Versailles, 167 Mo. 406, 67 S. W. 303. The chief executive magistrate of a state or nation, particularly under a democratic form of government; or of a province, colony, or dependency.

In English law. A title formerly given to the king's lieutenant in a province; as the president of Wales. Cowell. This word is also an old though corrupted form of "precedent," (q. r.,) used both as a French and English word. Le president est rare. Dyer, 136.

— President of the council. In English law. A great officer of state ; a member of the cabinet. He attends on the sovereign, proposes business at the council-table, and reports to the sovereign the transactions there. 1 Bl. Comm. 230.

— President of the United States. The official title of the chief executive officer of the federal government in the United States.

See Agent; Desceiptio, Personse. Of a bank or corporation. See Bask, 2 (2); Cokporation. Of the Senate. See Cosghess. Of the United States. " The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Of Rce during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected as follows " '— by electors, appointed by each State, as see, at length. Electors, Presidential. " No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the.ige of thirtyfive Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."' "In Case of the Removal of the President from Of Bce 1 Commonwealth t. Keefe, 9 Gray, 391 (1857), Jletcalf, J. See also Commonwealth v. Adams, 4 id. 28 (1863); 2 Story, Const. § 1784. 2 Bouldin v. Phelps, 30 F. R. 574 (1887). 3 Constitution, Art. I, sec. 9, cl. 8. 4 Smith I'. People, 47 N. Y. 334 (1872). or of his Death. Resignation, or Inability to discharge the. Powers and Duties of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation, or Inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what Officer shall then act as President, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected." ^ An act approved January 19, 1886 (34 St. L. 1), provides, section one, that " in case of the removal, death, resignation, or inability of both the President and Vice-President, the secretary of state, or if there be none, or in case of his removal, death, resignation, or inability," then each of the following officials, in the order here given and subject to the same conditions as to removal, death, etc., — the secretary of the treasury, the secretary of war, the attorney -general, the postmaster-general, the secretary of the navy, and the secretary of the interior,— " shall act as President until the disability of the President or Vice-President is removed or a President shall be elected: Provided, That whenever the powers and duties of the office of President. shall devolve upon any of the persons named herein, if Congress be not then in session, or if it would not meet in accordance with law within twenty days thereafter, it shall be the duty of such person.. to issue a proclamation convening Congress in extraordinary session, giving twenty days' notice of the time of meeting." Sec. 3. The act shall only apply to officers appointed by the consent of the Senate, and to such as are eligible to the office of President, and not under impeachment by the House of Representatives at the time. Sec. 3. Repeals Rev. St. §§ 146-50. " The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States or any of them." ^ His salary is at present fifty thousand dollars a year. 5 "Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation: — I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office -of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." * " The Prt*3ident shall be Commander in Chief of the Army And Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments {q. v.), upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons iq. v.) for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment." " 1 Constitution, Art. H, sec. 1, cl. 6. ^Ibid., cl. 7. 3 R. S. § 153: Act 3 March, 1873, c. 22G. He may meet invasion or insurrection by military force, previous to any declaration of war by Congress. * See War. " He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties (g. v.), provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he' shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint (g. v.) Ambassadors, other public Ministers (g. v.) and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments." ^ See Office. "The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies (q. V.) that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session." ^ " He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measiu-es as he shall judge necessary and expedient [see Message]; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States," ^ He and the Vice-President " shall be removed from Office on Impeachment (g. v.) for, and Conviction of. Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." ^ See subjects relating to the Constitution and government of the United States; in particular Congress; Service, 3. Civil.

A usual title of the chief officer of an assembly, board, corporation, or other collective body. The powers and duties of such officer vary with the law governing the organization of the body over which he presides, and are not definitely indicated by the name. President of the United States of America. The official title of the chief executive officer of the Federal government in the United States.

is an officer of a company who is to direct the manner in which business is to be transacted. From the decision of the president there is appeal to the body over which he presides.