How old do you have to be to run for the president of the Unitd states?
599750
He doesn,t hav to be he, or married..it is a misnomer that the president has to be married...It is only through public perception that we, the public, think the president can't run a country if he can't run a family.\n\n(S)He does have to be 35.
289418
According the US Constitution, in order to be in the House of Representatives, you must be "seven Years a Citizen of the United States".  For the Senate, nine years.  In order to be President, however, Article 2 says "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 Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."  So to be in Congress or President, you certainly have to be a citizen.  In order to work in the bureaucracy, I believe the standard is much lower.  As long as you're here legally, and don't have a criminal background, you can probably get into most lower government positions.  Citizenship certainly couldn't hurt, though.
625091
the law state you have to be 25 years at the time of election
899646
it's 30... see section 72 of the Kentucky Constitution..\n\n"The Governor and the Lieutenant Governor shall be at least thirty years of age, and have been citizens and residents of Kentucky for at least six years next preceding their election. The duties of the Lieutenant Governor shall be prescribed by law, and he shall have such other duties as delegated by the Governor."
349940
US Constitution section 1 article 2 states:\nNo 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 Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.\n\nYou don't have to be born in the U.S. or on U.S. soil, or your parents be on vacation, they just need to be U.S. citizens at the time of your birth and have you in the country before they become citizens of another.
942047
Assuming you meet the qualifications in the Constitution (born American, 35 or older, etc.) you get your name out there and convince people to vote for you.  \n\nRealistically, you have to join one of the two parties and convince them to nominate you, and then convince everyone to pick you.  Until the electoral college is abolished, it would take a miracle to be elected if you aren't a Democrat or Republican.\n\nIf you are serious, run for mayor, city council or state legislature something to get the experience you would need to run the country.
131015
You need to be a US citizen, 18 years of age, registered to vote at a particular address in the county you live, and not in prison or a convicted felon (or pardoned).
394150
Have to be older than 35 years of age, a natural-born citizen and be a resident of the states for at least 14 years
538552
You can run for any office, save the Presidency. That is one of the perks for being an American citizen
354169
I don't think there should be a specific age limit but you should only run if you're mentally and physically strong enough for it. No one is gonna vote for a really old, completely incompetent person with no common sense anyway.
467596
a US governor must be of 30 years of age at least, and must have been a citzen of the usa for at least 20 years...\n\ni think :P
965272
Yes. A person should be allowed to run for or be president an unlimited number of times.
978017
right to run for presidency :)
56357
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 Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.\n\nThis is straight from the document!
138836
Anyone who is natural born and age 35 and over is more than welcome to run.  We cant elected them if they dont run.  Its also important to see what there views are on the issues.  If a ultra-liberal black woman was running fro office anf lost you cant assume its because she was a woman or black.  (just an example)
188380
Let the people decide.  Are you of voting age?
479680
At a minimum you need to have born a US citizen (not naturalised) and be at least 35 years old at the time of taking the oath of office. However, on past performance, you need to be a member of one of the two major parties, preferably the Republicans as they have had the better record of getting their candidates elected since, discounting Washington, no independent or lesser party candidate has ever won the Presidency, the nearest to doing so was Theodore Roosevelt who was runner-up to Woodrow Wilson in 1912 with 29% of the vote beating the Republican incumbent, Taft, into third place. However Roosevelt led a breakaway splinter party from the Republicans and had the distinct advantage of having been President before.\n\nIt is useful to have held some form of elective office, preferably a governorship of a southern state, judging by recent elections, and it would help if you were an incumbent in that post at the time of your election. You might also be a member of Congress although they have not got a particularly good record in becoming President unless they become Vice-President first. Only two incumbent US Senators, Warren Harding in 1920 and John F.Kennedy in 1960, have been elected to the Presidency (although Truman, Johnson & Nixon became President after being Vice-President) and the last US Representative to be elected President was James Garfield in 1880 (although Gerald Ford spent most of his career in the House befrore becoming Vice-President in 1973).\n\nYou should aim to be in the ideological centre of your chosen party since those emerging from either left- or right-field, although they may get nominated, tend not to get elected (viz. Goldwater in 1964 & McGovern in 1972). There are obvious exceptions such as Ronald Reagan but he had an extraordinary journey from being a New Deal Democrat and when in office he was not as extreme as his critics like to depict him.\n\nYou should at the very least have a college degree, usually in a liberal humanities subject, preferably at an Ivy League school. The first six Presidents shared the same alma mater, William and Mary College, although no President has studied there since. Although Yale did not produce a President until William Howard Taft in 1909 there has been a flurry of Presidents from that school in recent times comprising Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton and both Bushes who are either graduates of the main university or the law school (Hillary Clinton is also a Yale Law School alumna). You should also begin your career as a lawyer, the chosen occupation of the majority of the inhabitants of the White House as well as those who have taken up politics since the time of the Revolution.\n\nYou should be conventionally married with reasonably functional children. Although extra-marital affairs have not been a disbarment to the Presidency, especially in recent times (think of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Clinton- Cleveland even owned up to fathering an illegitimate child) you should aim to stay married. Only one bachelor, James Buchanan, the last President before the outbreak of the Civil War, has been elected President and only one divorcee, Ronald Reagan, although he had remarried\nlong before he contested the Presidency. A messy divorce probably cost Nelson Rockefeller his party's nomination to be President.\n\nWhile wealth is an advantage coming from a poor background is not a disqualifying factor: Lincoln, Hoover, Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton were all brought up in straitened circumstances whereas inherited wealth proved to be a distinct handicap for both Nelson Rockefeller and Edward Kennedy when coupled with perceived flaws of character when they sought the Presidency.\n\nIt also is a distinct advantage to have been related to a President. Although FDR would have probably have succeeded in any event there is no doubt that his political career was greatly aided by his surname. Even someone who was brought up in comparative obscurity