Time in Office
| N° | President | Length in days |
Rank | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | François Mitterrand | 5109 | 1 | Served two full terms of seven years. |
| 22 | Jacques Chirac | 4382 | 2 | Served one full term of seven years and one full term of five years. |
| 18 | Charles de Gaulle | 3763 | 3 | Served one full term of seven years and resigned during second term. |
| 4 | Jules Grévy | 3228 | 4 | Served one full term of seven years and resigned during second term. |
| 15 | Albert François Lebrun | 2983 | 5 | Served one full term of seven years and was replaced by Marshal Philippe Pétain during second term. |
| 8 | Émile Loubet | 2556 | 6 | Served one full term of seven years. |
| 9 | Armand Fallières | 2557 | 7 | Served one full term of seven years. |
| 10 | Raymond Poincaré | 2556 | 8 | Served one full term of seven years. |
| 13 | Gaston Doumergue | 2556 | 9 | Served one full term of seven years. |
| 16 | Vincent Auriol | 2557 | 10 | Served one full term of seven years. |
| 20 | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | 2551 | 11 | Served one full term of seven years. |
| 5 | Sadi Carnot | 2396 | 12 | Served less than one full term of seven years (assassinated). |
| 3 | Patrice de Mac-Mahon | 2077 | 13 | Served less than one full term of seven years (resigned). |
| 23 | Nicolas Sarkozy | 1826 | 14 | Served one full term of five years. |
| 17 | René Coty | 1818 | 15 | Served less than one full term of seven years (end of the Fourth Republic). |
| 19 | Georges Pompidou | 1747 | 16 | Served less than one full term of seven years (died in office). |
| 7 | Félix Faure | 1491 | 17 | Served less than one full term of seven years (died in office). |
| 1 | Prince Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte | 1443 | 18 | Served less than one full term of seven years (end of the Second Republic, proclaimed himself as Emperor). |
| 12 | Alexandre Millerand | 1357 | 19 | Served less than one full term of seven years (resigned). |
| 2 | Adolphe Thiers | 632 | 20 | Served less than one full term of seven years (resigned). |
| 14 | Paul Doumer | 329 | 21 | Served less than one full term of seven years (assassinated). |
| 11 | Paul Deschanel | 216 | 22 | Served less than one full term of seven years (resigned). |
| 6 | Jean Casimir-Perier | 203 | 23 | Served less than one full term of seven years (resigned). |
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