<P> Since the list began , every serving President of the United States has been a Man or Person of the Year at least once with the exceptions of Calvin Coolidge , in office at time of the first issue , Herbert Hoover , the next U.S. president , and Gerald Ford . Most were named Man or Person of the Year either the year they were elected or while they were in office ; the only one to be given the title before being elected is Dwight D. Eisenhower , in 1944 as Supreme Commander of the Allied Invasion Force , eight years before his election . He subsequently received the title again in 1959 , while in office . Franklin D. Roosevelt is the only person to have received the title three times , first as president - elect ( 1932 ) and later as the incumbent president ( 1934 and 1941 ) . </P>
<P> Since the list began , every serving President of the United States has been a Man or Person of the Year at least once with the exceptions of Calvin Coolidge , in office at time of the first issue , Herbert Hoover , the next U.S. president , and Gerald Ford . Most were named Man or Person of the Year either the year they were elected or while they were in office ; the only one to be given the title before being elected is Dwight D. Eisenhower , in 1944 as Supreme Commander of the Allied Invasion Force , eight years before his election . He subsequently received the title again in 1959 , while in office . Franklin D. Roosevelt is the only person to have received the title three times , first as president - elect ( 1932 ) and later as the incumbent president ( 1934 and 1941 ) . </P>
time magazine person of the year 3 times
time magazine person of the year 3 times
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt