Template:Infobox officeholder/example

This page is to aid users in the application of {{Infobox officeholder}}.

General office

{{Infobox president
| honorific-prefix =
| name             = Harry S. Truman
| honorific-suffix =
| image            = Harry S. Truman.jpg
| alt              = 
| order            = 33rd
| office           = President of the United States
| election         = 
| term_start       = {{Start date|1945|4|12}}
| term_end         = {{End date|1953|1|20}}
| vicepresident    = [[Alben W. Barkley]]  (1949–53)
| predecessor      = [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]
| successor        = [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]
| birth_date       = {{Birth date|1884|5|8}}
| birth_place      = [[Lamar, Missouri]], U.S.
| death_date       = {{Death date and age|1972|12|26|1884|5|8}}
| death_place      = [[Kansas City, Missouri]], U.S.
| spouse           = [[Bess Truman|Bess Wallace Truman]]
| party            = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| relations        = 
| children         = [[Margaret Truman]]
| residence        =
| alma_mater       =
| occupation       =
| profession       = 
| signature        = Harry S. Truman signature.png
| signature_alt    = "Harry S. Truman" signature
| website          =
| footnotes        =
}}

Member of Parliament

Diane Abbott
Member of the United Kingdom Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 June 1987
Preceded by	Ernie Roberts
Majority	7,427 (25%)
Personal details
Born	(1953-09-27) September 27, 1953 Paddington, London
Political party	Labour
Alma mater	Newnham College, Cambridge

Multiple terms

Place the most recent terms at the top. When both a start and an end term are given, you can instead specify the complete term using the parameters |term=, |term2=, etc., as is done with |term3= in the example below. This can be helpful with complicated terms that cannot be given as simple starting or ending dates, or if you prefer something other than the default term separator (an en dash, with spaces around it if the start or end is not a simple integer date).

Where a politician is redistricted into a new district, use |prior_term= to indicate the previous district(s). This saves space in the infobox by not generating a completely new office each time redistricting happens. If you do this, it is recommended that you list the predecessor before the subject first took office and the successor after the subject last left office. If more complete documentation of the districts is desired, it can be done with succession boxes at the end of the article.

Where a member has

Samuel Adams
In this 1772 portrait by John Singleton Copley, Adams points at the Massachusetts Charter, which he viewed as a constitution that protected the people's rights.
4th Governor of Massachusetts
In office October 8, 1793 – June 2, 1797
Lieutenant	Moses Gill
3rd Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
In office 1789–1793
Governor	John Hancock
President of the Massachusetts Senate
In office 1782–1785 1787–1788
Delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress
In office 1774–1781
Clerk of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
In office 1766–1774
Personal details
Born	Template:OldStyleDate Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	October 2, 1803(1803-10-02) (aged 81) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Political party	Democratic-Republican (1790s)
Spouse(s)	Elizabeth Checkley, Elizabeth Wells
Signature