List of Presidents
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| No. |
President | Took office | Left office | Party | Term |
Previous office | Vice President | ||
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| 1 | George Washington |
April 30, 1789 | March 4, 1797 | Independent | 1 | Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army (1775–1783) | John Adams | ||
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| 2 | John Adams |
March 4, 1797 | March 4, 1801 | Federalist | 3 | Vice President | Thomas Jefferson | ||
| 3 | Thomas Jefferson |
March 4, 1801 | March 4, 1809 | Democratic- Republican |
4 | Vice President | Aaron Burr | ||
| 5 | George Clinton | ||||||||
| 4 | James Madison |
March 4, 1809 | March 4, 1817 | Democratic- Republican |
6 | Secretary of State (1801–1809) | George Clinton |
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| vacant |
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| 7 | Elbridge Gerry |
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| vacant |
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| 5 | James Monroe |
March 4, 1817 | March 4, 1825 | Democratic- Republican |
8 | Secretary of State (1811–1817) | Daniel D. Tompkins | ||
| 9 | |||||||||
| 6 | John Quincy Adams |
March 4, 1825 | March 4, 1829 | Democratic- Republican |
10 | Secretary of State (1817–1825) | John C. Calhoun | ||
| 7 | Andrew Jackson |
March 4, 1829 | March 4, 1837 | Democratic | 11 | U.S. Senator (1823–1825) | John C. Calhoun |
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| vacant |
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| 12 | Martin Van Buren | ||||||||
| 8 | Martin Van Buren |
March 4, 1837 | March 4, 1841 | Democratic | 13 | Vice President | Richard Mentor Johnson | ||
| 9 | William Henry Harrison |
March 4, 1841 | April 4, 1841 |
Whig | 14 | Minister to Colombia (1828–1829) | John Tyler | ||
| 10 |
John Tyler |
April 4, 1841 | March 4, 1845 | Whig |
Vice President | vacant | |||
| no party |
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| 11 | James K. Polk |
March 4, 1845 | March 4, 1849 | Democratic | 15 | Governor of Tennessee (1839–1841) | George M. Dallas | ||
| 12 | Zachary Taylor |
March 4, 1849 | July 9, 1850 |
Whig | 16 | U.S. Army Major general | Millard Fillmore | ||
| 13 | Millard Fillmore |
July 9, 1850 | March 4, 1853 | Whig | Vice President | vacant | |||
| 14 | Franklin Pierce |
March 4, 1853 | March 4, 1857 | Democratic | 17 | U.S. Senator (1837–1842) | William R. King |
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| vacant |
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| 15 | James Buchanan |
March 4, 1857 | March 4, 1861 | Democratic | 18 | United States Minister to the United Kingdom (1853–1856) | John C. Breckinridge | ||
| 16 | Abraham Lincoln |
March 4, 1861 | April 15, 1865 |
Republican | 19 | U.S. Representative (1847–1849) | Hannibal Hamlin | ||
| Republican |
20 | Andrew Johnson | |||||||
| 17 | Andrew Johnson |
April 15, 1865 | March 4, 1869 | Democratic ; no party |
Vice President | vacant |
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| 18 | Ulysses S. Grant |
March 4, 1869 | March 4, 1877 | Republican | 21 | Commanding General of the Army (1864–1869) | Schuyler Colfax | ||
| 22 | Henry Wilson |
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| vacant |
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| 19 | Rutherford B. Hayes |
March 4, 1877 | March 4, 1881 | Republican | 23 | Governor of Ohio (1868–1872 & 1876–1877) | William A. Wheeler | ||
| 20 | James A. Garfield |
March 4, 1881 | September 19, 1881 |
Republican | 24 | U.S. Representative | Chester A. Arthur | ||
| 21 | Chester A. Arthur |
September 19, 1881 | March 4, 1885 | Republican | Vice President | vacant | |||
| 22 | Grover Cleveland |
March 4, 1885 | March 4, 1889 | Democratic | 25 | Governor of New York (1883–1885) | Thomas A. Hendricks |
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| vacant |
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| 23 | Benjamin Harrison |
March 4, 1889 | March 4, 1893 | Republican | 26 | U.S. Senator (1881–1887) | Levi P. Morton | ||
| 24 | Grover Cleveland |
March 4, 1893 | March 4, 1897 | Democratic | 27 | President (1885–1889) | Adlai Stevenson I | ||
| 25 | William McKinley |
March 4, 1897 | September 14, 1901 |
Republican | 28 | Governor of Ohio (1892–1896) | Garret Hobart |
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| vacant |
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| 29 | Theodore Roosevelt | ||||||||
| 26 | Theodore Roosevelt |
September 14, 1901 | March 4, 1909 | Republican | Vice President | vacant | |||
| 30 | Charles W. Fairbanks | ||||||||
| 27 | William Howard Taft |
March 4, 1909 | March 4, 1913 | Republican | 31 | Secretary of War (1904–1908) | James S. Sherman |
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| vacant |
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| 28 | Woodrow Wilson |
March 4, 1913 | March 4, 1921 | Democratic | 32 | Governor of New Jersey (1911–1913) | Thomas R. Marshall | ||
| 33 | |||||||||
| 29 | Warren G. Harding |
March 4, 1921 | August 2, 1923 |
Republican | 34 | U.S. Senator (1915–1921) | Calvin Coolidge | ||
| 30 | Calvin Coolidge |
August 2, 1923 | March 4, 1929 | Republican | Vice President | vacant | |||
| 35 | Charles G. Dawes | ||||||||
| 31 | Herbert Hoover |
March 4, 1929 | March 4, 1933 | Republican | 36 | Secretary of Commerce (1921–1928) | Charles Curtis | ||
| 32 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
March 4, 1933 (1933-03-04) | April 12, 1945 (1945-04-12) |
Democratic | 37 |
Governor of New York (1929–1932) | John Nance Garner | ||
| 38 | |||||||||
| 39 | Henry A. Wallace | ||||||||
| 40 | Harry S. Truman | ||||||||
| 33 | Harry S. Truman |
April 12, 1945 | January 20, 1953 | Democratic | Vice President | vacant | |||
| 41 | Alben W. Barkley | ||||||||
| 34 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
January 20, 1953 | January 20, 1961 |
Republican | 42 | Supreme Allied Commander Europe (1949–1952) | Richard Nixon | ||
| 43 | |||||||||
| 35 | John F. Kennedy |
January 20, 1961 | November 22, 1963 |
Democratic | 44 | U.S. Senator (1953–1960) | Lyndon B. Johnson | ||
| 36 | Lyndon B. Johnson |
November 22, 1963 | January 20, 1969 | Democratic | Vice President | vacant | |||
| 45 | Hubert Humphrey | ||||||||
| 37 | Richard Nixon |
January 20, 1969 | August 9, 1974 |
Republican | 46 | Vice President (1953–1961) | Spiro Agnew |
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| 47 | |||||||||
| vacant |
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| Gerald Ford |
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| 38 | Gerald Ford |
August 9, 1974 | January 20, 1977 | Republican | Vice President | vacant |
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| Nelson Rockefeller |
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| 39 | Jimmy Carter |
January 20, 1977 | January 20, 1981 | Democratic | 48 | Governor of Georgia (1971–1975) | Walter Mondale | ||
| 40 | Ronald Reagan |
January 20, 1981 | January 20, 1989 | Republican | 49 | Governor of California (1967–1975) | George H. W. Bush | ||
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| 41 | George H. W. Bush |
January 20, 1989 | January 20, 1993 | Republican | 51 | Vice President | Dan Quayle | ||
| 42 | Bill Clinton |
January 20, 1993 | January 20, 2001 | Democratic | 52 | Governor of Arkansas (1979–1981 & 1983–1992) | Al Gore | ||
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| 43 | George W. Bush |
January 20, 2001 | January 20, 2009 | Republican | 54 | Governor of Texas (1995–2000) | Dick Cheney | ||
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| 44 | Barack Obama |
January 20, 2009 | Incumbent | Democratic | 56 | U.S. Senator (2005–2008) | Joe Biden | ||
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