The following is a list of United States Presidents by the generation they were born in, according to the books by William Strauss and Neil Howe.
| Generation | OB | Name | OO | Deaths | Century |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty Generation (1724–1741) |
1 2 |
George Washington John Adams |
1 2 |
None | 18th century |
| Republican Generation (1742–1766) |
3 4 5 |
Thomas Jefferson James Madison James Monroe |
3 4 5 |
None | 18th century |
| Compromise Generation (1767–1791) |
6 7 8 9 10 11 12 |
Andrew Jackson John Quincy Adams William Henry Harrison Martin Van Buren Zachary Taylor John Tyler James Buchanan |
7 6 9 8 12 10 15 |
None | 18th century |
| Transcendental Generation (1792–1821) |
13 14 15 16 17 |
James K. Polk Millard Fillmore Franklin Pierce Abraham Lincoln Andrew Johnson |
11 13 14 16 17 |
George Washington (1799) | 18th century/19th century |
| Civil War Generation (1822–1842) |
18 19 20 21 22 23 |
Ulysses S. Grant Rutherford B. Hayes Chester A. Arthur James A. Garfield Benjamin Harrison Grover Cleveland |
18 19 21 20 23 22/24 |
John Adams (1826) Thomas Jefferson (1826) James Monroe (1831) James Madison (1836) William Henry Harrison (1841) |
19th century |
| Progressive Generation (1843–1859) |
24 27 26 25 |
William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt William H. Taft Woodrow Wilson |
25 26 27 28 |
Andrew Jackson (1845) John Quincy Adams (1848) James K. Polk (1849) Zachary Taylor (1851) |
19th century |
| Missionary Generation (1860–1882) |
28 29 30 31 |
Warren Harding Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover Franklin D. Roosevelt |
29 30 31 32 |
John Tyler (1862) Martin Van Buren (1862) Abraham Lincoln (1865) James Buchanan (1868) Franklin Pierce (1869) Millard Fillmore (1874) Andrew Johnson (1875) James A. Garfield (1881) |
19th century |
| World War I Generation (1883–1900) |
32 33 |
Harry Truman Dwight Eisenhower |
33 34 |
Ulysses S. Grant Chester A. Arthur Rutherford B. Hayes |
19th century |
| World War II Generation (1910–1926) |
38 34 36 37 40 35 39 |
John F. Kennedy Lyndon Johnson Richard M. Nixon Gerald R. Ford Jimmy Carter Ronald W. Reagan George H. W. Bush |
35 36 37 38 39 40 41 |
Benjamin Harrison William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt Warren Harding Woodrow Wilson Grover Cleveland |
20th century |
| Silent Generation (1927–1945) |
William H. Taft (1930) Calvin Coolidge (1933) Franklin D. Roosevelt (1945) |
20th century | |||
| Baby Boom Generation (1946–1964) |
41 42 43 |
George W. Bush Bill Clinton Barack Obama |
43 42 44 |
John F. Kennedy (1963) Herbert Hoover (1964) |
20th century |
| Generation X (1965–1980) |
Dwight Eisenhower (1969) Lyndon B. Johnson (1973) Harry S Truman (1972) |
20th century | |||
| Generation Y (1981-1999) |
Richard M. Nixon (1994) | 20th century | |||
| Generation AO (2000-2020) |
Ronald W. Reagan (2004) Gerald R. Ford (2006) |
21st Century |
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