This a List of Presidents of the United States. The President of the United States is the head of state and the head of government of the United States. As chief of the executive branch and head of the federal government as a whole, the Presidency is the highest political official position in the United States by influence and recognition. The President is also the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. armed forces. The President is indirectly elected to a four year term by an Electoral College. Since the ratification of the Twenty-second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1951, no person may be elected to the office of the President more than twice.
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No. | President | Took office | Left office | Party | Vice President | Term | |
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1 | George Washington | April 30, 1789 | March 4, 1797 | No party | John Adams | 1 | |
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2 | John Adams | March 4, 1797 | March 4, 1801 | Federalist | Thomas Jefferson | 3 | |
3 | Thomas Jefferson | March 4, 1801 | March 4, 1809 | Democratic-Republican | Aaron Burr | 4 | |
George Clinton | 5 | ||||||
4 | James Madison | March 4, 1809 | March 4, 1817 | Democratic-Republican | George Clinton D | 6 | |
vacant | |||||||
Elbridge Gerry D | 7 | ||||||
vacant | |||||||
5 | James Monroe | March 4, 1817 | March 4, 1825 | Democratic-Republican | Daniel D. Tompkins | 8 | |
9 | |||||||
6 | John Quincy Adams | March 4, 1825 | March 4, 1829 | Democratic-Republican National Republican Party |
John C. Calhoun | 10 | |
7 | Andrew Jackson | March 4, 1829 | March 4, 1837 | Democratic | John C. Calhoun R | 11 | |
vacant | |||||||
Martin Van Buren | 12 | ||||||
8 | Martin Van Buren | March 4, 1837 | March 4, 1841 | Democratic | Richard Mentor Johnson | 13 | |
9 | William Henry Harrison | March 4, 1841 | April 4, 1841 D | Whig | John Tyler | 14 | |
10 | John Tyler | April 4, 1841 | March 4, 1845 | Whig No party N |
vacant | ||
11 | James K. Polk | March 4, 1845 | March 4, 1849 | Democratic | George M. Dallas | 15 | |
12 | Zachary Taylor | March 4, 1849 | July 9, 1850 | Whig | Millard Fillmore | 16 | |
13 | Millard Fillmore | July 9, 1850 | March 4, 1853 | Whig | vacant | ||
14 | Franklin Pierce | March 4, 1853 | March 4, 1857 | Democratic | William R. King D | 17 | |
vacant | |||||||
15 | James Buchanan | March 4, 1857 | March 4, 1861 | Democratic | John C. Breckinridge | 18 | |
16 | Abraham Lincoln | March 4, 1861 | April 15, 1865 A | Republican National Union Party U |
Hannibal Hamlin | 19 | |
Andrew Johnson | 20 | ||||||
17 | Andrew Johnson | April 15, 1865 | March 4, 1869 | Democratic National Union Party U |
vacant | ||
18 | Ulysses S. Grant | March 4, 1869 | March 4, 1877 | Republican | Schuyler Colfax | 21 | |
Henry Wilson D | 22 | ||||||
vacant | |||||||
19 | Rutherford B. Hayes | March 4, 1877 | March 4, 1881 | Republican | William A. Wheeler | 23 | |
20 | James A. Garfield | March 4, 1881 | September 19, 1881 A | Republican | Chester A. Arthur | 24 | |
21 | Chester A. Arthur | September 19, 1881 | March 4, 1885 | Republican | vacant | ||
22 | Grover Cleveland | March 4, 1885 | March 4, 1889 | Democratic | Thomas A. Hendricks D | 25 | |
vacant | |||||||
23 | Benjamin Harrison | March 4, 1889 | March 4, 1893 | Republican | Levi P. Morton | 26 | |
24 | Grover Cleveland (2nd term) |
March 4, 1893 | March 4, 1897 | Democratic | Adlai E. Stevenson I | 27 | |
25 | William McKinley | March 4, 1897 | September 14, 1901 A | Republican | Garret Hobart D | 28 | |
vacant | |||||||
Theodore Roosevelt | 29 | ||||||
26 | Theodore Roosevelt | September 14, 1901 | March 4, 1909 | Republican | vacant | ||
Charles W. Fairbanks | 30 | ||||||
27 | William Howard Taft | March 4, 1909 | March 4, 1913 | Republican | James S. Sherman D | 31 | |
vacant | |||||||
28 | Woodrow Wilson | March 4, 1913 | March 4, 1921 | Democratic | Thomas R. Marshall | 32 | |
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29 | Warren G. Harding | March 4, 1921 | August 2, 1923 D | Republican | Calvin Coolidge | 34 | |
30 | Calvin Coolidge | August 2, 1923 | March 4, 1929 | Republican | vacant | ||
Charles G. Dawes | 35 | ||||||
31 | Herbert Hoover | March 4, 1929 | March 4, 1933 | Republican | Charles Curtis | 36 | |
32 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | March 4, 1933 | April 12, 1945 D | Democratic | John Nance Garner | 37 | |
38 | |||||||
Henry A. Wallace | 39 | ||||||
Harry S. Truman | 40 | ||||||
33 | Harry S. Truman | April 12, 1945 | January 20, 1953 | Democratic | vacant | ||
Alben W. Barkley | 41 | ||||||
34 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | January 20, 1953 | January 20, 1961 | Republican | Richard Nixon | 42 | |
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35 | John F. Kennedy | January 20, 1961 | November 22, 1963 A | Democratic | Lyndon B. Johnson | 44 | |
36 | Lyndon B. Johnson | November 22, 1963 | January 20, 1969 | Democratic | vacant | ||
Hubert Humphrey | 45 | ||||||
37 | Richard Nixon | January 20, 1969 | August 9, 1974 R | Republican | Spiro Agnew R | 46 | |
47 | |||||||
vacant | |||||||
Gerald Ford | |||||||
38 | Gerald Ford | August 9, 1974 | January 20, 1977 | Republican | vacant | ||
Nelson Rockefeller | |||||||
39 | Jimmy Carter | January 20, 1977 | January 20, 1981 | Democratic | Walter Mondale | 48 | |
40 | Ronald Reagan | January 20, 1981 | January 20, 1989 | Republican | George H. W. Bush | 49 | |
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41 | George H. W. Bush | January 20, 1989 | January 20, 1993 | Republican | Dan Quayle | 51 | |
42 | Bill Clinton | January 20, 1993 | January 20, 2001 | Democratic | Al Gore | 52 | |
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43 | Al Gore | January 20, 2001 | January 20, 2004 | Democratic | Hillary Clinton | 54 | |
44 | George W. Bush | January 20, 2004 | January 20, 2008 | Republican | Dick Cheney | 55 | |
45 | Cynthia McKinney | January 20, 2008 | January 20, 2017 | Green | Rosa Clemente | 56 | |
vacant | |||||||
Jill Stein | 57 | ||||||
46 | Bernard Sanders | January 20, 2017 | Incumbent | Independent | Elizabeth Warren | 58 | |
59 |