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.
# | Name | Took Office | Left Office | Party | Vice President(s) |
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1 | George Washington | 1789 | 1797 | No party | John Adams |
2 | John Adams | 1797 | 1801 | Federalist | Thomas Jefferson |
3 | Thomas Jefferson | 1801 | 1809 | Democrat-Republican | George Clinton1 |
4 | James Madison | 1809 | 1817 | Democrat-Republican | Elbridge Gerry1 |
5 | James Monroe | 1817 | 1825 | Democrat-Republican | Daniel D. Tompkins |
6 | John Quincy Adams | 1825 | 1829 | Democrat-Republican | John C. Calhoun |
7 | Andrew Jackson | 1829 | 1837 | Democrat | John C. Calhoun2 and Martin Van Buren |
8 | Martin Van Buren | 1837 | 1841 | Democrat | Richard Mentor Johnson |
9 | William Henry Harrison3 | 1841 | 1841 | Whig | John Tyler |
10 | John Tyler | 1841 | 1845 | Whig4 | none |
11 | James Knox Polk | 1845 | 1849 | Democrat | George M. Dallas |
12 | Zachary Taylor3 | 18499 | 1850 | Whig | Millard Fillmore |
13 | Millard Fillmore | 1850 | 1853 | Whig | none |
14 | Franklin Pierce | 1853 | 1857 | Democrat | William R. King5 |
15 | James Buchanan | 1857 | 1861 | Democrat | John C. Breckinridge |
16 | Abraham Lincoln6 | 1861 | 1865 | Republican | Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson |
17 | Andrew Johnson | 1865 | 1869 | Democrat7 | none |
18 | Ulysses Simpson Grant | 1869 | 1877 | Republican | Schuyler Colfax and Henry Wilson5 |
19 | Rutherford Birchard Hayes | 1877 | 1881 | Republican | William A. Wheeler |
20 | James Abram Garfield6 | 1881 | 1881 | Republican | Chester A. Arthur |
21 | Chester Alan Arthur | 1881 | 1885 | Republican | none |
22 | Stephen Grover Cleveland | 1885 | 1889 | Democrat | Thomas A. Hendricks5 |
23 | Benjamin Harrison | 1889 | 1893 | Republican | Levi P. Morton |
24 | Stephen Grover Cleveland | 1893 | 1897 | Democrat | Adlai E. Stevenson |
25 | William McKinley6 | 1897 | 1901 | Republican | Garret A. Hobart5 then Theodore Roosevelt |
26 | Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. | 1901 | 1909 | Republican | None then Charles W. Fairbanks |
27 | William Howard Taft | 1909 | 1913 | Republican | James S. Sherman5 |
28 | Thomas Woodrow Wilson | 1913 | 1921 | Democrat | Thomas R. Marshall |
29 | Warren Gamaliel Harding3 | 1921 | 1923 | Republican | Calvin Coolidge |
30 | John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. | 1923 | 1929 | Republican | None then Charles G. Dawes |
31 | Herbert Clark Hoover | 1929 | 1933 | Republican | Charles Curtis |
32 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt3 | 1933 | 1945 | Democrat | John Nance Garner and Henry A. Wallace and Harry S. Truman |
33 | Harry S. Truman | 1945 | 1953 | Democrat | None then Alben W. Barkley |
34 | Dwight David Eisenhower | 1953 | 1961 | Republican | Richard M. Nixon |
35 | John Fitzgerald Kennedy6 | 1961 | 1963 | Democrat | Lyndon B. Johnson |
36 | Lyndon Baines Johnson | 1963 | 1969 | Democrat | None then Hubert H. Humphrey |
37 | Richard Milhous Nixon8 | 1969 | 1974 | Republican | Spiro Agnew2 then None then Gerald Ford |
38 | Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. | 1974 | 1977 | Republican | None then Nelson Rockefeller |
39 | James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. | 1977 | 1981 | Democrat | Walter F. Mondale |
40 | Ronald Wilson Reagan | 1981 | 1989 | Republican | George H.W. Bush |
41 | George Herbert Walker Bush | 1989 | 1997 | Republican | James Danforth Quayle III |
42 | Robert Joseph Dole | 1997 | 2001 | Republican | Orrin Hatch |
43 | Bill Bradley | 2001 | 2009 | Democrat | John Kerry |
44 | Barack Obama | 2009 | 2017 | Progressive | Mark Warner |
1 Died while Vice President.
2 Resigned as Vice President.
3 Died of natural causes.
4 Democrat on Whig ticket.
5 Died while Vice President, not replaced.
6 Assassinated.
7 Democrat who ran on Union ticket with Republican Lincoln.
8 Resigned.