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 D. Eisenhower | 1953 | 1961 | Republican | Richard M. Nixon |
35 | John F. Kennedy6 | 1961 | 1963 | Democrat | Lyndon B. Johnson |
36 | Lyndon Baines Johnson | 1963 | 1969 | Democrat | None then Hubert H. Humphrey |
37 | Richard Nixon8 | 1969 | 1974 | Republican | Spiro Agnew2 then None then Gerald Ford |
38 | Gerald R. Ford | 1974 | 1977 | Republican | None then Nelson Rockefeller |
39 | Jimmy Carter | 1977 | 1981 | Democrat | Walter F. Mondale |
40 | Ronald Reagan | 1981 | 1989 | Republican | George Bush |
41 | George Bush | 1989 | 1993 | Republican | James Danforth Quayle III |
42 | Bill Clinton | 1993 | 2001 | Democrat | Al Gore |
43 | Al Gore | 2001 | 2009 | Democrat | Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh |
44 | Mitt Romney | 2009 | 2013 | Republican | Paul Ryan |
45 | Hillary Clinton | 2013 | 2021 | Democrat | Barack Obama |
46 | Barack Obama | 2021 | 2029 | Democrat | Kamala Harris |
47 | Susana Martinez | 2029 | 2033 | Republican | Glenn Youngkin |
48 | Kamala Harris | 2033 | 2041 | Democrat | Pete Buttigieg |
Notes[]
- D Died in office of natural causes.
- R Resigned.
- A Assassinated.
- N Former Democrat who ran for Vice President on Whig ticket. Clashed with Whig congressional leaders and was expelled from the Whig party in 1841.
- U Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson were, respectively, a Republican and a Democrat who ran on the National Union ticket in 1864.
See also[]
- President Gore
- United States of America