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Presidents of the United States

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Presidents of the United States

Presidents of the United States
President Political Party Dates in Office Vice President(s)
George Washington   1789-97 John Adams
John Adams Federalist 1797-1801 Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican 1801-9 Aaron Burr, 1801-5 George Clinton, 1805-9
James Madison Democratic-Republican 1809-17 George Clinton, 1809-12 (no Vice President, Apr., 1812-Mar., 1813) Elbridge Gerry, 1813-14 (no Vice President, Nov., 1814-Mar., 1817)
James Monroe Democratic-Republican 1817-25 Daniel D. Tompkins
John Quincy Adams Democratic-Republican 1825-29 John C. Calhoun
Andrew Jackson Democratic 1829-37 John C. Calhoun, 1829-32 (no Vice President, Dec., 1832-Mar., 1833) Martin Van Buren, 1833-37
Martin Van Buren Democratic 1837-41 Richard M. Johnson
William Henry Harrison Whig 1841 John Tyler
John Tyler Whig 1841-45 (no Vice President)
James Knox Polk Democratic 1845-49 George M. Dallas
Zachary Taylor Whig 1849-50 Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore Whig 1850-53 (no Vice President)
Franklin Pierce Democratic 1853-57 William R. King, 1853 (no Vice President, Apr., 1853-Mar., 1857)
James Buchanan Democratic 1857-61 John C. Breckinridge
Abraham Lincoln Republican 1861-65 Hannibal Hamlin, 1861-65 Andrew Johnson, 1865
Andrew Johnson Democratic/National Union 1865-69 (no Vice President)
Ulysses Simpson Grant Republican 1869-77 Schuyler Colfax, 1869-73 Henry Wilson, 1873-75 (no Vice President, Nov., 1875-Mar., 1877)
Rutherford Birchard Hayes Republican 1877-81 William A. Wheeler
James Abram Garfield Republican 1881 Chester A. Arthur
Chester Alan Arthur Republican 1881-85 (no Vice President)
Grover Cleveland Democratic 1885-89 Thomas A. Hendricks, 1885 (no Vice President, Nov., 1885-Mar., 1889)
Benjamin Harrison Republican 1889-93 Levi P. Morton
Grover Cleveland Democratic 1893-97 Adlai E. Stevenson
William McKinley Republican 1897-1901 Garret A. Hobart, 1897-99 (no Vice President, Nov., 1899-Mar., 1901) Theodore Roosevelt, 1901
Theodore Roosevelt Republican 1901-9 (no Vice President, Sept., 1901-Mar., 1905) Charles W. Fairbanks, 1905-9
William Howard Taft Republican 1909-13 James S. Sherman, 1909-12 (no Vice President, Oct., 1912-Mar., 1913)
Woodrow Wilson Democratic 1913-21 Thomas R. Marshall
Warren Gamaliel Harding Republican 1921-23 Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge Republican 1923-29 (no Vice President, 1923-25) Charles G. Dawes, 1925-29
Herbert Clark Hoover Republican 1929-33 Charles Curtis
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic 1933-45 John N. Garner, 1933-41 Henry A. Wallace, 1941-45 Harry S. Truman, 1945
Harry S. Truman Democratic 1945-53 (no Vice President, 1945-49) Alben W. Barkley, 1949-53
Dwight David Eisenhower Republican 1953-61 Richard M. Nixon
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Democratic 1961-63 Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson Democratic 1963-69 (no Vice President, 1963-65) Hubert H. Humphrey, 1965-69
Richard Milhous Nixon Republican 1969-74 Spiro T. Agnew, 1969-73 (no Vice President, Oct. 10, 1973-Dec. 6, 1973) Gerald R. Ford, 1973-74
Gerald Rudolph Ford Republican 1974-77 (no Vice President, Aug. 9, 1974-Dec. 19, 1974) Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1974-77
Jimmy Carter Democratic 1977-81 Walter F. Mondale
Ronald Wilson Reagan Republican 1981-89 George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush Republican 1989-93 J. Danforth Quayle
Bill Clinton Democratic 1993-2001 Albert Gore, Jr.
George Walker Bush Republican 2001- Dick Cheney


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