US Presidents

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US Presidents

No.	President	Years	Party	Age¹
¹ At inauguration; Kennedy was the youngest, Reagan the oldest
² Died in office and succeeded by the vice president
³ Assassinated in office and succeeded by the vice president
⁴ A Democrat, Johnson was nominated vice president by Republicans and elected with Lincoln on a National Union ticket
⁵ Born Hiram Grant
⁶ Resigned in face of impeachment proceedings following the Watergate scandal
⁷ Born Leslie Lynch King
1.	George Washington	1789–97	Federalist
2.	John Adams	1797–1801	Federalist	57
3.	Thomas Jefferson	1801–09	Dem-Rep	61
4.	James Madison	1809–17	Dem-Rep	57
5.	James Monroe	1817–25	Dem-Rep	57
6.	John Quincy Adams	1825–29	Dem-Rep	58
7.	Andrew Jackson	1829–37	Democrat	57
8.	Martin Van Buren	1837–41	Democrat	61
9.	William H. Harrison²	1841	Whig	54
10.	John Tyler	1841–45	Whig	68
11.	James K. Polk	1845–49	Democrat	51
12.	Zachary Taylor²	1849–50	Whig	49
13.	Millard Fillmore	1850–53	Whig	50
14.	Franklin Pierce	1853–57	Democrat	48
15.	James Buchanan	1857–61	Democrat	65
16.	Abraham Lincoln³	1861–65	Republican	52
17.	Andrew Johnson⁴	1865–69	Nat. Union	56
18.	Ulysses S. Grant⁵	1869–77	Republican	46
19.	Rutherford B. Hayes	1877–81	Republican	54
20.	James A. Garfield³	1881	Republican	49
21.	Chester A. Arthur	1881–85	Republican	51
22.	Grover Cleveland	1885–89	Democrat	47
23.	Benjamin Harrison	1889–93	Republican	55
24.	Grover Cleveland	1893–97	Democrat	55
25.	William McKinley³	1897–1901	Republican	54
26.	Theodore Roosevelt	1901–09	Republican	43
27.	William H. Taft	1909–13	Republican	51
28.	Woodrow Wilson	1913–21	Democrat	56
29.	Warren Harding²	1921–23	Republican	55
30.	Calvin Coolidge	1923–29	Republican	51
31.	Herbert Hoover	1929–33	Republican	54
32.	Franklin D. Roosevelt²	1933–45	Democrat	51
33.	Harry S. Truman	1945–53	Democrat	60
34.	Dwight D. Eisenhower	1953–61	Republican	62
35.	John Kennedy³	1961–63	Democrat	43
36.	Lyndon Johnson	1963–69	Democrat	55
37.	Richard Nixon⁶	1969–74	Republican	56
38.	Gerald Ford⁷	1974–77	Republican	61
39.	Jimmy Carter	1977–81	Democrat	52
40.	Ronald Reagan	1981–89	Republican	69
41.	George Bush	1989–93	Republican	64
42.	Bill Clinton	1993–2001	Democrat	46
43.	George W. Bush	2001–	Republican	54