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Our Past Presidents
The government of the United States of America is divided into three branches to prevent any one branch from gaining too much power.
1
George Washington (February 22, 1732 - December 14, 1799)
Term: April 30, 1789 - March 3, 1797 Party: Federalist
Vice President: John Adams First Lady: Martha Dandridge Custis
2
John Adams (October 30, 1735 - July 4, 1826)
Term: March 4, 1797 - March 3, 1801 Party: Federalist
Vice President: Thomas Jefferson First Lady: Abigail Smith
3
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826)
Term: March 4, 1801 - March 3, 1809 Party: Democratic-Republican
Vice Presidents: Aaron Burr / George Clinton First Lady: Martha Wayles Skelton (1748-1782)
4
James Madison (March 16, 1751 - June 28, 1836)
Term: March 4, 1809 - March 3, 1817 Party: Democratic-Republican
Vice Presidents: George Clinton / Elbridge Gerry First Lady: Dolley Payne Todd
5
James Monroe (April 28, 1758 - July 4, 1831)
Term: March 4, 1817 - March 3, 1825 Party: Democratic-Republican
Vice President: Daniel D. Tompkins First Lady: Elizabeth Kortright
6
John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 - February 23, 1848)
Term: March 4, 1825 - March 3, 1829 Party: Democratic-Republican
Vice President: John C. Calhoun First Lady: Louisa Catherine Johnson
7
Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 - June 8, 1845)
Term: March 4, 1829 - March 3, 1837 Party: Democratic
Vice Presidents: John C. Calhoun / Martin Van Buren First Lady: Rachel Donelson Robards (1767-1828)
8
Martin Van Buren (December 5, 1782 - July 24, 1862)
Term: March 4, 1837 - March 3, 1841 Party: Democratic
Vice President: Richard M. Johnson First Lady: Hannah Hoes (1783-1819)
9
William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 - April 4, 1841)
Term: March 4, 1841 - April 4, 1841 Party: Whig
Vice President: John Tyler First Lady: Anna Tuthill Symmes
10
John Tyler (March 29, 1790 - January 18, 1862)
Term: April 6, 1841 - March 3, 1845 Party: Whig
Vice President: None First Ladys: Letitia Chrisitan (1790-1842) / Julia Gardiner
11
James K. Polk (November 2, 1795 - June 15, 1849)
Term: March 4, 1845 - March 3, 1849 Party: Democratic
Vice President: George M. Dallas First Lady: Sarah Childress
12
Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 - July 9, 1850)
Term: March 5, 1849 - July 9, 1850 Party: Whig
Vice President: Millard Fillmore First Lady: Margaret Mackall Smith
13
Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 - March 8, 1874)
Term: July 9, 1850 - March 3, 1853 Party: Whig
Vice President: none First Lady: Abigail Powers
14
Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804 - October 8, 1869)
Term: March 4, 1853 - March 3, 1857 Party: Democrat
Vice President: William R. King First Lady: Jane Means Appleton
15
James Buchanan (April 23, 1791 - June 1, 1868)
Term: March 4, 1857 - March 3, 1861 Party: Democrat
Vice President: John C. Breckinridge First Lady: none
16
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865)
Term: March 4, 1861 - April 15, 1865 Party: Republican
Vice President: Hannibal Hamlin / Andrew Johnson First Lady: Mary Todd
17
Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 - July 31, 1875)
Term: April 15, 1865 - March 3, 1869 Party: Democratic
Vice President: none First Lady: Eliza McCardle
18
Ulysses S. Grant (April 27, 1822 - July 23, 1885)
Term: March 4, 1869 - March 3, 1877 Party: Republican
Vice Presidents: Schuyler Colfax / Henry Wilson First Lady: Julia Boggs Dent
19
Rutherford B. Hayes (October 4, 1822 - January 17, 1893)
Term: March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1881 Party: Republican
Vice President: William A. Wheeler First Lady: Lucy Ware Webb
20
James Garfield (November 19, 1831 - September 19, 1881)
Term: March 4, 1881 - September 19, 1881 Party: Republican
Vice President: Chester A. Arthur First Lady: Lucretia Rudolph
21
Chester A. Arthur (October 5, 1830 - November 18, 1886)
Term: September 19, 1881 - March 3, 1885 Party: Republican
Vice President: Chester A. Arthur First Lady: Lucretia Rudolph
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Grover Cleveland (October 5, 1830 - November 18, 1886)
Terms: March 4, 1885 - March 3, 1889 and March 4, 1893 - March 3, 1897 Party: Democrat
Vice Presidents: Thomas A. Hendricks / Adlai E. Stevenson First Lady: Frances Folsom
23
Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 - March 13, 1901)
Term: March 4, 1889 - March 3, 1893 Party: Republican
Vice President: Levi P. Morton First Lady: Caroline Lavinia Scott (1832-1892)
25
William McKinley (January 29, 1843 - September 14, 1901)
Term: March 4, 1897 - September 14, 1901 Party: Republican
Vice Presidents: Garret A. Hobart / Theodore Roosevelt First Lady: Ida Saxton
26
Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 - January 6, 1919)
Term: September 14, 1901 - March 3, 1909 Party: Republican
Vice President: Charles Warren Fairbanks First Lady: Edith Kermit Carow
27
William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 - March 8, 1930)
Term: March 4, 1909 - March 3, 1913 Party: Republican
Vice President: James S. Sherman First Lady: Helen Herron
28
Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 - February 3, 1924)
Term: March 4, 1913 - March 3, 1921 Party: Democrat
Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall First Ladies: Ellen Louise Axson (1860-1914) / Edith Bolling Galt
29
Warren G. Harding (November 2, 1865 - August 2, 1923)
Term: March 4, 1921 - August 2, 1923 Party: Republican
Vice President: Calvin Coolidge First Lady: Florence Kling De Wolfe
30
Calvin Coolidge (July 4, 1872 - January 5, 1933)
Term: August 3, 1923 - March 3, 1929 Party: Republican
Vice President: Charles G. Dawes First Lady: Grace Anna Goodhue
31
Herbert Hoover (August 10, 1874 - October 20, 1964)
Term: March 4, 1929 - March 3, 1933 Party: Republican
Vice President: Charles Curtis First Lady: Lou Henry
32
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945)
Term: March 4, 1933 - April 12, 1945 Party: Democrat
Vice Presidents: John N. Garner / Henry A. Wallace / Harry S. Truman First Lady: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
33
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 - December 26, 1972)
Term: April 12, 1945 - January 20, 1953 Party: Democrat
Vice President: Alben W. Barkley First Lady: Elizabeth "Bess" Virginia Wallace
34
Dwight D. Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 - March 28, 1969)
Term: January 20, 1953 - January 20, 1961 Party: Republican
Vice President: Richard M. Nixon First Lady: Mary "Mamie" Geneva Doud
35
John F. Kennedy (May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963)
Term: January 20, 1961 - November 22, 1963 Party: Democrat
Vice President: Lyndon B. Johnson First Lady: Jacqueline Lee Bouvier
36
Lyndon B. Johnson (August 27, 1908 - January 22, 1973)
Term: November 22, 1963 - January 20, 1969 Party: Democrat
Vice President: Hubert H. Humphrey First Lady: Claudia "Lady Bird" Alta Taylor
37
Richard M. Nixon (January 9, 1913 - April 22, 1994)
Term: January 20, 1969 - August 9, 1974 Party: Republican
Vice Presidents: Spiro T. Agnew / Gerald R. Ford First Lady: Thelma "Patricia" Catherine Ryan
38
Gerald R. Ford (July 14, 1913 - present)
Term: August 9, 1974 - January 20, 1977 Party: Republican
Vice President: Nelson A. Rockefeller First Lady: Elizabeth "Betty" Bloomer Warren
39
James E. Carter, Jr. (October 1, 1924 - present)
Term: January 20, 1977 - January 20, 1981 Party: Democrat
Vice President: Walter F. Mondale First Lady: Eleanor Rosalynn Smith
40
Ronald Reagan (February 6, 1911 - present)
Term: January 20, 1981 - January 20, 1989 Party: Republican
Vice President: George H. W. Bush First Lady: Nancy Davis
41
George Herbert Walker Bush (June 12, 1924 - present)
Term: January 20, 1989 - January 20, 1993 Party: Republican
Vice President: J. Danforth Quayle First Lady: Barbara Pierce
42
William Jefferson Clinton (August 19, 1946 - present)
Term: January 20, 1993 - January 20, 2001 Party: Democrat
Vice President: Albert Gore, Jr. First Lady: Hillary Rodham
43
George Walker Bush (July 6, 1946 - present)
Term: January 20, 2001 - Present Party: Republican
Vice President: Richard Cheney First Lady: Laura Welch




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