Presidents of the United States: 1789 to Present
Explore every U.S. President in chronological order, from George Washington's in 1789 to the current President. This offical list the features presidential terms, political affiliations, birth details, and the Vice Presidents, with the portraits and links to the comprehensive biographies.
NAME
George Washington
BIRTH YEAR
1732
PARTY
Independent
TERM START
1789-04-30
TERM END
1797-03-04
VICE PRESIDENT
John Adams
STATE OF BIRTH
Virginia
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington
SUMMARY
George Washington is the first president of the United States independent party commander in chief Revolutionary War founding father two terms neutrality precedent Virginia leadership.
NAME
John Adams
BIRTH YEAR
1735
PARTY
Federalist
TERM START
1797-03-04
TERM END
1801-03-04
VICE PRESIDENT
Thomas Jefferson
STATE OF BIRTH
Massachusetts
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams
SUMMARY
John Adams is the second president Federalist party Declaration of Independence lawyer diplomat XYZ Affair Alien and Sedition Acts one term Massachusetts legacy.
NAME
Thomas Jefferson
BIRTH YEAR
1743
PARTY
Democratic-Republican
TERM START
1801-03-04
TERM END
1809-03-04
VICE PRESIDENT
Aaron Burr/George Clinton
STATE OF BIRTH
Virginia
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson
SUMMARY
Thomas Jefferson is the third president Democratic-Republican party Declaration of Independence Louisiana Purchase Lewis and Clark Expedition two terms Virginia Monticello legacy.
NAME
James Madison
BIRTH YEAR
1751
PARTY
Democratic-Republican
TERM START
1809-03-04
TERM END
1817-03-04
VICE PRESIDENT
George Clinton/Elbridge Gerry
STATE OF BIRTH
Virginia
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Madison
SUMMARY
James Madison is the fourth president Democratic-Republican party Constitution Bill of Rights War of 1812 two terms Virginia legacy.
NAME
James Monroe
BIRTH YEAR
1758
PARTY
Democratic-Republican
TERM START
1817-03-04
TERM END
1825-03-04
VICE PRESIDENT
Daniel D Tompkins
STATE OF BIRTH
Virginia
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Monroe
SUMMARY
James Monroe is the fifth president Democratic-Republican party Monroe Doctrine Era of Good Feelings Missouri Compromise two terms Virginia legacy.
NAME
John Quincy Adams
BIRTH YEAR
1767
PARTY
Democratic-Republican
TERM START
1825-03-04
TERM END
1829-03-04
VICE PRESIDENT
John C Calhoun
STATE OF BIRTH
Massachusetts
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Quincy_Adams
SUMMARY
John Quincy Adams is the sixth president Democratic-Republican party diplomat Treaty of Ghent Adams-Onís Treaty one term Massachusetts legacy.
NAME
Andrew Jackson
BIRTH YEAR
1767
PARTY
Democratic
TERM START
1829-03-04
TERM END
1837-03-04
VICE PRESIDENT
John C Calhoun/Martin Van Buren
STATE OF BIRTH
South Carolina
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson
SUMMARY
Andrew Jackson is the seventh president Democratic party populism Indian Removal Act Bank War two terms South Carolina legacy.
NAME
Martin Van Buren
BIRTH YEAR
1782
PARTY
Democratic
TERM START
1837-03-04
TERM END
1841-03-04
VICE PRESIDENT
Richard Mentor Johnson
STATE OF BIRTH
New York
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Van_Buren
SUMMARY
Martin Van Buren is the eighth president Democratic party Panic of 1837 one term New York legacy.
NAME
William Henry Harrison
BIRTH YEAR
1773
PARTY
Whig
TERM START
1841-03-04
TERM END
1841-04-04
VICE PRESIDENT
John Tyler
STATE OF BIRTH
Virginia
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison
SUMMARY
William Henry Harrison is the ninth president Whig party shortest presidency died thirty-one days inaugural address Virginia legacy.
NAME
John Tyler
BIRTH YEAR
1790
PARTY
Whig
TERM START
1841-04-04
TERM END
1845-03-04
VICE PRESIDENT
NULL
STATE OF BIRTH
Virginia
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tyler
SUMMARY
John Tyler is the tenth president Whig party annexation of Texas first vice president to succeed presidency one term Virginia legacy.
NAME
James K Polk
BIRTH YEAR
1795
PARTY
Democratic
TERM START
1845-03-04
TERM END
1849-03-04
VICE PRESIDENT
George M Dallas
STATE OF BIRTH
North Carolina
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_K._Polk
SUMMARY
James K Polk is the eleventh president Democratic party Mexican-American War Manifest Destiny Oregon Treaty one term North Carolina legacy.
NAME
Zachary Taylor
BIRTH YEAR
1784
PARTY
Whig
TERM START
1849-03-04
TERM END
1850-07-09
VICE PRESIDENT
Millard Fillmore
STATE OF BIRTH
Virginia
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary_Taylor
SUMMARY
Zachary Taylor is the twelfth president Whig party Mexican-American War hero died in office one term Virginia legacy.
NAME
Millard Fillmore
BIRTH YEAR
1800
PARTY
Whig
TERM START
1850-07-09
TERM END
1853-03-04
VICE PRESIDENT
NULL
STATE OF BIRTH
New York
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millard_Fillmore
SUMMARY
Millard Fillmore is the thirteenth president Whig party Compromise of 1850 one term New York legacy.
NAME
Franklin Pierce
BIRTH YEAR
1804
PARTY
Democratic
TERM START
1853-03-04
TERM END
1857-03-04
VICE PRESIDENT
William R King
STATE OF BIRTH
New Hampshire
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Pierce
SUMMARY
Franklin Pierce is the fourteenth president Democratic party Kansas-Nebraska Act Gadsden Purchase one term New Hampshire legacy.
NAME
James Buchanan
BIRTH YEAR
1791
PARTY
Democratic
TERM START
1857-03-04
TERM END
1861-03-04
VICE PRESIDENT
John C Breckinridge
STATE OF BIRTH
Pennsylvania
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Buchanan
SUMMARY
James Buchanan is the fifteenth president Democratic party Dred Scott decision pre Civil War one term Pennsylvania legacy.
NAME
Abraham Lincoln
BIRTH YEAR
1809
PARTY
Republican/National Union
TERM START
1861-03-04
TERM END
1865-04-15
VICE PRESIDENT
Hannibal Hamlin/Andrew Johnson
STATE OF BIRTH
Kentucky
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln
SUMMARY
Abraham Lincoln is the sixteenth president Republican party Civil War Emancipation Proclamation Gettysburg Address two terms Kentucky legacy.
NAME
Andrew Johnson
BIRTH YEAR
1808
PARTY
Democratic/National Union
TERM START
1865-04-15
TERM END
1869-03-04
VICE PRESIDENT
NULL
STATE OF BIRTH
North Carolina
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Johnson
SUMMARY
Andrew Johnson is the seventeenth president Democratic party Reconstruction impeachment one term North Carolina legacy.
NAME
Ulysses S Grant
BIRTH YEAR
1822
PARTY
Republican
TERM START
1869-03-04
TERM END
1877-03-04
VICE PRESIDENT
Schuyler Colfax/Henry Wilson
STATE OF BIRTH
Ohio
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant
SUMMARY
Ulysses S Grant is the eighteenth president Republican party Civil War general Reconstruction two terms Ohio legacy.
NAME
Rutherford B Hayes
BIRTH YEAR
1822
PARTY
Republican
TERM START
1877-03-04
TERM END
1881-03-04
VICE PRESIDENT
William A Wheeler
STATE OF BIRTH
Ohio
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford_B._Hayes
SUMMARY
Rutherford B Hayes is the nineteenth president Republican party Compromise of 1877 end of Reconstruction one term Ohio legacy.
NAME
James A Garfield
BIRTH YEAR
1831
PARTY
Republican
TERM START
1881-03-04
TERM END
1881-09-19
VICE PRESIDENT
Chester A Arthur
STATE OF BIRTH
Ohio
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield
SUMMARY
James A Garfield is the twentieth president Republican party assassinated after six months civil service reform Ohio legacy.
NAME
Chester A Arthur
BIRTH YEAR
1829
PARTY
Republican
TERM START
1881-09-19
TERM END
1885-03-04
VICE PRESIDENT
NULL
STATE OF BIRTH
Vermont
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_A._Arthur
SUMMARY
Chester A Arthur is the twenty-first president Republican party Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act one term Vermont legacy.
NAME
Grover Cleveland
BIRTH YEAR
1837
PARTY
Democratic
TERM START
1885-03-04
TERM END
1889-03-04
VICE PRESIDENT
Thomas A Hendricks
STATE OF BIRTH
New Jersey
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland
SUMMARY
Grover Cleveland is the twenty-second president Democratic party only president with non-consecutive terms vetoes one term New Jersey legacy.
NAME
Benjamin Harrison
BIRTH YEAR
1833
PARTY
Republican
TERM START
1889-03-04
TERM END
1893-03-04
VICE PRESIDENT
Levi P Morton
STATE OF BIRTH
Ohio
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Harrison
SUMMARY
Benjamin Harrison is the twenty-third president Republican party Sherman Antitrust Act electricity in White House one term Ohio legacy.
NAME
Grover Cleveland
BIRTH YEAR
1837
PARTY
Democratic
TERM START
1893-03-04
TERM END
1897-03-04
VICE PRESIDENT
Adlai E Stevenson I
STATE OF BIRTH
New Jersey
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland
SUMMARY
Grover Cleveland is the twenty-fourth president Democratic party only president with non-consecutive terms economic depression one term New Jersey legacy.
NAME
William McKinley
BIRTH YEAR
1843
PARTY
Republican
TERM START
1897-03-04
TERM END
14-09-1901
VICE PRESIDENT
Garret A Hobart/Theodore Roosevelt
STATE OF BIRTH
Ohio
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McKinley
SUMMARY
William McKinley is the twenty-fifth president Republican party Spanish-American War annexation of Hawaii assassinated Ohio legacy.
NAME
Theodore Roosevelt
BIRTH YEAR
1858
PARTY
Republican
TERM START
14-09-1901
TERM END
04-03-1909
VICE PRESIDENT
Charles W Fairbanks
STATE OF BIRTH
New York
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt
SUMMARY
Theodore Roosevelt is the twenty-sixth president Republican party Progressive Era Panama Canal Nobel Peace Prize two terms New York legacy.
NAME
William Howard Taft
BIRTH YEAR
1857
PARTY
Republican
TERM START
04-03-1909
TERM END
04-03-1913
VICE PRESIDENT
James S Sherman
STATE OF BIRTH
Ohio
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howard_Taft
SUMMARY
William Howard Taft is the twenty-seventh president Republican party only president Chief Justice trust busting one term Ohio legacy.
NAME
Woodrow Wilson
BIRTH YEAR
1856
PARTY
Democratic
TERM START
04-03-1913
TERM END
04-03-1921
VICE PRESIDENT
Thomas R Marshall
STATE OF BIRTH
Virginia
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson
SUMMARY
Woodrow Wilson is the twenty-eighth president Democratic party World War I League of Nations Fourteen Points two terms Virginia legacy.
NAME
Warren G Harding
BIRTH YEAR
1865
PARTY
Republican
TERM START
04-03-1921
TERM END
02-08-1923
VICE PRESIDENT
Calvin Coolidge
STATE OF BIRTH
Ohio
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_G._Harding
SUMMARY
Warren G Harding is the twenty-ninth president Republican party Teapot Dome scandal return to normalcy died in office Ohio legacy.
NAME
Calvin Coolidge
BIRTH YEAR
1872
PARTY
Republican
TERM START
02-08-1923
TERM END
04-03-1929
VICE PRESIDENT
Charles G Dawes
STATE OF BIRTH
Vermont
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge
SUMMARY
Calvin Coolidge is the thirtieth president Republican party Roaring Twenties small government two terms Vermont legacy.
NAME
Herbert Hoover
BIRTH YEAR
1874
PARTY
Republican
TERM START
04-03-1929
TERM END
04-03-1933
VICE PRESIDENT
Charles Curtis
STATE OF BIRTH
Iowa
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover
SUMMARY
Herbert Hoover is the thirty-first president Republican party Great Depression humanitarian one term Iowa legacy.
NAME
Franklin D Roosevelt
BIRTH YEAR
1882
PARTY
Democratic
TERM START
04-03-1933
TERM END
12-04-1945
VICE PRESIDENT
John N Garner/Henry A Wallace/Harry S Truman
STATE OF BIRTH
New York
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt
SUMMARY
Franklin D Roosevelt is the thirty-second president Democratic party New Deal World War II four terms longest serving New York legacy.
NAME
Harry S Truman
BIRTH YEAR
1884
PARTY
Democratic
TERM START
12-04-1945
TERM END
20-01-1953
VICE PRESIDENT
Alben W Barkley
STATE OF BIRTH
Missouri
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman
SUMMARY
Harry S Truman is the thirty-third president Democratic party atomic bomb end of World War II Marshall Plan two terms Missouri legacy.
NAME
Dwight D Eisenhower
BIRTH YEAR
1890
PARTY
Republican
TERM START
20-01-1953
TERM END
20-01-1961
VICE PRESIDENT
Richard Nixon
STATE OF BIRTH
Texas
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower
SUMMARY
Dwight D Eisenhower is the thirty-fourth president Republican party D-Day Interstate Highway System two terms Texas legacy.
NAME
John F Kennedy
BIRTH YEAR
1917
PARTY
Democratic
TERM START
20-01-1961
TERM END
22-11-1963
VICE PRESIDENT
Lyndon B Johnson
STATE OF BIRTH
Massachusetts
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy
SUMMARY
John F Kennedy is the thirty-fifth president Democratic party Cuban Missile Crisis New Frontier assassinated Massachusetts legacy.
NAME
Lyndon B Johnson
BIRTH YEAR
1908
PARTY
Democratic
TERM START
22-11-1963
TERM END
20-01-1969
VICE PRESIDENT
Hubert Humphrey
STATE OF BIRTH
Texas
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson
SUMMARY
Lyndon B Johnson is the thirty-sixth president Democratic party Great Society Civil Rights Act Vietnam War two terms Texas legacy.
NAME
Richard Nixon
BIRTH YEAR
1913
PARTY
Republican
TERM START
20-01-1969
TERM END
09-08-1974
VICE PRESIDENT
Spiro Agnew/Gerald Ford
STATE OF BIRTH
California
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon
SUMMARY
Richard Nixon is the thirty-seventh president Republican party Watergate China resignation California legacy.
NAME
Gerald Ford
BIRTH YEAR
1913
PARTY
Republican
TERM START
09-08-1974
TERM END
20-01-1977
VICE PRESIDENT
Nelson Rockefeller
STATE OF BIRTH
Nebraska
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford
SUMMARY
Gerald Ford is the thirty-eighth president Republican party only unelected president pardoned Nixon one term Nebraska legacy.
NAME
Jimmy Carter
BIRTH YEAR
1924
PARTY
Democratic
TERM START
20-01-1977
TERM END
20-01-1981
VICE PRESIDENT
Walter Mondale
STATE OF BIRTH
Georgia
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter
SUMMARY
Jimmy Carter is the thirty-ninth president Democratic party Camp David Accords Iran Hostage Crisis one term Georgia legacy.
NAME
Ronald Reagan
BIRTH YEAR
1911
PARTY
Republican
TERM START
20-01-1981
TERM END
20-01-1989
VICE PRESIDENT
George H W Bush
STATE OF BIRTH
Illinois
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan
SUMMARY
Ronald Reagan is the fortieth president Republican party Reaganomics end of Cold War two terms Illinois legacy.
NAME
George H W Bush
BIRTH YEAR
1924
PARTY
Republican
TERM START
20-01-1989
TERM END
20-01-1993
VICE PRESIDENT
Dan Quayle
STATE OF BIRTH
Massachusetts
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush
SUMMARY
George H W Bush is the forty-first president Republican party Gulf War one term Massachusetts legacy.
NAME
Bill Clinton
BIRTH YEAR
1946
PARTY
Democratic
TERM START
20-01-1993
TERM END
20-01-2001
VICE PRESIDENT
Al Gore
STATE OF BIRTH
Arkansas
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton
SUMMARY
Bill Clinton is the forty-second president Democratic party economic boom impeachment two terms Arkansas legacy.
NAME
George W Bush
BIRTH YEAR
1946
PARTY
Republican
TERM START
20-01-2001
TERM END
20-01-2009
VICE PRESIDENT
Dick Cheney
STATE OF BIRTH
Connecticut
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush
SUMMARY
George W Bush is the forty-third president Republican party September 11 War on Terror Iraq War two terms Connecticut legacy.
NAME
Barack Obama
BIRTH YEAR
1961
PARTY
Democratic
TERM START
20-01-2009
TERM END
20-01-2017
VICE PRESIDENT
Joe Biden
STATE OF BIRTH
Hawaii
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
SUMMARY
Barack Obama is the forty-fourth president Democratic party Affordable Care Act first African American president two terms Hawaii legacy.
NAME
Donald Trump
BIRTH YEAR
1946
PARTY
Republican
TERM START
20-01-2017
TERM END
20-01-2021
VICE PRESIDENT
Mike Pence
STATE OF BIRTH
New York
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump
SUMMARY
Donald Trump is the forty-fifth president Republican party business background impeachment COVID-19 one term New York legacy.
NAME
Joe Biden
BIRTH YEAR
1942
PARTY
Democratic
TERM START
20-01-2021
TERM END
20-01-2025
VICE PRESIDENT
Kamala Harris
STATE OF BIRTH
Pennsylvania
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden
SUMMARY
Joe Biden is the forty-sixth president Democratic party COVID-19 pandemic infrastructure bill Afghanistan withdrawal one term Pennsylvania legacy.