
list of presidents of the United States
The president of the United States is perhaps the most powerful government person in the world as the leader of the country’s government. An electoral college method is used to elect the president to a four-year term. Since the adoption of the Twenty-second Amendment in 1951, the American presidency has been restricted to two terms.
The presidents of the United States are included in the table.
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1 | George Washington | Va. | Federalist | 1789–97 | |
2 | John Adams | Mass. | Federalist | 1797–1801 | |
3 | Thomas Jefferson | Va. | Democratic-Republican | 1801–09 | |
4 | James Madison | Va. | Democratic-Republican | 1809–17 | |
5 | James Monroe | Va. | Democratic-Republican | 1817–25 | |
6 | John Quincy Adams | Mass. | National Republican | 1825–29 | |
7 | Andrew Jackson | S.C. | Democratic | 1829–37 | |
8 | Martin Van Buren | N.Y. | Democratic | 1837–41 | |
9 | William Henry Harrison | Va. | Whig | 1841* | |
10 | John Tyler | Va. | Whig | 1841–45 | |
11 | James K. Polk | N.C. | Democratic | 1845–49 | |
12 | Zachary Taylor | Va. | Whig | 1849–50* | |
13 | Millard Fillmore | N.Y. | Whig | 1850–53 | |
14 | Franklin Pierce | N.H. | Democratic | 1853–57 | |
15 | James Buchanan | Pa. | Democratic | 1857–61 | |
16 | Abraham Lincoln | Ky. | Republican | 1861–65* | |
17 | Andrew Johnson | N.C. | Democratic (Union) | 1865–69 | |
18 | Ulysses S. Grant | Ohio | Republican | 1869–77 | |
19 | Rutherford B. Hayes | Ohio | Republican | 1877–81 | |
20 | James A. Garfield | Ohio | Republican | 1881* | |
21 | Chester A. Arthur | Vt. | Republican | 1881–85 | |
22 | Grover Cleveland | N.J. | Democratic | 1885–89 | |
23 | Benjamin Harrison | Ohio | Republican | 1889–93 | |
24 | Grover Cleveland | N.J. | Democratic | 1893–97 | |
25 | William McKinley | Ohio | Republican | 1897–1901* | |
26 | Theodore Roosevelt | N.Y. | Republican | 1901–09 | |
27 | William Howard Taft | Ohio | Republican | 1909–13 | |
28 | Woodrow Wilson | Va. | Democratic | 1913–21 | |
29 | Warren G. Harding | Ohio | Republican | 1921–23* | |
30 | Calvin Coolidge | Vt. | Republican | 1923–29 | |
31 | Herbert Hoover | Iowa | Republican | 1929–33 | |
32 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | N.Y. | Democratic | 1933–45* | |
33 | Harry S. Truman | Mo. | Democratic | 1945–53 | |
34 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Texas | Republican | 1953–61 | |
35 | John F. Kennedy | Mass. | Democratic | 1961–63* | |
36 | Lyndon B. Johnson | Texas | Democratic | 1963–69 | |
37 | Richard M. Nixon | Calif. | Republican | 1969–74** | |
38 | Gerald R. Ford | Neb. | Republican | 1974–77 | |
39 | Jimmy Carter | Ga. | Democratic | 1977–81 | |
40 | Ronald Reagan | Ill. | Republican | 1981–89 | |
41 | George Bush | Mass. | Republican | 1989–93 | |
42 | Bill Clinton | Ark. | Democratic | 1993–2001 | |
43 | George W. Bush | Conn. | Republican | 2001–09 | |
44 | Barack Obama | Hawaii | Democratic | 2009–17 | |
45 | Donald Trump | N.Y. | Republican | 2017–21 | |
46 | Joe Biden | Pa. | Democratic | 2021– |