United States Presidents

There have been 43 individuals elected as 44 separate Presidencies in the United States. The first was George Washington, who was elected in 1789, and the current President is Barack Hussein Obama II, who is also the first minority President to be elected into office. There have been four Presidents who have been assassinated (Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Kennedy), four who died in office (W.H. Harrison, Taylor, Harding, F. Roosevelt), and one has resigned (Nixon). Two have been impeached but have not been forced to resign (Johnson, Clinton).

1-George Washington (No Party Affiliation) 1789-1797

2-John Adams (Federalist) 1797-1801

3-Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican) 1801-1809

4-James Madison (Democratic-Republican) 1809-1817

5-James Monroe (Democratic-Republican) 1817-1825

6-John Quincy Adams (Democratic-Republican) 1825-1829

7-Andrew Jackson (Democrat) 1829-1837

8-Martin Van Buren (Democrat) 1837-1841

9-William Henry Harrison (Whig) 1841 [Died in Office]

10-John Tyler (Whig) 1841-1845

11-James Knox Polk (Democrat) 1845-1849

12-Zachary Taylor (Whig) 1849-1850 [Died in Office]

13-Millard Fillmore (Whig) 1850-1853

14-Franklin Pierce (Democrat) 1853-1857

15-James Buchanan Jr. (Democrat) 1857-1861

16-Abraham Lincoln (Republican) 1861-1865 [Assassinated]

17-Andrew Johnson (Democrat) 1865-1869

18-Hiram Ulysses S. Grant (Republican) 1869-1877

19-Rutherford Birchard Hayes (Republican) 1877-1881

20-James Abram Garfield (Republican) 1881 [Assassinated]

21-Chester Alan Arthur (Republican) 1881-1885

22, 24-Stephen Grover Cleveland (Democrat) 1885-1889,1893-1897[Served two Non-consecutive Terms]

23-Benjamin Harrison (Republican) 1889-1893

25-William McKinley Jr. (Republican) 1897-1901 [Assassinated]

26-Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (Republican) 1901-1909

27-William Howard Taft (Republican) 1909-1913

28-Thomas Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) 1913-1921

29-Warren Gamaliel Harding (Republican) 1921-1923 [Assassinated]

30-John Calvin Coolidge Jr. (Republican) 1923-1929

31-Herbert Clark Hoover (Republican) 1929-1933

32-Franklin Delanoe Roosevelt (Democrat) 1933-1945 [Died in Office]

33-Harry S. Truman (Democrat) 1945-1953

34-Dwight David Eisenhower (Republican) 1953-1961

35-John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Democrat) 1961-1963 [Assassinated]

36-Lyndon Baines Johnson (Democrat) 1963-1969

37-Richard Milhous Nixon (Republican) 1969-1974 [Resigned]

38-Gerald Rudolph Ford (Republican) 1974-1977

39-James Earl Carter Jr. (Democrat) 1977-1981

40-Ronald Wilson Reagan (Republican) 1981-1989

41-George Herbert Walker Bush (Republican) 1989-1993

42-William Jefferson Clinton (Democrat) -1993-2001

43-George Walker Bush (Republican) 2001-2009

44-Barack Hussein Obama II (Democrat) 2009-