Parties

No party

Federalist

President

George Washington
1

(17321799)
[11][12][13]

Democratic-Republican

Took Office

Democratic

Left Office

Whig

Republican

Party

Term

[n 1]

1
April 30, 1789
[n 2]

March 4, 1797

Independent

[14]

(1789)

Vice President

Commander-in-Chiefof the
Continental Army

John Adams

(17751783)

(1792)

John Adams
2

(17351826)

March 4, 1797

[15][16][17]

March 4, 1801
[n 3]

(17431826)

3
(1796)

Vice President

March 4, 1801

March 4, 1809

[18][19][20]

DemocraticRepublican

(1800)

Thomas
Jefferson
Aaron Burr

Thomas Jefferson
3

Federalist

March 4, 1801 March

Vice President

4, 1805

George

(1804)

Clinton[n 4]
March 4, 1805 April
20, 1812

Vacant[n 5]

(1808)

April 20, 1812 March 4, 1813

James Madison
4

(17511836)

March 4, 1809

March 4, 1817

[21][22][23]

Democratic-

Secretary of State

Elbridge Gerry[n

Republican

(18011809)

4]

March 4, 1813

(1812)

November 23, 1814

Vacant[n 5]
November 23, 1814 March 4, 1817

James Monroe
(17581831)

March 4, 1817

March 4, 1825

Democratic-

Secretary of State

(1816)

(18111817)

Daniel D.

Republican

[24][25][26]

Tompkins

(1820)

John Quincy Adams

6

(17671848)

March 4, 1825

[27][28][29]

March 4, 1829

Democratic-

10

Secretary of State

[n 3]

Republican

(1824)

(18171825)

John C.
Calhoun[n 6]
March 4, 1825
December 28, 1832

11
Andrew Jackson
7

(17671845)

Vacant[n 5]

(1828)

March 4, 1829

March 4, 1837

U.S. Senator from Tennessee

Democratic

[30][31][32]

(18231825)

December 28, 1832 March 4, 1833

Martin Van

12

Buren

(1832)

March 4, 1833 March

4, 1837

Martin Van Buren

8

(17821862)

March 4, 1837

[33][34][35]

March 4, 1841
[n 3]

Democratic

13
(1836)

Vice President

Richard Mentor
Johnson

William Henry
9

Harrison
(17731841)

March 4, 1841

April 4, 1841
[n 4]

Minister to Colombia

Whig

(18281829)

John Tyler

[36][37][38]

John Tyler
10

(17901862)

April 4, 1841

March 4, 1845

[39][40][41]

Whig

14

April 4, 1841

(1840)

September 13, 1841

Vice President

Independent[n 8]

[n 7]

Vacant[n 5]

September 13, 1841

March 4, 1845

James K. Polk
11

(17951849)

March 4, 1845

March 4, 1849

Democratic

March 4, 1849

July 9, 1850

Whig

[42][43][44]

12

Zachary Taylor
(17841850)

15

Governor of Tennessee

George M.

(1844)

(18391841)

Dallas

U.S. Army Major generalfrom

Millard Fillmore

16
(1848)

[45][46][47]

the 1st Infantry Regiment

[n 4]

(18461849)

Millard Fillmore
13

(18001874)

July 9, 1850

[48][49][50]

March 4, 1853
[n 9]

Whig

Vice President

Vacant[n 5]
William R.

Franklin Pierce
14

(18041869)

March 4, 1853

March 4, 1857

Democratic

[51][52][53]

17
(1852)

U.S. Army Brigadier generalfrom

the 9th Infantry Regiment
(1847-1848)

King[n 4]
March 4, 1853 April
18, 1853

Vacant[n 5]
April 18, 1853 March 4, 1857

James Buchanan
15

(17911868)

March 4, 1857

March 4, 1861

Democratic

[54][55][56]

18

Minister to the United Kingdom

John C.

(1856)

(18531856)

Breckinridge
Hannibal

Republican
Abraham Lincoln
16

(18091865)

March 4, 1861

[57][58][59]

19

Hamlin

(1860)

March 4, 1861 March

April 15, 1865

U.S. Representativefrom Illinois

4, 1865

[n 10]

(18471849)

Andrew

Republican
National Union[n 11]

Democratic

Andrew Johnson
17

(18081875)

April 15, 1865

March 4, 1869

[60][61][62]

(18221885)
[63][64][65]

March 4, 1865 April

20

15, 1865

(1864)

Vice President

National Union[n 11]

Independent[n 12]
21

Ulysses S. Grant
18

Johnson

March 4, 1869

March 4, 1877

Republican

(1868)

22
(1872)

Vacant
[n 5]

Schuyler Colfax
Commanding Generalof the U.S.

March 4, 1869 March

Army

4, 1873

(18641869)

Henry Wilson[n
4]

March 4, 1873
November 22, 1875

Vacant[n 5]
November 22, 1875 March 4, 1877

Rutherford B. Hayes
19

(18221893)

March 4, 1877

March 4, 1881

Republican

[66][67][68]

(18311881)

March 4, 1881

[69][70][71]

Chester A. Arthur
21

(18291886)
[72][73][74]

Governor of Ohio

William A.

(1876)

(18681872, 18761877)

Wheeler

U.S. Representative from Ohio

Chester A.

(18631881)

Arthur

September 19,

James A. Garfield
20

23

1881

Republican

[n 10]

September 19,
1881

24
(1880)

March 4, 1885

Republican

Vice President

Vacant[n 5]
Thomas A.
Hendricks[n 4]

Grover Cleveland
22

(18371908)

March 4, 1885

[75][76]

March 4, 1889
[n 3]

Democratic

25

Governor of New York

March 4, 1885

(1884)

(18831885)

November 25, 1885

Vacant[n 5]
November 25, 1885 March 4, 1889

Benjamin Harrison
23

(18331901)

March 4, 1889

March 4, 1893

Republican

March 4, 1893

March 4, 1897

Democratic

[77][78][79]

Grover Cleveland
24

(18371908)
[75][76]

25

(18431901)
[80][81][82]

March 4, 1897

1901
[n 10]

U.S. Senator from Indiana

(1888)

(18811887)

27

President

Adlai Stevenson

(1892)

(18851889)

Levi P. Morton

Garret Hobart[n

September 14,

William McKinley

26

Republican

28

Governor of Ohio

4]

(1896)

(18921896)

March 4, 1897
November 21, 1899

Vacant[n 5]
November 21, 1899 March 4, 1901

Theodore
Roosevelt
29

March 4, 1901

(1900)

September 14, 1901

Vacant[n 5]
Theodore Roosevelt
26

(18581919)
[83][84][85]

September 14, 1901 March 4, 1905

September 14,

March 4, 1909

1901

[n 9]

Republican

30

Vice President

(1904)

Charles W.
Fairbanks
March 4, 1905 March
4, 1909

James S.
Sherman[n 4]

William Howard Taft

27

(18571930)

March 4, 1909

[86][87][88]

March 4, 1913
[n 3]

Republican

31

Secretary of War

March 4, 1909

(1908)

(19041908)

October 30, 1912

Vacant[n 5]
October 30, 1912 March 4, 1913

32

Woodrow Wilson
28

(18561924)

March 4, 1913

March 4, 1921

Democratic

[89][90][91]

(1912)

Governor of New Jersey

Thomas R.

33

(19111913)

Marshall

(1916)

Warren G. Harding
29

(18651923)
[92][93][94]

March 4, 1921

August 2, 1923
[n 4]

Republican

U.S. Senator from Ohio

34

(19151921)

(1920)

Vacant[n 5]

Calvin Coolidge
30

(18721933)
[95][96][97]

Calvin Coolidge

August 2, 1923 March 4, 1925

August 2, 1923 March 4, 1929

Republican

35
(1924)

Vice President

Charles G.
Dawes
March 4, 1925 March

4, 1929

Herbert Hoover
31

(18741964)

March 4, 1929

[98][99][100]

March 4, 1933
[n 3]

Republican

36

Secretary of Commerce

(1928)

(19211928)

37

John Nance

(1932)

Garner

[n 13]

March 4, 1933

38

(18821945)

January 20, 1941

(1936)

Franklin D. Roosevelt
32

Charles Curtis

March 4, 1933

[101][102][103]

April 12, 1945

[n 4]

Democratic

Governor of New York

39

(19291932)

(1940)

Henry A.
Wallace
January 20, 1941
January 20, 1945

Harry S. Truman
January 20, 1945

40

April 12, 1945

(1944)

April 12, 1945 January 20, 1949

Harry S. Truman
33

(18841972)

Vacant[n 5]

April 12, 1945

[104][105][106]

January 20,
1953

Democratic

41

Vice President

(1948)

Alben W.
Barkley
January 20, 1949
January 20, 1953

Dwight D. Eisenhower
34

(18901969)
[107][108][109]

January 20,
1953

42

January 20,
1961

Republican

[n 14]

(1952)

43

Supreme Allied Commander

Europe

Richard Nixon

(19491952)

(1956)

John F. Kennedy
35

(19171963)
[110][111][112]

January 20,
1961

November 22,
1963
[n 10]

Democratic

44

U.S. Senatorfrom Massachusetts

Lyndon B.

(1960)

(19531960)

Johnson

Vacant[n 5]
November 22, 1963 January 20,

Lyndon B. Johnson
36

(19081973)
[113][114]

November 22,

January 20,

1963

1969

1965

Democratic

Vice President

Hubert

45

Humphrey

(1964)

January 20, 1965

January 20, 1969

46

Spiro Agnew[n 6]

(1968)

January 20, 1969

October 10, 1973

Richard Nixon
37

(19131994)
[115][116][117]

January 20,

August 9, 1974

1969

[n 6]

Vice President

Republican

(19531961)

Vacant[n 5]
October 10, 1973 December 6, 1973

Gerald Ford
December 6, 1973

47

August 9, 1974

(1972)

August 9, 1974 December 19, 1974

Gerald Ford
38

(19132006)

Vacant[n 5]

August 9, 1974

[118][119][120]

January 20,
1977

Republican

Vice President

Nelson
Rockefeller
December 19, 1974
January 20, 1977

Jimmy Carter
39

(born 1924)
[121][122][123]

Ronald Reagan
40

(19112004)
[124][125][126]

January 20,
1977

January 20,
1981

Democratic

[n 3]

48

Governor of Georgia

(1976)

(19711975)

Walter Mondale

49
January 20,

January 20,

1981

1989

Republican

(1980)

Governor of California

George H. W.

50

(19671975)

Bush

Vice President

Dan Quayle

(1984)

41

George H. W. Bush

January 20,

January 20,

Republican

51

(born 1924)

1989

[127][128][129]

Bill Clinton
42

(born 1946)
[130][131][132]

1993

(1988)

[n 3]

52
January 20,

January 20,

1993

2001

Democratic

(1992)

Governor of Arkansas

53

(19791981, 19831992)

Al Gore

(1996)

George W. Bush
43

(born 1946)
[133][134][135]

54
January 20,

January 20,

2001

2009

Republican

(2000)

Governor of Texas

55

(19952000)

Dick Cheney

(2004)

Barack Obama
44

(born 1961)
[136][137][138]

56
January 20,
2009

Incumbent

Democratic

(2008)

U.S. Senator from Illinois

57

(20052008)

(2012)

Joe Biden