Use this list of U.S. Presidents to help you keep all of the names and dates straight for your next history exam... or Jeopardy appearance.
| # |
President |
Term |
Party |
Vice-President |
| 1. |
George Washington |
1789-1797 |
Federalist |
John Adams |
| 2. |
John Adams |
1797-1801 |
Federalist |
Thomas Jefferson |
| 3. |
Thomas Jefferson |
1801-1809 |
Democratic-Republican |
Aaron Burr (1801-1805);
George Clinton (1805-1809) |
| 4. |
James Madison |
1809-1817 |
Democratic-Republican |
George Clinton (1809-1812);
Elbridge Gerry (1813-1814) |
| 5. |
James Monroe |
1817-1825 |
Democratic-Republican |
Daniel D. Tompkins |
| 6. |
John Quincy Adams |
1825-1829 |
Democratic-Republican |
John C. Calhoun |
| 7. |
Andrew Jackson |
1829-1837 |
Democrat |
John C. Calhoun (1829-1832);
Martin Van Buren (1833-1837) |
| 8. |
Martin Van Buren |
1837-1841 |
Democrat |
Richard M. Johnson |
| 9. |
William Henry Harrison |
1841 |
Whig |
John Tyler |
| 10. |
John Tyler |
1841-1845 |
Whig |
None |
| 11. |
James Knox Polk |
1845-1849 |
Democrat |
George M. Dallas |
| 12. |
Zachary Taylor |
1849-1850 |
Whig |
Millard Fillmore |
| 13. |
Millard Fillmore |
1850-1853 |
Whig |
None |
| 14. |
Franklin Pierce |
1853-1857 |
Democrat |
William R. King |
| 15. |
James Buchanan |
1857-1861 |
Democrat |
John C. Breckinridge |
| 16. |
Abraham Lincoln |
1861-1865 |
Republican |
Hannibal Hamlin (1861-1865);
Andrew Johnson (1865) |
| 17. |
Andrew Johnson |
1865-1869 |
Democrat |
None |
| 18. |
Ulysses Simpson Grant |
1869-1877 |
Republican |
Schuyler Colfax (1869-1873);
Henry Wilson (1873-1875) |
| 19. |
Rutherford Birchard Hayes |
1877-1881 |
Republican |
William A. Wheeler |
| 20. |
James Abram Garfield |
1881 |
Republican |
Chester A. Arthur |
| 21. |
Chester Alan Arthur |
1881-1885 |
Republican |
None |
| 22. |
Grover Cleveland |
1885-1889 |
Democrat |
Thomas A. Hendricks |
| 23. |
Benjamin Harrison |
1889-1893 |
Republican |
Levi P. Morton |
| 24. |
Grover Cleveland |
1893-1897 |
Democrat |
Adlai E. Stevenson |
| 25. |
William McKinley |
1897-1901 |
Republican |
Garret A. Hobart (1897-1899);
Theodore Roosevelt (1901) |
| 26. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
1901-1909 |
Republican |
Charles Warren Fairbanks (1905-09) |
| 27. |
William Howard Taft |
1909-1913 |
Republican |
James S. Sherman (1909-1912) |
| 28. |
Woodrow Wilson |
1913-1921 |
Democrat |
Thomas R. Marshall |
| 29. |
Warren Gamaliel Harding |
1921-1923 |
Republican |
Calvin Coolidge |
| 30. |
Calvin Coolidge |
1923-1929 |
Republican |
Charles G. Dawes (1925-1929) |
| 31. |
Herbert Clark Hoover |
1929-1933 |
Republican |
Charles Curtis |
| 32. |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
1933-1945 |
Democrat |
John N. Garner (1933-1941);
Henry A. Wallace (1941-1945);
Harry S. Truman (1945) |
| 33. |
Harry S. Truman |
1945-1953 |
Democrat |
Alben W. Barkley (1949-53) |
| 34. |
Dwight David Eisenhower |
1953-1961 |
Republican |
Richard M. Nixon |
| 35. |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
1961-1963 |
Democrat |
Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| 36. |
Lyndon Baines Johnson |
1963-1969 |
Democrat |
Hubert H. Humphrey (1965–1969) |
| 37. |
Richard Milhous Nixon |
1969-1974 |
Republican |
Spiro T. Agnew (1969-73);
Gerald R. Ford (1973-74) |
| 38. |
Gerald Rudolph Ford |
1974-1977 |
Republican |
Nelson Rockefeller (1974 -1977) |
| 39. |
James Earl Carter, Jr. |
1977-1981 |
Democrat |
Walter Mondale (1977-1981) |
| 40. |
Ronald Wilson Reagan |
1981-1989 |
Republican |
George Herbert Walker Bush |
| 41. |
George Herbert Walker Bush |
1989-1993 |
Republican |
J. Danforth Quayle |
| 42. |
William Jefferson Clinton |
1993-2001 |
Democrat |
Albert Gore, Jr. |
| 43. |
George Walker Bush |
2001-2009 |
Republican |
Richard B. Cheney |
| 44. |
Barack Hussein Obama |
2009- |
Democrat |
Joseph R. Biden, Jr. |