Presidents of the United States

	Name of the President		Term of Office	Political Party	Vice President
1	George Washington		1789 – 1797 (served two full terms)	None	John Adams  (1789 – 1797)
2	John Adams		1797 – 1801	Federalist	Thomas Jefferson (1797 – 1801)
3	Thomas Jefferson		1801 – 1809 (served two full terms)	Democratic-Republican	Aaron Burr (1801 – 1805) George Clinton (1805 – 1809)
4	James Madison		1809 -1817 (served two full terms)	Democratic-Republican	George Clinton (1809 – 1812) Elbridge Gerry (1813 – 1814)
5	James Monroe		1817 – 1825 (served two full terms)	Democratic-Republican	Daniel D. Tompkins (1817 – 1825)
6	John Quincy Adams		1825 – 1829	Democratic-Republican	John C. Calhoun (1825 – 1829)
7	Andrew Jackson		1829 – 1837 (served two full terms)	Democratic	John C. Calhoun (1829 – 1832) Martin Van Buren (1833 – 1837)
8	Martin Van Buren		1837 – 1841	Democratic	Richard M. Johnson (1837 – 1841)
9	William Henry Harrison		1841 (died in office)	Whig	John Tyler  (1841)
10	John Tyler		1841 – 1845 (came into office as VP)	Whig	Office remained vacant throughout the term
11	James Knox Polk		1845 – 1849	Democratic	George M. Dallas  (1845 – 1849)
12	Zachary Taylor		1849 – 1850 (died in office)	Whig	Millard Fillmore (1849 – 1850)
13	Millard Fillmore		1850 – 1853 (came into office as VP)	Whig	Office remained vacant throughout the term
14	Franklin Pierce		1853 – 1857	Democratic	William R. King (1853)
15	James Buchanan		1857 – 1861	Democratic	John C. Breckinridge (1857 – 1861)
16	Abraham Lincoln		1861 – 1865 (elected for two terms, assassinated during the second)	Republican	Hannibal Hamlin (1861 – 1865) Andrew Johnson (1865)
17	Andrew Johnson		1865 – 1869 (came into office as VP; impeached in 1868, acquitted by the Senate)	Democratic	Office remained vacant throughout the term
18	Ulysses S. Grant		1869 – 1877 (served two full terms)	Republican	Schuyler Colfax (1869 – 1873) Henry Wilson (1873 – 1877)
19	Rutherford Birchard Hayes		1877 – 1881	Republican	William A. Wheeler (1877 – 1881)
20	James Abram Garfield		1881 (assassinated when in office)	Republican	Chester Alan Arthur (1881)
21	Chester Alan Arthur		1881 – 1885 (came into office as VP)	Republican	Office remained vacant throughout the term
22	Grover Cleveland		1885 – 1889 (served two full terms, non-contiguously)	Democratic	Thomas A. Hendricks (1885 – 1889)
23	Benjamin Harrison		1889 – 1893	Republican	Levi P. Morton (1889 – 1893)
24	Grover Cleveland		1893 – 1897 (served two full terms, non-contiguously)	Democratic	Adlai E. Stevenson (1893 – 1897)
25	William McKinley		1897 – 1901	Republican	Garret A. Hobart (1897 – 1899) Theodore Roosevelt (1901)
26	Theodore Roosevelt		1901 – 1909 (served two full terms)	Republican	Charles Warren Fairbanks  (1905 – 1909)
27	William Howard Taft		1909 – 1913	Republican	James S. Sherman (1909 – 1912)
28	Woodrow Wilson		1913 – 1921 (served two full terms)	Democratic	Thomas R. Marshall (1913 – 1921)
29	Warren Gamaliel Harding		1921 – 1923 (died in office)	Republican	Calvin Coolidge (1921 – 1923)
30	Calvin Coolidge		1923 – 1929 (came into office as VP, re-elected for second term)	Republican	Charles G. Dawes (1925 – 1929)
31	Herbert Clark Hoover		1929 – 1933	Republican	Charles Curtis  (1929 – 1933)
32	Franklin Delano Roosevelt		1933 – 1945 (elected for four terms, died during the fourth)	Democratic	John N. Garner (1933 – 1941) Henry A. Wallace (1941 – 1945) Harry S. Truman (1945)
33	Harry S. Truman		1945 – 1953 (came into office as VP, re-elected for second term)	Democratic	Alben W. Barkley (1949 – 1953)
34	Dwight David Eisenhower		1953 – 1961 (served two full terms)	Republican	Richard Milhous Nixon (1953 – 1961)
35	John Fitzgerald Kennedy		1961 – 1963 (assassinated when in office)	Democratic	Lyndon Baines Johnson (1961 – 1963)
36	Lyndon Baines Johnson		1963 – 1969 (came into office as VP, re-elected for second term)	Democratic	Hubert H. Humphrey (1965 – 1969)
37	Richard Milhous Nixon		1969 – 1974 (elected for two terms, resigned in the second)	Republican	Spiro T. Agnew (1969 – 1973) Gerald Rudolph Ford (1973 – 1974)
38	Gerald Rudolph Ford		1974 – 1977 (came into office as VP)	Republican	Nelson A. Rockefeller (1974 – 1977)
39	James Earl Carter, Jr		1977 – 1981	Democratic	Walter F. Mondale (1977 – 1981)
40	Ronald Wilson Reagan		1981 – 1989 (served two full terms)	Republican	George Herbert Walker Bush (1981 – 1989)
41	George Herbert Walker Bush		1989 – 1993	Republican	J. Danforth Quayle (1989 – 1993)
42	William Jefferson Clinton		1993 – 2001 (served two full terms; impeached in 1998, acquitted by the Senate)	Democratic	Albert Gore, Jr. (1993 – 2001)
43	George W. Bush		2001 – 2009 (served two full terms)	Republican	Richard B. Cheney (2001 – 2009)
44	Barack Hussein Obama		2009 – 2017 (served two full terms)	Democratic	Joseph Robinette Biden (2009 – 2017)
45	Donald John Trump		2017 – 2021 (impeached in 2020 and 2021, acquitted by the Senate both times)	Republican	Mike Pence (2017 – 2021)
46	Joseph Robinette Biden		2021 –	Democratic	Kamala Harris (2021 – )

Frequently Asked Questions

• How many presidents have been impeached in American history? Who were they?

Three presidents have been impeached in American history. They were Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.

• Does impeachment remove a US president from office?

Impeachment by the House of Representatives alone cannot remove a sitting president from office. Once the articles of impeachment have been voted on and passed by the House, a trial is held in the Senate. The president is forced out only if they are convicted during this trial. In fact, no president has actually left office due to impeachment as they were all acquitted by the Senate.

• Can a US president hold office for 10 years?

Yes, a US president could hold office for 10 years. This can happen only when a vice president takes over the presidency with two years of the term left, and then wins election twice. If the VP serves more than two years of the previous president’s term however, they can stand for elections only one more time.

• How many US presidents have been from the Republican party and how many have been from the Democratic party?

Nineteen US presidents have been from the Republican party, while sixteen have been from the Democratic party.

• How much does the president of the United States make in a year?

The president of the United States receives a salary of $400,000 a year. Additionally, they are allotted a 50,000 annual expense account, $100,000 nontaxable travel account, and $19,000 for entertainment. They also receive a pension upon leaving office.

• What is executive privilege?

Executive privilege is a provision which allows the President of the United States and some other members of the executive office to withhold certain documents and communications they deem to be sensitive from the other two branches of the government – the legislature and the judiciary. This provision is not derived from the US Constitution, but rather, from common law and the principle of separation of powers.

The Supreme Court of the United States acknowledged this provision during United States v. Nixon, popularly known as Watergate. Recently, it has been invoked by former president Donald Trump in the matter of the January 6th attack on the Capitol to block the release of White House documents relating to the event. His requests, however, have been denied by the incumbent president and the Supreme Court.

In the News

• The Biden administration announced the release of $1.15 million to states to plug abandoned oil and gas wells that release methane, a climate changing gas, into the atmosphere. This funding is part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed in 2021.
• The White House announced that the US’ annual economic growth in 2021 surpassed that of China.
• The current POTUS, Joe Biden, completed a full year in office on January 21.
• The website to facilitate home delivery of COVID-19 test kits was launched on January 19th.
• On 13th January, the Supreme Court blocked a vaccine mandate announced by President Biden in September 2021.
• Beginning in December 2021, the White House has repeatedly expressed concerns about a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Related Resources

• The President Has Too Much Power Essay
• Advantages and Disadvantages of the Presidential Democracy System
• Presidential Election Process Analysis
• Abraham Lincoln: A Bad President
• Essay on Power of the President
• Inherent Powers of the President
• Caucus in Presidential Elections

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