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Presidents Of The Usa

1789-1797
George WASHINGTON
(1732-1799) - Federation
Bridges Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia
Married Martha Curtis
(1732-1802) a rich widow in 1759
He retired from the Presidency and died childless

1797-1801
John ADAMS
(1735-1826) - Federation
Braintree
(now Quincy), Massachusetts)

1801-1809
Thomas JEFFERSON
(1743-1826) - Republican
Shadwell, Albemarle County, Virginia
Retired from the Presidency

1809-1817
James MADISON
(1751-1836) - Republican
Port Conway, Virginia
Retired at the end of his second term

1817-1825
James MONROE
(1758-1831) - Republican
Westmoreland County, Virginia
Retired after serving for two terms

1825-1829
John Quincy ADAMS
(1767-1848) - Republican
Quincy, Massachusetts
(son of John Adams, above)

1829-1837
Andrew JACKSON
(1767-1845) - Democrat
Waxhaw, South Carolina
Retired after serving for two terms

1837-1841
Martin VAN BUREN
(1782-1862) - Democrat
Kinderhook, New York

1841
William Henry HARRISON
(1773-1841) - Whig
Charles City County, Virginia
Died of penumonia one month after being elected

1841-1845
John TYLER
(1790-1862) - Whig
Charles City County, Virginia
Took over from position of Vice-President

1845-1849
James Knox POLK
(1795-1849) - Democrat
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

1849-1850
Zachary TAYLOR
(1784-1850) - Whig
Orange County, Virginia
Died in office

1850-1853
Millard FILLMORE
(1800-1874) - Whig
Summer Hill, New York
Took over office as Vice-President

1853-1857
Franklin PIERCE
(1804-1869) - Democrat
Hillsborough, New Hampshire
Retired from politics in 1857

1857-1861
James BUCHANAN
(1791-1868) - Democrat
Stony Batter, nr. Mercersburg, Pennsylvania
Retired from politics

1861-1865
Abraham LINCOLN
(1809-1865) - Republican
Hodgenville, Kentucky
Married Mary Todd
(1818-82) in 1842
Shot by J Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre, Washington

1865-1869
Andrew JOHNSON
(1808-1875) - Republican
Raleigh, North Carolina

1869-1877
Ulysses Simpson GRANT
(1822-1885) - Republican
Point Pleasant, Ohio
Elected for two terms

1877-1881
Rutherford Birchard HAYES
(1822-1893) - Republican
Delaware, Ohio

1881
James Abram GARFIELD
(1831-1881) - Republican
Orange County, Ohio
Shot by Charles Guiteau, a disappointed office seeker, after only three months in office

1881-1885
Chester Alan ARTHUR
(1830-1886) - Republican
Fairfield, Vermont
As Vice-President he took over after Garfield's assassination

1885-1889
Grover CLEVELAND
(1837-1908) - Democrat
Caldwell, New Jersey

1889-1893
Benjamin HARRISON
(1833-1901) - Republican
North Bend, Ohio

1893-1897
Grover CLEVELAND
(1837-1908) - Democrat
Caldwell, New Jersey
The first President to serve for a second term having been out of office

1897-1901
William McKINLEY
(1843-1901) - Republican
Niles, Ohio
Shot by an anarchist, Leon F Czolgosz, in Buffalo, New York and died 8 days later

1901-1909
Theodore ROOSEVELT
(1858-1919) - Republican
New York
Served for two terms

1909-1913
William Howard TAFT
(1857-1930) - Republican
Cincinnati, Ohio

1913-1921
Thomas Woodrow WILSON
(1856-1924) - Democrat
Staunton, Virginia

1921-1923
Warren Gamaliel HARDING
(1865-1923) - Republican
Corsica, Ohio
Fell ill and died whilst in San Francisco. Died in office

1923-1929
Calvin COOLIDGE
(1872-1933) - Republican
Plymouth, Vermont
As Vice-President he took over when Harding died
Re-elected in 1924

1929-1933
Herbert Clark HOOVER
(1874-1964) - Republican
West Branch, Iowa

1933-1945
Franklin Delano ROOSEVELT
(1882-1945) - Democrat
Hyde Park, New York
[The only President to be elected for a third term, he even started a fourth in 1944]
Died in office, three weeks before the end of the Second World War

1945-1953
Harry S TRUMAN
(1884-1972) - Democrat
Lamar, Missouri
As Vice-President he took over on Roosevelt's death and was
re-elected in 1948

1953-1961
Dwight David EISENHOWER
(1890-1969) - Republican
Denison, Texas
Elected for two terms

1961-1963
John Fitzgerald KENNEDY
(1917-1963) - Democrat
Brookline, Massachusetts
Shot on 22 November in Dallas, supposedly by Lee Harvey Oswald,
who in turn was shot dead by Jack Ruby

1963-1969
Lyndon Baines JOHNSON
(1908-1973) - Democrat
Stonewall, Texas
As Vice-President took over when Kenedy was killed
Re-elected in 1964 but retired at the end of that term

1969-1974
Richard Milhous NIXON
(1913-1994) - Republican
Yorba Linda, California
Re-elected in 1972 but his political career was mortally damaged by the Watergate Scandal
and he was forced to resign or face impeachment

1974-1977
Gerald Rudolph FORD
(1913 - ) - Republican
Omaha, Nebraska
As Vice-President he took over from Nixon,
appointed under the provisions of the 25th Amendment

1977-1981
James Earl CARTER
(1924- ) - Democrat
Plains, Georgia

1981-1989
Ronald Wilson REAGAN
(1911- ) - Republican
Tampico, Illinois
Served for two terms

1989-1993
George Herbert Walker BUSH
(1924- ) - Republican
Milton, Massachusetts

1993-
William Jefferson Blythe IV CLINTON
(1946- ) - Democrat
Arkansas

George W Bush - Republican
Texas