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