All 46 Presidents of the United States of America

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Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)

16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)

Andrew Johnson(1865-1869)

17th President of the United States, A Southerner form Tennessee, as V.P. when Lincoln was killed, he became president. He opposed radical Republicans who passed Reconstruction Acts over his veto. The first U.S. president to be impeached, he survived the Senate removal by only one vote. He was a very weak president.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

32nd US President - He began New Deal programs to help the nation out of the Great Depression, and he was the nation's leader during most of WWII

Harry S. Truman (1945-1953)

33rd president of the United States

Dwight D. Eisenhower

34th U.S. President. 1953-1961. Republican

Lyndon B. Johnson

36th U.S. President. 1963-1969. of the Democratic party

George Washington

First President of the United States

Richard M. Nixon (1969-1974)

Richard Nixon was elected the 37th President of the United States (1969-1974) after previously serving as a U.S. Representative and a U.S. Senator from California. After successfully ending American fighting in Vietnam and improving international relations with the U.S.S.R. and China, he became the only President to ever resign the office, as a result of the Watergate scandal.

James Garfield assassinated, 1881

20th president, Republican, assassinated by Charles Julius Guiteau after a few months in office due to lack of patronage

Chester A. Arthur

21st president of the United States

Grover Cleveland

22nd and 24th president, Democrat, Honest and hardworking, fought corruption, vetoed hundreds of wasteful bills, achieved the Interstate Commerce Commission and civil service reform, violent suppression of strikes

Benjamin Harrison(1889-1893)

23rd President of the United States

John Tyler (1841-1845)

10th President of the United States of America

James K.Polk (1845-1849)

11th President of the United States

Zachary Taylor (1849-50)

12th president - was president when the issue of slavery expanding west became a debate; died in office after acquiring an illness; nickname was "Old Rough and Ready" for his heroism during the Mexican-American War

Millard Fillmore (1850-1853)

13th President of the United States

Franklin Pierce (1853-1857)

14th president - signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act into law, "Bleeding Kansas"

Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881)

19th president of the united states, was famous for being part of the Hayes-Tilden election in which electoral votes were contested in 4 states, most corrupt election in US history

Grover Cleveland 1893-1897

24th President, Democrat of the United States

William McKinley(1897-1901

25th president responsible for Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, and the Annexation of Hawaii, imperialism. Is assassinated by an anarchist

Theodore Roosevelt

26th president, known for: conservationism, trust-busting, Hepburn Act, safe food regulations, "Square Deal," Panama Canal, Great White Fleet, Nobel Peace Prize for negotiation of peace in Russo-Japanese War

William Howard Taft (1909-1913)

27th president of the U.S.; he angered progressives by moving cautiously toward reforms and by supporting the Payne-Aldrich Tariff; he lost Roosevelt's support and was defeated for a second term.

Woodrow Wilson

28th president of the United States, known for World War I leadership, created Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, Clayton Antitrust Act, progressive income tax, lower tariffs, women's suffrage (reluctantly), Treaty of Versailles, sought 14 points post-war plan, League of Nations (but failed to win U.S. ratification), won Nobel Peace Prize

Warren G. Harding

29th President of the United States

John Adams (1797-1801)

2nd President of the United States

James Carter (1977-1981)

39th President

Thomas Jefferson

3rd President of the United States

George H.W. Bush (1989-1993)

41st President of the Republican party

William J. Clinton (1993-2001)

42nd President

George W. Bush (2001-2009)

43rd president of the US who began a campaign toward energy self-sufficiency and against terrorism in 2001

Barack Obama (2009-2017)

44th President, Democrat

Donald Trump (Republican)2017

45th President of the United States

Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Joe Biden Biden

46th President of the United States of America

James Madison (1809-1817)

4th President of the United States

James Monroe (1817-1825)

5th President of the United States

John Quincy Adams (1825-1829)

6th President of the United States; Author of Monroe Doctrine

Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)

8th president - Secretary of State under Jackson; replaced Calhoun as vice president when Jackson was re-elected president - Panic of 1837

William Henry Harrison

9th president. Hero of the Battle of Tippecanoe. Nominated as the Whig's presidential candidate for 1840. Proven vote getter. Military hero who expressed few opinions on national issues and had not political record to defend.

Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)

In 1865, as commanding general, Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. As an American hero, Grant was later elected the 18th President of the United States (1869-1877), working to implement Congressional Reconstruction and to remove the vestiges of slavery

James Buchanan (1857-1861)

The 15th President of the United States (1857-1861). He tried to maintain a balance between proslavery and antislavery factions, but his moderate views angered radicals in both North and South, and he was unable to forestall the secession of South Carolina on December 20, 1860.

Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)

The 30th President of the United States after the death of Warren G. Harding; Elected in his own right in 1924, he gained a reputation as a small government conservative. He restored public confidence in the White House after the scandals of his predecessor's administration and left office with considerable popularity.

Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)

The 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression; tried to combat the ensuing Great Depression in the United States with large-scale government public works projects such as the Hoover Dam and calls on industry to keep wages high. He reluctantly approved the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930, which sent foreign trade spiralling down. He believed it was essential to balance the budget despite falling tax revenue, so he raised the tax rates.

John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)

The 35th President of the United States; served at the height of the Cold War, and much of his presidency focused on managing relations with the Soviet Union. He increased the number of American military advisers in South Vietnam. Was assassinated in 1963.

Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)

The 40th President of the United States; His supply-side economic policies, dubbed "Reaganomics", advocated tax rate reduction to spur economic growth, economic deregulation, and reduction in government spending.

Gerald R. Ford (1974-1977)

a. 38th President b. only President never elected by the people c. Whip Inflation Now program (1974) d. End of OPEC embargo (1974) e. Helsinki accords (1975)

Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)

the 7th president of the US as well as a frontier settler and Indian fighter who had little sympathy for Indians and passed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 which allowed him to eventually remove Indians by force


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