Name That President: Pictorial Presidential Quiz

Barack Obama

He is the 44th and current President of the United States, the first African American to hold the office. He previously served in the Illinois Senate and the U.S. Senate.

Thomas Jefferson

Was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and the third President of the United States (1801-1809).

John Quincy Adams

Was an American statesman who served as the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. He also served as a diplomat, a Senator and member of the House of Representatives.

James Madison

Was an American statesman, political theorist and the fourth President of the United States (1809-1817). He is hailed as the "Father of the Constitution" for being instrumental in the drafting of the United States Constitution

James K. Polk

Was the 11th President of the United States (1845-1849) and led the nation to a sweeping victory in the Mexican-American War, which gave the United States most of its present Southwest.

Zachary Taylor

Was the 12th President of the United States (1849-1850) and the second President to die while in office.

Millard Fillmore

Was the 13th President of the United States (1850-1853), the last Whig president, and the last president not to be affiliated with either the Democratic or Republican parties

Franklin Pierce

Was the 14th President of the United States (1853-1857). His polarizing actions in championing and signing the Kansas-Nebraska Act and enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act failed to stem intersectional conflict, setting the stage for Southern secession.

James Buchanan

Was the 15th President of the United States (1857-1861), serving immediately prior to the American Civil War.

Ulysses S. Grant

Was the 18th President of the United States (1869-1877) and led the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Was the 19th President of the United States (1877-1881). As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction and attempted to reconcile the divisions left over from the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Chester A. Arthur

Was the 21st President of the United States (1881-85); he succeeded James Garfield upon the latter's assassination.

Grover Cleveland

Was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms.

William McKinley

Was the 25th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897, until his assassination on September 14, 1901.

Theodore Roosevelt

Was the 26th President of the United States (1901-1909). He is known for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement.

William Howard Taft

Was the 27th President of the United States (1909-1913) and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921-1930). He is the only person to have served in both of these offices.

Woodrow Wilson

Was the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921 and leader of the Progressive Movement. He is the only U.S. President to have held a Ph.D.

Warren G. Harding

Was the 29th President of the United States (1921-23),and served in the Ohio Senate and then in the United States Senate. He died while serving as President.

Calvin Coolidge

Was the 30th President of the United States (1923-1929). He was elected as the 29th Vice President in 1920 and succeeded to the Presidency upon the sudden death of Warren G. Harding in 1923.

Herbert Hoover

Was the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933). He was in office during the 1929 stock market crash which lead to the Great Depression.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Was the 32nd President of the United States (1933-1945), leading the United States through the Great Depression and World War 2.

Harry S. Truman

Was the 33rd President of the United States (1945-53). Under his Presidency, the Allies successfully concluded World War II; in the aftermath of the conflict, tensions with the Soviet Union increased, marking the start of the Cold War.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Was the 34th President of the United States (1953-1961). He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe.

John F. Kennedy

Was the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Was the 36th President of the United States (1963-1969), a position he assumed after the assination of President John F. Kennedy.

Richard Nixon

Was the 37th President of the United States (1969-1974), and was the only president to resign the office. He previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961.

Gerald Ford

Was the 38th President of the United States (1974-1977), assuming the office after the resignation of President Richard Nixon. He is the only President to hold the office that was neither elected President or Vice President.

Jimmy Carter

Was the 39th President of the United States (1977-1981). He was a peanut farmer who served two terms as a Georgia State Senator and one as the Governor of Georgia.

Ronald Reagan

Was the 40th President of the United States (1981-89). He was an actor and served as the 33rd Governor of California before his presidency.

George H. W. Bush

Was the 41st President of the United States (1989-1993). He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States, a congressman, an ambassador to China, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Bill Clinton

Was the 42nd President of the United States (1993-2001). Before becoming president, he was the Governor of Arkansas for five terms and the state's Attorney General.

George W. Bush

Was the 43rd President of the United States (2001-2009), and the 46th Governor of Texas. His father served as the 41st President of the United States (1989-1993).

Martin Van Buren

Was the eighth President of the United States (1837-1841). Before his presidency, he was Vice President (1833-1837) and secretary of state (1829-1831), both under Andrew Jackson.

James Monroe

Was the fifth President of the United States (1817-1825) and the last president who was a Founding Father of the United States.

George Washington

Was the first President of the United States (1789-1797), the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

William Henry Harrison

Was the ninth President of the United States (1841), an American military officer and politician, and the first president to die in office.

John Adams

Was the second president of the United States (1797-1801),[2] having earlier served as the first vice president of the United States (1789-1797).

Andrew Jackson

Was the seventh President of the United States (1829-1837) and gained national fame through his role in the War of 1812, where he won decisive victories over the Indians and then over the British.

John Tyler

Was the tenth President of the United States (1841-1845) and first Vice President to become president after the death of a sitting President.

James A. Garfield

Was the the 20th President of the United States (1881). His presidency lasted just 200 days—from March 4, 1881, until his death on September 19, 1881, as a result of being shot by an assassin.

Abraham Lincoln

Wasthe 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He led the United States through its Civil War.

Andrew Johnson

Wasthe 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. He became president as a result of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination.