Presidents of the United States (POTUS)

	POTUS		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 about Presidents of the United States

1. Who was the first US president?

The first president of the United States was George Washington. He had been among those who pushed for the Constitutional Convention. Once the Constitution had been ratified by all thirteen states, Washington was elected as president of the new nation by the Electoral College in 1789. 

2. Who is the youngest US president?

At the age of 43, John F. Kennedy was the youngest US president to be elected to the office. Assassinated three years later, he is also the youngest president to die.

The youngest president to take office, however, was Theodore Roosevelt. He became the POTUS when President McKinley was assassinated. Roosevelt was 42 years at the time.

3. Who is the oldest president of the US?

Joe Biden is the oldest US president, having been elected at the age of 77. By the time he took over the office in January 2021, he had turned 78. In June 2023, he began his campaign for re-election.

4. How many US presidents have there been?

As of 2023, there have been 46 US presidents. Of these, 19 have been from the Democratic party, while 16 have been Republicans. The remaining 11 presidents hailed either from now defunct political parties of from no party (George Washington).

5. How many presidents have been impeached in the USA?

As of 2023, three US presidents have been impeached. They were Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump (impeached twice). However, none of them was removed from office as a result of this; they were acquitted by the Senate during their impeachment trials.

6. How many US presidents have been assassinated?

Four US presidents have been assassinated while in office: Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy. Several other presidents have also been the targets of unsuccessful assassination attempts while in office, such as Andrew Jackson, Ronal Reagan, and Gerald Ford.

7. Who was the US president when the EU was founded?

Bill Clinton was the president of the United States in 1993 when the EU was founded. The European Union was formally established on November 1, 1993 by the Maastricht Treaty. Bill Clinton took office at the beginning oof that year, on January 20.

8. Which US Vice President did not resign from office?

No US Vice President has resigned from office, except for two: Spiro Agnew in 1973 and John C. Calhoun in 1832. All other VPs have either completed their terms in the office or taken over the President upon the latter’s death or resignation.

9. What university claims the most US presidents as alumni?

Harvard University claims eight US presidents as its alumni, which is the highest number from a single university. It is the oldest higher education institution in the country.

10. What is the salary of the president of the United States?

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.

11. 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 6, 2021 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.

POTUS in the News

• The Supreme Court upholds the president’s immigration enforcement policy, which has previously been blocked nationwide by a federal court in Texas.
• POTUS Joe Biden hosts India’s PM Narendra Modi during the latter’s State visit to the US. Several deals are signed, bolstering ties between the two nations.
• President Biden passes an executive order making access to contraception easier following the SCOTUS overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022.
• The president’s son, Hunter Biden, pleads guilty to federal tax offenses at the end of a five-year investigation into the matter.
• Former US president Donald Trump is indicted on charges of retention of classified government documents and obstruction of justice.
• President Joe Biden launches his campaign for re-election in the 2024 US presidential elections. 

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