Get to Know the 44 USA Presidents

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The President of the United States is the head of state and the head of government of the United States. As chief of the executive branch and head of the federal government as a whole, the presidency is the highest political office in the United States by influence and recognition. The president is also the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. armed forces. The president is indirectly elected to a four-year term by an Electoral College (or by the House of Representatives should the Electoral College fail to award an absolute majority of votes to any person). Since the ratification of the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1951, no person may be elected to the office of the president more than twice Upon death, resignation, or removal from office of an incumbent President, the Vice President assumes the office. This list includes only those persons who were sworn into office as president following the ratification of the United States Constitution, which took effect in 1789. For American leaders before this ratification, see President of the Continental Congress. The list does not include any Acting Presidents under the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution There have been forty-three people sworn into office, and forty-four presidencies, due to the fact that Grover Clevelandserved two non-consecutive terms and is counted chronologically as both the twenty-second and the twenty-fourth president. Of the individuals elected as president, four died in office of natural causes, one resigned, and four were assassinated. The first president was George Washington , who was inaugurated in 1789 after a unanimous Electoral College vote. William Henry Harrison spent the shortest time in office at 32 days. At over twelve years, Franklin D. Roosevelt spent the longest time in office, and is the only president to serve more than two terms. The current president is Barack Obama, who became president on January 20, 2009.

George Washington

April 30, 1789 March 4, 1797

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John Adams

March 4, 1797 March 4, 1801

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Thomas Jefferson

March 4, 1801 March 4, 1809

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James Madison

March 4, 1809 March 4, 1817

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James Monroe

March 4, 1817 March 4, 1825

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John Quincy Adams

March 4, 1825 March 4, 1829

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Andrew Jackson

March 4, 1829 March 4, 1837

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Martin Van Buren

March 4, 1837 March 4, 1841

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William Henry

March 4, 1841 April 4, 1841

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John Tyler

April 4, 1841 March 4, 1845

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James K. Polk

March 4, 1845 March 4, 1849

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Zachary Taylor

March 4, 1849 July 9, 1850

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Millard Fillmore

July 9, 1850 March 4, 1853

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Franklin Pierce

March 4, 1853 March 4, 1857

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James Buchanan

March 4, 1857 March 4, 1861

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Abraham Lincoln

March 4, 1861 April 15, 1865

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Andrew Johnson

1865 to 1869

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Ulysses S Grant

1869 to 1877

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Rutherford B. Hayes

March 4, 1877 March 4, 1881

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James A. Garfield

March 4, 1881 September 19, 1881

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Chester A. Arthur

September 19, 1881 March 4, 1885

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Grover Cleveland

March 4, 1885 March 4, 1889

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Benjamin Harrison

March 4, 1889 March 4, 1893

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Grover Cleveland

March 4, 1893 March 4, 1897

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William McKinley

March 4, 1897 September 14, 1901

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Theodore Roosevelt

September 14, 1901 March 4, 1909

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William Howard Taft

March 4, 1909 March 4, 1913

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Woodrow Wilson

March 4, 1913 March 4, 1921

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Warren G. Harding

March 4, 1921 August 2, 1923

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Calvin Coolidge

August 2, 1923 March 4, 1929

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Herbert Hoover

March 4, 1929 March 4, 1933

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

March 4, 1933 April 12, 1945

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Harry S. Truman

April 12, 1945 January 20, 1953

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

January 20, 1953 January 20, 1961

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John F. Kennedy

January 20, 1961 November 22, 1963

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Lyndon B. Johnson

November 22, 1963 January 20, 1969

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Lyndon B. Johnson

November 22, 1963 January 20, 1969

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Lyndon B. Johnson

November 22, 1963 January 20, 1969

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Richard Nixon

January 20, 1969 August 9, 1974

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Gerald Ford

August 9, 1974 January 20, 1977

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Jimmy Carter

January 20, 1977 January 20, 1981

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Ronald Reagan

January 20, 1981 January 20, 1989

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George H. W. Bush

January 20, 1989 January 20, 1993

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Bill Clinton

January 20, 1993 January 20, 2001

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George W. Bush

January 20, 2001 January 20, 2009

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Barack Obama

January 20, 2009 Incumbent.

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