Get to Know the 44 USA Presidents

George Washington (February 22, 1732 to December 14, 1799) was the 1st President of the United States of America from 1789 to 1797. The Continental Congress appointed Washington commander-in-chief of the American revolutionary forces in 1775, and he...

John Adams (October 30, 1735 - July 4, 1826) was the second President of the United States (1797-1801). Adams came to prominence in the early stages of the American Revolution. As a delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress, he played...

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826) was the 3rd President of the United States (1801-1809), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals...

James Madison (March 16, 1751 - June 28, 1836) was fourth President of the United States (1809-1817), and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was considered to be the "Father of the Constitution" , as he was the principal author of...

James Monroe <.b>(April 28, 1758 - July 4, 1831) was the 5th President of the United States (1817-1825). His administration was marked by the acquisition of Florida (1819), the Missouri Compromise (1820), the admission of Maine in 1820 as a free...

John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 - February 23, 1848) served as the 6th President of the United States from March 4, 1825 to March 4, 1829. Adams was born to John Adams, Jr. and Abigail Adams in what is now Quincy, Massachusetts In 1779 Adams began...

Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 - June 8, 1845) was the 7th President of the United States (1829-1837). He was military governor of Florida (1821), commander of the American forces at the Battle of New Orleans (1815), and eponym of the era of Jacksoni...

Martin Van Buren (December 5, 1782 - July 24, 1862) was the eighth President of the United States from 1837 to 1841. Before his presidency, he served as the eighth Vice President (1833-1837) and the 10th Secretary of State under Andrew Jackson. He wa...

William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 - April 4, 1841) was an American military officer and politician, the 9th President of the United States, and the first president to die in office. The oldest president elected (until Ronald Reagan in 1980), a...

John Tyler, Jr. (March 29, 1790 - January 18, 1862) was the 10th President of the United States (1841-1845) and the first ever to obtain that office via succession. Arguably the most famous and significant achievement of Tyler's administration was t...

James Knox Polk (November 2, 1795 - June 15, 1849) was the 11th President of the United States (1845-1849). Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, but mostly lived in and represented the state of Tennessee. A Democrat, Polk served as S...

Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 - July 9, 1850) was the 12th President of the United States Known as "Old Rough and Ready," Taylor had a 40-year military career in the U.S. Army, serving in the War of 1812, Black Hawk War, and Second Seminole War...

Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 - March 8, 1874) was the 13th President of the United States, serving from 1850 until 1853 and the last member of the Whig Party to hold that office. He was the second Vice President to assume the presidency upon the...

Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804 - October 8, 1869) was the 14th President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857, a politician and lawyer. Pierce was a Democrat and a "doughface" (a Northerner with Southern sympathies) who served in the U...

James Buchanan (April 23, 1791 - June 1, 1868) was the 15th President of the United States from 1857-1861 and the last to be born in the 18th century. To date he is the only President from the state of Pennsylvania and the only to remain a lifelong...

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States from 1860. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. Lincol...

Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 - July 31, 1875) was the 17th President of the United States (1865-69), succeeding to the Presidency upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He was the first U.S. President to be impeached. At the time of the sec...

  Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant) (April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the eighteenth president of the United States of America from 1869 to 1877. The son of an Appalachian Ohio tanner, Grant entered the United States Military...

Rutherford Birchard Hayes (October 4, 1822 - January 17, 1893) was an American politician, lawyer, military leader and the 19th President of the United States (1877-1881). Hayes was elected President by one electoral vote after the highly disputed el...

James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 - September 19, 1881) was the 20th President of the United States. His death, two months after being shot and six months after his inauguration, made his tenure the second shortest (after William Henry Harrison...

Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 - November 18, 1886) served as the 21st President of the United States. Arthur was a member of the Republican Party and worked as a lawyer before becoming the 20th vice president under James Garfield. While Garfie...

Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 - June 24, 1908) was both the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. Cleveland is the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms (1885-1889 and 1893-1897) and therefore is the only individual to...

Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 - March 13, 1901) was the 23rd President of the United States, serving one term from 1889 to 1893. During the American Civil War Harrison served as a Brigadier General in the XXI Corps of the Army of the Cumberland...

Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 - June 24, 1908) was both the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. Cleveland is the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms (1885-1889 and 1893-1897) and therefore is the only individual to...

William McKinley (January 29, 1843 - September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States, and the last veteran of the American Civil War to be elected. By the 1880s, McKinley was a national Republican leader, with his signature issue bei...

Theodore D. Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 - January 6, 1919), also known as T.R., and to the public as Teddy, was the 26th President of the United States. He was also a professional historian, naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier. He is m...

William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 - March 8, 1930) was the 27th President of the United States. Born in 1857 in Cincinnati, Ohio, into the powerful Taft family, Taft graduated from Yale College in 1878, and later graduated from Cincinnati Law...

Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Ph.D. (December 28, 1856-February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States. A leading intellectual of the Progressive Era, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor o...

Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 - August 2, 1923) was the 29th President of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. A Republican from Ohio, Harding was an influential newspaper publisher. He served in the Ohio Senate...

John Calvin Coolidge. (July 4, 1872 - January 5, 1933) was the 30th President of the United States (1923-1929). A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of...

Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 - October 20, 1964) was the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933). Besides his political career, Hoover was a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States. He was a central figure of the 20th century during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war. E...

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 - December 26, 1972) was the 33rd President of the United States (1945-1953). During World War I Truman had served as an artillery officer, and after the war he became part of the political machine of Tom Pendergast and...

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 - March 28, 1969) was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He had been a five-star general in the United States Army, and during the Second World War, he served as Supreme Comma...

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. After Kennedy's military service as commander o...

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 - January 22, 1973) served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969 after his service as the Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963. Johnson, a Democrat, succeeded to the pres...

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 - January 22, 1973) served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969 after his service as the Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963. Johnson, a Democrat, succeeded to the pres...

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 - January 22, 1973) served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969 after his service as the Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963. Johnson, a Democrat, succeeded to the pres...

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 - April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States (1969-1974) and the only president to resign the office. He was also the 36th Vice President of the United States (1953-1961). Nixon was born in Yor...

Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.) (July 14, 1913 - December 26, 2006) was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974. Before asc...

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924), was the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize. Prior to becoming president, Carter served two terms in the Georgia Senate foll...

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981-1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967-1975). Born in Tampico, Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s. He began...

President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. He held a variety of political positions prior to his presidency, including Vice President of the United States in the administration of Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) and Director of Central Intelligence...

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924), was the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize. Prior to becoming president, Carter served two terms in the Georgia Senate foll...

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He was the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000 before being sworn in as President on January 20, 2001. Bush is the eldest son of the 41s...

Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. The first African American to hold the office, Obama had previously been the junior United States Senator from Illinois, serving from January 2005 unt...