Bowdoin Library general research guides for Government and Legal Studies
# | President | Selected collections of presidential papers, libraries, WH websites, oral histories |
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1 | George Washington 1789-1797 |
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2 | John Adams 1797-1801 |
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3 | Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809 |
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4 | James Madison 1809-1817 |
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5 | James Monroe 1817-1825 |
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6 | John Quincy Adams 1825-1829 |
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7 | Andrew Jackson 1829-1837 |
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8 | Martin Van Buren 1837-1841 |
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9 | William Henry Harrison 1841 |
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10 | John Tyler 1841-1845 |
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11 | James K. Polk 1845-1849 |
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12 | Zachary Taylor 1849-1850 |
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13 | Millard Fillmore 1850-1853 |
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14 | Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 |
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15 | James Buchanan 1857-1861 |
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16 | Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 |
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17 | Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 |
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18 | Ulysses S. Grant 1869-1877 |
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19 | Rutherford B. Hayes 1877-1881 |
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20 | James Garfield 1881-1881 |
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21 | Chester A. Arthur 1881-1885 |
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22 | Grover Cleveland 1885-1889 |
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23 | Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893 |
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24 | Grover Cleveland 1893-1897 |
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25 | William McKinley 1897-1901 |
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26 | Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909 |
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27 | William H. Taft 1909-1913 |
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28 | Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921 |
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29 | Warren G. Harding 1921-1923 |
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30 | Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929 |
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31 | Herbert C. Hoover 1929-1933 |
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32 | Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945 |
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33 | Harry S. Truman 1945-1953 |
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34 | Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953-1961 |
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35 | John F. Kennedy 1961-1963 |
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36 | Lyndon B. Johnson 1963-1969 |
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37 | Richard M. Nixon 1969-1974 |
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38 | Gerald R. Ford 1974-1977 |
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39 | Jimmy Carter 1977-1981 |
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40 | Ronald W. Reagan 1981-1989 |
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41 | George Herbert Walker Bush 1989-1993 |
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42 | William J. Clinton 1993-2001 |
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43 | George Walker Bush 2001-2009 |
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44 | Barack H. Obama 2009-2017 |
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45 | Donald J. Trump 2017-2021 |
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46 | Joseph R. Biden, Jr. 2021- |
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Presidential Libraries, National Archives and Records Administration For archived Executive Branch department websites, use the Wayback Machine from the Internet Archive. End of Term Web Archive, a collaborative effort to harvest "the Federal Government domains (.gov, .mil, .org, etc.)" at the end of one administration and "to document changes in the federal government websites as agencies transitioned" to the next. Digital Collections on Government, Law & Politics, including some presidential papers, from the Library of Congress. Vice Presidential Records. Information from the National Archives. Presidential Oral Histories, University of Virginia, Miller Center White House Transition Project. About Oral Histories, C-SPAN In Compass, search on: [your topic] AND ("oral histor*" OR archives OR correspondence) |
Please ask about other sources of presidential papers.
"'Mutilated by rats,' burned, trashed: 200 years of presidential papers lost," Ronald G. Shafer, Washington Post, 27 August 2022.