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Presidential Documents: Pres. Terms

Publications of the President or the Executive Office of the President.

The Presidents of the United States

# President Vice President Term Party
1 George Washington John Adams
John Adams
1789-1793
1793-1797
None
2 John Adams Thomas Jefferson 1797-1801 Federalist
3 Thomas Jefferson Aaron Burr
George Clinton
1801-1805
1805-1809
Democratic-Republican
4 James Madison George Clinton
Elbridge Gerry
1809-1813
1813-1817
Democratic-Republican
5 James Monroe Daniel D. Tompkins 1817-1821
1821-1825
Democratic-Republican
6 John Quincy Adams John C. Calhoun 1825-1829 Democratic-Republican
7 Andrew Jackson John C. Calhoun
Martin Van Buren
1829-1833
1833-1837
Democrat
8 Martin Van Buren Richard M. Johnson 1837-1841 Democrat
9 William Henry Harrison John Tyler 1841 Whig
10 John Tyler None 1841-1845 Whig
11 James K. Polk George M. Dallas 1845-1849 Democrat
12 Zachary Taylor Millard Fillmore 1849-1850 Whig
13 Millard Fillmore None 1850-1853 Whig
14 Franklin Pierce William R. King 1853-1857 Democrat
15 James Buchanan John C. Breckinridge 1857-1861 Democrat
16 Abraham Lincoln Hannibal Hamlin
Andrew Johnson
1861-1865
1865
Republican
17 Andrew Johnson None 1865-1869 Democrat
18 Ulysses S. Grant Schuyler Colfax
Henry Wilson
1869-1873
1873-1877
Republican
19 Rutherford B. Hayes William A. Wheeler 1877-1881 Republican
20 James Garfield Chester A. Arthur 1881-1881 Republican
21 Chester A. Arthur None 1881-1885 Republican
22 Grover Cleveland Thomas A. Hendricks 1885-1889 Democratic
23 Benjamin Harrison Levi P. Morton 1889-1893 Republican
24 Grover Cleveland Adlai E. Stevenson 1893-1897 Democratic
25 William McKinley Garret A. Hobart
Theodore Roosevelt
1897-1901
1901
Republican
26 Theodore Roosevelt Charles W. Fairbanks 1901-1905
1905-1909
Republican
27 William H. Taft James S. Sherman 1909-1913 Republican
28 Woodrow Wilson Thomas R. Marshall 1913-1917
1917-1921
Democrat
29 Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge 1921-1923 Republican
30 Calvin Coolidge Charles G. Dawes 1923-1925
1925-1929
Republican
31 Herbert C. Hoover Charles Curtis 1929-1933 Republican
32 Franklin D. Roosevelt John N. Garner
Henry A. Wallace
Harry S. Truman
1933-1937
1937-1941
1941-1945
1945
Democrat
33 Harry S. Truman Alben Barkley 1945-1949
1949-1953
Democrat
34 Dwight D. Eisenhower Richard M. Nixon 1953-1961 Republican
35 John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson 1961-1963 Democrat
36 Lyndon B. Johnson None
Hubert H. Humphrey
1963-1965
1965-1968
Democrat
37 Richard M. Nixon Spiro T. Agnew
Gerald R. Ford
1969-1973
1973-1974
Republican
38 Gerald R. Ford Nelson A. Rockefeller 1974-1977 Republican
39 Jimmy Carter Walter F. Mondale 1977-1981 Democrat
40 Ronald W. Reagan George H.W. Bush 1981-1985
1985-1989
Republican
41 George Herbert Walker Bush Dan Quayle 1989-1993 Republican
42 William J. Clinton Albert Gore Jr. 1993-1997
1997-2001
Democrat
43 George Walker Bush Richard B. Cheney 2001-2005
2005-2009
Republican
44 Barack H. Obama Joseph R. Biden, Jr. 2009-2013
2013-2017
Democrat
45 Donald J. Trump Mike Pence 2017-2021 Republican
46 Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Kamala Harris 2021- Democrat

Source: Originally based on "The Presidents of the United States", Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids,
Government Publishing Office. (Site not available on 12 August 2015.)