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{| class="wikitable"
| colspan="12" |Presidents of the United States
|-
|
|Name
|Date of Birth
|Place of Birth
|Party Affiliation
|Term
|Vice President
|Selected major events during presidency
|Main Opponent(s) at Election
|First lady
|Misc.
|Date of Death
|-
| rowspan="2" |1
|George Washington
| rowspan="2" |22 Feb 1732
| rowspan="2" |Popes Creek, Virginia
| rowspan="2" |Independent
|1789 - 1793
|John Adams
| rowspan="2" |Bill of Rights (1789) / Supreme Court (1789) / First Bank of the United States (1791)
|n.a.
| rowspan="2" |Martha (née Dandridge, previously married to Daniel Custis)
| rowspan="2" |City of Washington founded (1791) / House at Mount Vernon
| rowspan="2" |14 Dec 1799
|-
|George Washington
|1793 - 1797
|John Adams
|n.a.
|-
|2
|John Adams
|30 Oct 1735
|Braintree, Mass.
|Federalist
|1797 - 1801
|Thomas Jefferson
|Library of Congress founded (1800) / Louisiana Purchase (1803)
|Thomas Jefferson
|Abigail (née Smith)
|House at Peacefield
|4 July 1826
|-
| rowspan="2" |3
|Thomas Jefferson
| rowspan="2" |13 Apr 1743
| rowspan="2" |Goochland County, Virginia
| rowspan="2" |Democratic-Republican
|1801 -1805
|Aaron Burr
| rowspan="2" |Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves (1807)
|John Adams
| rowspan="2" |Martha (née Wayles)
| rowspan="2" |Possibly had 6 children with slave Sally Hemings / House at Monticello
| rowspan="2" |4 July 1826
|-
|Thomas Jefferson
|1805 -1809
|George Clinton
|Charles C. Pinckney
|-
| rowspan="2" |4
|James Madison
| rowspan="2" |16 Mar 1751
| rowspan="2" |Port Conway, Virginia
| rowspan="2" |Democratic-Republican
|1809 - 1813
|George Clinton (1809/12)
| rowspan="2" |War of 1812 (1812-15) - White House and Capitol burned (1814)
|Charles C. Pinckney
| rowspan="2" |Dolley (née Todd)
| rowspan="2" |House at Montpelier
| rowspan="2" |28 Jun 1836
|-
|James Madison
|1813 - 1817
|Elbridge Gerry (1813/14)
|DeWitt Clinton
|-
| rowspan="2" |5
|James Monroe
| rowspan="2" |28 Apr 1758
| rowspan="2" |Westmoreland County, Virginia
| rowspan="2" |Democratic-Republican
|1817 -1821
| rowspan="2" |Daniel D. Tompkins
| rowspan="2" |1st Seminole War (1817/18) / Missouri Compromise (1820) prohibiting slavery north of the 36°30′ parallel
|Rufus King
| rowspan="2" |Elizabeth (née Kortright)
| rowspan="2" |Monroe Doctrine opposing European colonialism in the Americas (1823)
| rowspan="2" |4 July 1831
|-
|James Monroe
|1821 - 1825
|n.a.
|-
|6
|John Quincy Adams
|11 Jul 1767
|Braintree, Mass.
|Democratic-Republican
|1825 - 1829
|John C. Calhoun
|
|Andrew Jackson
|Louisa (née Johnson)
|Son of John Adams
|23 Feb 1848
|-
| rowspan="2" |7
|Andrew Jackson
| rowspan="2" |15 Mar 1767
| rowspan="2" |Waxhaw, South Carolina
| rowspan="2" |Democrat
|1829 - 1833
|John C. Calhoun (1829–32)
| rowspan="2" |Petticoat Affair scandal (1829) / Nat Turner's slave revolt (1831) / Black Hawk War (1832) / Whig Party formed (1834)
|John Quincy Adams
| rowspan="2" |Rachel (née Donelson)
| rowspan="2" |Assassination attempt by Richard Lawrence at Capitol on 30 Jan 1835
| rowspan="2" |8 Jun 1845
|-
|Andrew Jackson
|1833 - 1837
|Martin Van Buren (1833–37)
|Henry Clay
|-
|8
|Martin Van Buren
|5 Dec 1782
|Kinderhook, New York
|Democrat
|1837 - 1841
|Richard Mentor Johnson
|'Panic of 1837' financial crisis
|William Henry Harrison / Hugh L. White
|Hannah (née Hoes)
|
|24 Jul 1862
|-
|9
|William Henry Harrison
|9 Feb 1773
|Charles City County, Virginia
|Whig
|1841 (died in office)
|John Tyler
|
|Martin Van Buren
|Anna (née Symmes)
|Died after only 1 month in office
|4 Apr 1841
|-
|10
|John Tyler
|29 Mar 1790
|Charles City County, Virginia
|Whig
|1841 - 1845
|n.a.
|End of 2nd Seminole War (1835-1842)
|n.a.
|Letitia (née Christian) d. 1842 / Julia (née Gardiner)
|
|18 Jan 1862
|-
|11
|James Knox Polk
|2 Nov 1795
|Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
|Democratic
|1845 - 1849
|George M. Dallas
|Annexation of Texas (1845) / Mexican - American War (1846 - 1848) / California Gold Rush begins (1848)
|Henry Clay
|Sarah (née Childress)
|
|15 Jun 1849
|-
|12
|Zachary Taylor
|24 Nov 1784
|Orange County, Virginia
|Whig
|1849 - 1850
|Millard Fillmore
|
|Lewis Cass / Martin Van Buren
|Margaret (née Smith)
|Died in office
|9 Jul 1850
|-
|13
|Millard Fillmore
|7 Jan 1800
|Cayuga County, New York
|Whig
|1850 - 1853
|n.a.
|Compromise of 1850 between slave and free states inc Fugitive Slave Act
|n.a.
|Abigail (née Powers)
|
|8 Mar 1874
|-
|14
|Franklin Pierce
|23 Nov 1804
|Hillsborough, New Hampshire
|Democrat
|1853 - 1857
|William R. King
(Mar–Apr 1853)
|Kansas–Nebraska Act (1854) overturns Missouri Compromise / 3rd Seminole War (1855-1858)
|Winfield Scott
|Jane (née Appleton)
|
|8 Oct 1869
|-
|15
|James Buchanan
|23 Apr 1791
|Cove Gap, Pennsylvania
|Democrat
|1857 - 1861
|John C. Breckinridge
|John Brown's Harpers Ferry raid (1859) / Confederate States of America formed Feb 1861
|John C. Frémont / Millard Fillmore
|Unmarried
|
|1 Jun 1868
|-
| rowspan="2" |16
|Abraham Lincoln
| rowspan="2" |12 Feb 1809
| rowspan="2" |Hardin County, Kentucky
|Republican
|1861-1865
|Hannibal Hamlin
| rowspan="2" |American Civil War (1861-1865) / 13th Amendment abolishes slavery (1865)
|John C. Breckinridge
| rowspan="2" |Mary (née Todd)
| rowspan="2" |Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre, Washington DC
| rowspan="2" |15 Apr 1865
|-
|Abraham Lincoln
|National Unity
|1865
|Andrew Johnson
|George B. McClellan
|-
|17
|Andrew Johnson
|29 Dec 1808
|Raleigh, North Caroilna
|Democrat-Union
|1865 - 1869
|n.a.
|End of Civil War / Alaska purchased from Russia (1867)
|n.a.
|Eliza (née McCardle)
|
|31 Jul 1875
|-
| rowspan="2" |18
|Ulysses S. Grant
| rowspan="2" |27 Apr 1822
| rowspan="2" |Point Pleasant, Ohio
| rowspan="2" |Republican
|1869 - 1873
|Schuyler Colfax
| rowspan="2" |Amnesty Act (1872) / Yellowstone (1st National Park) (1872) / 'Panic of 1873' / Civil Rights Act (1875) / Battle of the Little Big Horn (1876)
|Horatio Seymour
| rowspan="2" |Julia (née Dent)
| rowspan="2" |Birth name: Hiram Ulysses Grant
| rowspan="2" |23 Jul 1885
|-
|Ulysses S. Grant
|1873 - 1877
|Henry Wilson (1873-1875)
|Horace Greeley
|-
|19
|Rutherford Burchard Hayes
|4 Oct 1822
|Delaware, Ohio
|Republican
|1877 - 1881
|William A. Wheeler
|End of Reconstruction / Great Railroad Strike (1877)
|Samuel J. Tilden
|Lucy (née Webb) (aka 'Lemonade Lucy'
|
|17 Jan 1893
|-
|20
|James Abram Garfield
|19 Nov 1831
|Orange, Ohio
|Republican
|1881
|Chester A. Arthur
|
|Winfield S. Hancock
|Lucretia (née Rudolph)
|Assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau at Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station, Washington DC
|19 Sep 1881
|-
|21
|Chester Alan Arthur
|5 Oct 1829
|Fairfield, Vermont
|Republican
|1881 - 1885
|n.a.
|Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
|n.a.
|Ellen (née Herndon)
|
|18 Nov 1886
|-
|22
|Grover Cleveland
|18 Mar 1837
|Caldwell, New Jersey
|Democrat
|1885 - 1889
|Thomas A. Hendricks (1885)
|Haymarket massacre, Chicago (1886)
|James G. Blaine
|Frances (née Folsom) m.1886
|
|24 Jun 1908
|-
|23
|Benjamin Harrison
|20 Aug 1833
|North Bend, Ohio
|Republican
|1889 - 1893
|Levi P. Morton
|Wounded Knee massacre (1890)
|Grover Cleveland
|Caroline ( née Scott) d.1892
|
|13 Mar 1901
|-
|24
|Grover Cleveland
|18 Mar 1837
|Caldwell, New Jersey
|Democrat
|1893 - 1897
|Adlai Stevenson
|Plessy v Ferguson (1896) establishes "separate but equal" racial segregation
|Benjamin Harrison / James B. Weaver
|Frances (née Folsom)
|Only President to serve non-consecutive terms
|24 Jun 1908
|-
| rowspan="2" |25
|William McKinley
| rowspan="2" |29 Jan 1843
| rowspan="2" |Niles, Ohio
| rowspan="2" |Republican
|1897 - 1901
|Garret Hobart (1897–1899)
| rowspan="2" |Spanish-American War (1898)
|William Jennings Bryan
| rowspan="2" |Ida (née Saxton)
| rowspan="2" |Assassinated by Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo
| rowspan="2" |14 Sep 1901
|-
|William McKinley
|1901
|Theodore Roosevelt (1901)
|William Jennings Bryan
|-
| rowspan="2" |26
|Theodore Roosevelt
| rowspan="2" |27 Oct 1858
| rowspan="2" |New York City
| rowspan="2" |Republican
|1901 - 1905
|n.a.
| rowspan="2" |Bureau of Investigation (BOI) founded (1908) - becomes FBI in 1935
|n.a.
| rowspan="2" |Alice (née Lee) d. 1884
Edith (née Carow)
| rowspan="2" |Youngest person to become President (not youngest to be elected) / Nobel Peace Prize (1906) for role in ending Russo-Japanese War
| rowspan="2" |6 Jan 1919
|-
|Theodore Roosevelt
|1905 - 1909
|Charles W. Fairbanks
|Alton B. Parker
|-
|27
|William Howard Taft
|15 Sep 1857
|Cincinnati, Ohio
|Republican
|1909 - 1913
|James S. Sherman
(1909–1912)
|Dollar Diplomacy' - use of economic rather than military power to further US aims / 16th Amendment introduces income tax
|William Jennings Bryan
|Helen (née Herron)
|Famously had a very large bath installed in the White House to cope with his girth
|8 Mar 1930
|-
| rowspan="2" |28
|Woodrow Wilson
| rowspan="2" |28 Dec 1856
| rowspan="2" |Staunton, Virginia
| rowspan="2" |Democrat
|1913 - 1917
| rowspan="2" |Thomas R. Marshall
| rowspan="2" |First World War / 18th Amendment introduces prohibition (1919) / 19th Amendment gives women the vote (1920)
|Theodore Roosevelt
| rowspan="2" |Ellen (née Axson) d. 1914)
Edith (née Bolling) m. 1915
| rowspan="2" |Nobel Peace Prize (1919) for proposing League of Nations which US then refused to join
| rowspan="2" |3 Feb 1924
|-
|Woodrow Wilson
|1917 - 1921
|Charles Evans Hughes
|-
|29
|Warren Gamalial Harding
|2 Nov 1865
|Corsica, Ohio
|Republican
|1921 - 1923
|Calvin Coolidge
|Emergency Quota Act (1921) restricts immigration / Teapot Dome scandal
|James M. Cox
|Florence (née Kling)
|Died in office
|2 Aug 1923
|-
| rowspan="2" |30
|Calvin Coolidge
| rowspan="2" |4 Jul 1872
| rowspan="2" |Plymouth, Vermont
|Republican
|1923 - 1925
|n.a.
| rowspan="2" |Immigration Act (1924) stopped immigration from Asia and set quotas on immigration from the Eastern Hemisphere
|n.a.
| rowspan="2" |Grace (née Goodhue)
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |5 Jan 1933
|-
|Calvin Coolidge
|Republican
|1925 - 1929
|Charles G. Dawes
|John W. Davis / Robert M. La Follette
|-
|31
|Herbert Hoover
|10 Aug 1874
|West Branch, Iowa
|Republican
|1929 - 1933
|Charles Curtis
|Start of Great Depression (1929)
|Al Smith
|Lou (née Henry)
|
|20 Oct 1864
|-
| rowspan="4" |32
|Franklin Delano Roosevelt
| rowspan="4" |30 Jan 1882
| rowspan="4" |Hyde Park, New York
| rowspan="4" |Democrat
|1933 - 1937
|John Nance Garner
| rowspan="4" |'New Deal' / Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA - 1933) / 21st Amendment repeals prohibition (1933) / Neutrality Act (1935) prohibits sale of weapons to warring nations / Lend-Lease Act (1941) / Pearl Harbor (1941) - Second World War
|Herbert Hoover
| rowspan="4" |Eleanor (née Roosevelt)
| rowspan="4" |Assassination attempt by Giuseppe Zangara in Miami (1933 - before first inauguration) / Died in office
| rowspan="4" |12 Apr 1945
|-
|Franklin Delano Roosevelt
|1937 - 1941
|John Nance Garner
|Alf Landon
|-
|Franklin Delano Roosevelt
|1941 - 1945
|Henry A. Wallace
|Wendell Willkie
|-
|Franklin Delano Roosevelt
|1945
|Harry S. Truman
|Thomas E. Dewey
|-
| rowspan="2" |33
|Harry S. Truman
| rowspan="2" |8 May 1884
| rowspan="2" |Lamar, Missouri
| rowspan="2" |Democrat
|1945 - 1949
|n.a.
| rowspan="2" |CIA created (1947) / Ends racial discrimination in the military (1948) / Berlin Airlift (1948) / Recognises State of Israel 11 minutes after it declared itself a nation (1948) / McCarthyism / Korean War (1950 -1953)
|n.a.
| rowspan="2" |Bess (née Wallace)
| rowspan="2" |Assassination attempt by Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo at Blair House on 1 Nov 1950 whilst White House being renovated
| rowspan="2" |26 Dec 1972
|-
|Harry S. Truman
|1949 - 1953
|Alben W. Barkley
|Thomas E. Dewey / Strom Thurmond
|-
| rowspan="2" |34
|Dwight David Eisenhower
| rowspan="2" |14 Oct 1890
| rowspan="2" |Denison, Texas
| rowspan="2" |Republican
|1953 - 1957
| rowspan="2" |Richard Nixon
| rowspan="2" |Interstate Highway System (1956)
|Adlai Stevenson II
| rowspan="2" |Mamie (née Doud)
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |28 Mar 1969
|-
|Dwight David Eisenhower
|1957 - 1961
|Adlai Stevenson II
|-
|35
|John Fitzgerald Kennedy
|29 May 1917
|Brookline, Mass.
|Democrat
|1961 - 1963
|Lyndon B. Johnson
|Peace Corps created (1961) / Bay of Pigs (1961) / Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) / Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963)
|Richard Nixon
|Jacqueline (née Bouvier)
|Youngest person to be elected President / 1st Catholic elected President / Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas
|22 Nov 1963
|-
| rowspan="2" |36
|Lyndon Baines Johnson
| rowspan="2" |27 Aug 1908
| rowspan="2" |Stonewall, Texas
| rowspan="2" |Democrat
|1963 - 1965
|n.a.
| rowspan="2" |Civil Rights Acts (1964 & 1968) / Voting Rights Act (1965) / Medicare & Medicaid (1965) / Vietnam War (1965-1975)
|n.a.
| rowspan="2" |Claudia 'Lady Bird' (née Taylor)
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |22 Jan 1973
|-
|Lyndon Baines Johnson
|1965 - 1969
|Hubert Humphrey
|Barry Goldwater
|-
| rowspan="2" |37
|Richard Milhous Nixon
| rowspan="2" |9 Jan 1913
| rowspan="2" |Yorba Linda, California
| rowspan="2" |Republican
|1969 - 1973
|Spiro Agnew (1969–Oct 1973)
| rowspan="2" |1st manned moon landing (1969) / Strategic Arms Limitation (SALT I 1972) / Roe V Wade abortion legislation (1973) / Watergate Scandal (1972-1974)
|Hubert Humphrey / George Wallace
| rowspan="2" |Patricia (née Ryan)
| rowspan="2" |Resigned from office 8 Aug 1974 (1st President to do so)
| rowspan="2" |22 Apr 1994
|-
|Richard Milhous Nixon
|1973 - 1974
|Gerald Ford
|George McGovern
|-
|38
|Gerald Ford
|14 Jul 1913
|Omaha, Nebraska
|Republican
|1974 - 1977
|Nelson Rockefeller (1974–1977)
|Proclamation 4311 grants Nixon a full and unconditional pardon (8 Sep 1974) / End of Vietnam War (1975) / Bi-centennial celebrations (1976)
|n.a.
|Elizabeth 'Betty' (née Bloomer; formerly Warren)
|Birth name: Leslie Lynch King / Assassination attempts by Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme and Sara Jane Moore (both 1975)
|26 Dec 2006
|-
|39
|Jimmy Carter
|1 Oct 1924
|Plains, Georgia
|Democrat
|1977 - 1981
|Walter Mondale
|Camp David Accords (1978) / Iran hostage crisis (1979-1981) / SALT II (1979)
|Gerald Ford
|Rosalynn (née Smith)
|Nobel Peace Prize (2002) for "decades" of peace work
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |40
|Ronald Reagan
| rowspan="2" |6 Feb 1911
| rowspan="2" |Tampico, Illinois
| rowspan="2" |Republican
|1981 - 1985
|George H. W. Bush
| rowspan="2" |Iran-Contra affair (1986) / Space Shuttle 'Challenger' disaster (1986) / Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF 1988)
|Jimmy Carter / John B. Anderson
| rowspan="2" |Nancy (née Davis). He was previously married to actress Jane Wyman
| rowspan="2" |Assasination attempt by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, D.C. (1981)
| rowspan="2" |5 Jun 2004
|-
|Ronald Reagan
|1985 -1989
|George H. W. Bush
|Walter Mondale
|-
|41
|George Herbert Walker Bush
|12 Jun 1924
|Milton, Mass.
|Republican
|1989 - 1993
|Dan Quayle
|Gulf War (1990-1991) / Rodney King verdict riots (1992)
|Michael Dukakis
|Barbara (née Pierce)
|
|30 Nov 2018
|-
| rowspan="2" |42
|Bill Clinton
| rowspan="2" |19 Aug 1946
| rowspan="2" |Hope, Arkansas
| rowspan="2" |Democrat
|1993 - 1997
| rowspan="2" |Al Gore
| rowspan="2" |North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA 1993) / Monica Lewinsky scandal (1996)
|George H. W. Bush / Ross Perot
| rowspan="2" |Hillary (née Rodham)
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |
|-
|Bill Clinton
|1997 -2001
|Bob Dole / Ross Perot
|-
| rowspan="2" |43
|George Walker Bush
| rowspan="2" |6 Jul 1946
| rowspan="2" |New Haven, Connecticut
| rowspan="2" |Republican
|2001 - 2005
| rowspan="2" |Dick Cheney
| rowspan="2" |9/11 terrorist attacks (2001) / Patriot Act (2001) / Invasion of Afghanistan (2001) / Invasion of Iraq (2003) / Financial Crisis (2007-2008)
|Al Gore
| rowspan="2" |Laura (née Welch)
| rowspan="2" |Son of George H. W. Bush
| rowspan="2" |
|-
|George Walker Bush
|2005 - 2009
|John Kerry
|-
| rowspan="2" |44
|Barack Obama
| rowspan="2" |4 Aug 1961
| rowspan="2" |Honolulu, Hawaii
| rowspan="2" |Democrat
|2009 - 2013
| rowspan="2" |Joe Biden
| rowspan="2" |Affordable Care Act (ACA) (aka Obamacare) (2010) / Killing of Osama Bin Laden (2011) / same-sex marriage legalized nationwide (2015)
|John McCain
| rowspan="2" |Michelle (née Robinson)
| rowspan="2" |2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
| rowspan="2" |
|-
|Barack Obama
|2013 - 2017
|Mitt Romney
|-
|45
|Donald Trump
|14 Jun 1946
|Queens, New York City
|Republican
|2017 - 2021
|Mike Pence
|United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA 2018) replaces NAFTA / Abraham Accords joint normalization statements between Israel, United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain (2020) / COVID-19 pandemic (2020)
|Hillary Clinton
|Melania (née Knauss) / previous wives:
Ivana Zelníčková &
Marla Maples
|
|
|-
|46
|Joe Biden
|20 Nov 1942
|Scranton, Pennsylvania
|Democrat
|2021 -
|Kamala Harris
|American Rescue Plan Act (2021) / Withdrawal from Afghanistan (2022)
|Donald Trump
|Jill (née Jacobs) / previous wife
Neilia Hunter d 1972
|Oldest president in American history
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