Civilisation/List of US presidents
From Quiz Revision Notes
| 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 | |
| 1 | George Washington | 22 Feb 1732 | Popes Creek, Virginia | Independent | 1789 - 1793 | John Adams | Bill of Rights (1789) / Supreme Court (1789) / First Bank of the United States (1791) | n.a. | Martha (née Dandridge, previously married to Daniel Custis) | City of Washington founded (1791) / House at Mount Vernon | 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 |
| 3 | Thomas Jefferson | 13 Apr 1743 | Goochland County, Virginia | Democratic-Republican | 1801 -1805 | Aaron Burr | Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves (1807) | John Adams | Martha (née Wayles) | Possibly had 6 children with slave Sally Hemings / House at Monticello | 4 July 1826 |
| Thomas Jefferson | 1805 -1809 | George Clinton | Charles C. Pinckney | ||||||||
| 4 | James Madison | 16 Mar 1751 | Port Conway, Virginia | Democratic-Republican | 1809 - 1813 | George Clinton (1809/12) | War of 1812 (1812-15) - White House and Capitol burned (1814) | Charles C. Pinckney | Dolley (née Todd) | House at Montpelier | 28 Jun 1836 |
| James Madison | 1813 - 1817 | Elbridge Gerry (1813/14) | DeWitt Clinton | ||||||||
| 5 | James Monroe | 28 Apr 1758 | Westmoreland County, Virginia | Democratic-Republican | 1817 -1821 | Daniel D. Tompkins | 1st Seminole War (1817/18) / Missouri Compromise (1820) prohibiting slavery north of the 36°30′ parallel | Rufus King | Elizabeth (née Kortright) | Monroe Doctrine opposing European colonialism in the Americas (1823) | 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 | |
| 7 | Andrew Jackson | 15 Mar 1767 | Waxhaw, South Carolina | Democrat | 1829 - 1833 | John C. Calhoun (1829–32) | Petticoat Affair scandal (1829) / Nat Turner's slave revolt (1831) / Black Hawk War (1832) / Whig Party formed (1834) | John Quincy Adams | Rachel (née Donelson) | Assassination attempt by Richard Lawrence at Capitol on 30 Jan 1835 | 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 | |
| 16 | Abraham Lincoln | 12 Feb 1809 | Hardin County, Kentucky | Republican | 1861-1865 | Hannibal Hamlin | American Civil War (1861-1865) / 13th Amendment abolishes slavery (1865) | John C. Breckinridge | Mary (née Todd) | Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre, Washington DC | 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 | |
| 18 | Ulysses S. Grant | 27 Apr 1822 | Point Pleasant, Ohio | Republican | 1869 - 1873 | Schuyler Colfax | Amnesty Act (1872) / Yellowstone (1st National Park) (1872) / 'Panic of 1873' / Civil Rights Act (1875) / Battle of the Little Big Horn (1876) | Horatio Seymour | Julia (née Dent) | Birth name: Hiram Ulysses Grant | 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 |
| 25 | William McKinley | 29 Jan 1843 | Niles, Ohio | Republican | 1897 - 1901 | Garret Hobart (1897–1899) | Spanish-American War (1898) | William Jennings Bryan | Ida (née Saxton) | Assassinated by Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo | 14 Sep 1901 |
| William McKinley | 1901 | Theodore Roosevelt (1901) | William Jennings Bryan | ||||||||
| 26 | Theodore Roosevelt | 27 Oct 1858 | New York City | Republican | 1901 - 1905 | n.a. | Bureau of Investigation (BOI) founded (1908) - becomes FBI in 1935 | n.a. | Alice (née Lee) d. 1884
Edith (née Carow) |
Youngest person to become President (not youngest to be elected) / Nobel Peace Prize (1906) for role in ending Russo-Japanese War | 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 |
| 28 | Woodrow Wilson | 28 Dec 1856 | Staunton, Virginia | Democrat | 1913 - 1917 | Thomas R. Marshall | First World War / 18th Amendment introduces prohibition (1919) / 19th Amendment gives women the vote (1920) | Theodore Roosevelt | Ellen (née Axson) d. 1914)
Edith (née Bolling) m. 1915 |
Nobel Peace Prize (1919) for proposing League of Nations which US then refused to join | 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 |
| 30 | Calvin Coolidge | 4 Jul 1872 | Plymouth, Vermont | Republican | 1923 - 1925 | n.a. | Immigration Act (1924) stopped immigration from Asia and set quotas on immigration from the Eastern Hemisphere | n.a. | Grace (née Goodhue) | 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 | |
| 32 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 30 Jan 1882 | Hyde Park, New York | Democrat | 1933 - 1937 | John Nance Garner | '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 | Eleanor (née Roosevelt) | Assassination attempt by Giuseppe Zangara in Miami (1933 - before first inauguration) / Died in office | 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 | ||||||||
| 33 | Harry S. Truman | 8 May 1884 | Lamar, Missouri | Democrat | 1945 - 1949 | n.a. | 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. | Bess (née Wallace) | Assassination attempt by Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo at Blair House on 1 Nov 1950 whilst White House being renovated | 26 Dec 1972 |
| Harry S. Truman | 1949 - 1953 | Alben W. Barkley | Thomas E. Dewey / Strom Thurmond | ||||||||
| 34 | Dwight David Eisenhower | 14 Oct 1890 | Denison, Texas | Republican | 1953 - 1957 | Richard Nixon | Interstate Highway System (1956) | Adlai Stevenson II | Mamie (née Doud) | 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 |
| 36 | Lyndon Baines Johnson | 27 Aug 1908 | Stonewall, Texas | Democrat | 1963 - 1965 | n.a. | Civil Rights Acts (1964 & 1968) / Voting Rights Act (1965) / Medicare & Medicaid (1965) / Vietnam War (1965-1975) | n.a. | Claudia 'Lady Bird' (née Taylor) | 22 Jan 1973 | |
| Lyndon Baines Johnson | 1965 - 1969 | Hubert Humphrey | Barry Goldwater | ||||||||
| 37 | Richard Milhous Nixon | 9 Jan 1913 | Yorba Linda, California | Republican | 1969 - 1973 | Spiro Agnew (1969–Oct 1973) | 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 | Patricia (née Ryan) | Resigned from office 8 Aug 1974 (1st President to do so) | 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 | |
| 40 | Ronald Reagan | 6 Feb 1911 | Tampico, Illinois | Republican | 1981 - 1985 | George H. W. Bush | Iran-Contra affair (1986) / Space Shuttle 'Challenger' disaster (1986) / Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF 1988) | Jimmy Carter / John B. Anderson | Nancy (née Davis). He was previously married to actress Jane Wyman | Assasination attempt by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, D.C. (1981) | 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 | |
| 42 | Bill Clinton | 19 Aug 1946 | Hope, Arkansas | Democrat | 1993 - 1997 | Al Gore | North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA 1993) / Monica Lewinsky scandal (1996) | George H. W. Bush / Ross Perot | Hillary (née Rodham) | ||
| Bill Clinton | 1997 -2001 | Bob Dole / Ross Perot | |||||||||
| 43 | George Walker Bush | 6 Jul 1946 | New Haven, Connecticut | Republican | 2001 - 2005 | Dick Cheney | 9/11 terrorist attacks (2001) / Patriot Act (2001) / Invasion of Afghanistan (2001) / Invasion of Iraq (2003) / Financial Crisis (2007-2008) | Al Gore | Laura (née Welch) | Son of George H. W. Bush | |
| George Walker Bush | 2005 - 2009 | John Kerry | |||||||||
| 44 | Barack Obama | 4 Aug 1961 | Honolulu, Hawaii | Democrat | 2009 - 2013 | Joe Biden | Affordable Care Act (ACA) (aka Obamacare) (2010) / Killing of Osama Bin Laden (2011) / same-sex marriage legalized nationwide (2015) | John McCain | Michelle (née Robinson) | 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate | |
| 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 |
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| 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 | |
