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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
Longest-lived president in U.S. history and the first to reach the age of 100
|29 Dec 2024
|-
| 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  - 2025
|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
|
|-
|47
|Donald Trump
|14 Jun 1946
|Queens, New York City
|Republican
|2025 - 
|JD Vance
|
|Kamala Harris
|Melania  (née Knauss) / previous wives: 

Ivana Zelníčková &
Marla Maples
|
|
|}