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Presidents
Civics
| Number of President | Name | Term Served | Fact | Political Party | Vice President |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st President | George Washington | 1789-1797 | Commander in Chief of the Continental Army | No Party | VP- John Adams |
| 2nd President | John Adams | 1779-1801 | First Vice President | Federalist | VP- Thomas Jefferson |
| 3rd President | Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Authorized the Louisiana Purchase and Lewis & Clark Expedition | Democratic-Republican | VP- Aaron Burr; George Clinton |
| 4th President | James Madison | 1809-1817 | President during the War of 1812 | Democratic-Republican | VP- George Clinton; Elbridge Gerry |
| 5th President | James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Implemented the Monroe Doctrine; closing America to further colonization | Democratic-Republican | VP- Daniel D. Thompkins |
| 6th President | John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | Served as co-counsel on the Amistad case, arguing that African rebels had a right to freedom | Democratic-Republican | VP-John C. Calhoun |
| 7th President | Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Signed Indian Removal Act (forced the migration of Native Americans) | Democratic | VP- John C. Calhoun; Martin Van Buren |
| 8th President | Martin Van Buren | 1837-1841 | Only president to have learned English as a second language. Grew up speaking Dutch | Democratic | VP- Richard M. Johnson |
| 9th President | William Henry Harrison | 1841 (March 4 - April 4) | Died of pneumonia | Whig | VP- John Tyler |
| 10th President | John Tyler | 1841-1845 | First president married while in office- had 15 children! | Whig | VP- None |
| 11 President | Jams Polk | 1845-1849 | Extended nation's boundaries to Pacific Ocean after the Mexican War | Democratic | VP- George Dallas |
| 12th President | Zachary Taylor | 1849-1850 (16 months) | Hero of Mexican War; died in office of unknown causes after a 4th of July Celebration | Whig | VP- Millard Fillmore |
| 13th President | Millard Fillmore | 1850-1853 | Compromise of 1850 delayed war between the states for 10 years | Whig | VP- None |
| 14th President | Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | Rose to General in Mexican War | Democratic | VP- William Rufus DeVane King (d. 1853) |
| 15th President | James Buchanan | 1857-1861 | Near end of term, 7 states seceded, forming the Confederate States of America | Democratic | VP- JOhn C. Breckinridge |
| 16th President | Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | Six weeks into 1st term, attack on Fort Sumter begins the Civil War; Issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves | Republican | VP- Hannibal Hamlin; Andrew Johnson |
| 17th President | Andrew Johnson | 1865-1869 | First president to be impeached by the house- Senate acquitted | Democratic | VP- None |
| 18th President | Ulysses S. Grant | 1869-1877 | Held no other political offices | Republican | VP- Schuyler Colfax; Henry Wilson |
| 19th President | Rutherford B. Hayes | 1877-1881 | Ended Reconstruction in the South | Republican | VP- William Wheeler |
| 20th President | James Garfield | 1881 (6.5 months) | 2nd president to be assassinated | Republican | VP- Chester Arthur |
| 21st President | Chester Arthur | 1881-1885 | Signed the Pendleton Act, reforming the civil service system | Republican | VP- None |
| 22nd President | Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889 | Only president to serve two non-consecutive terms in office | Democratic | VP- Thomas Hendricks (d. 1885) |
| 23rd President | Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | Rose to General during Civil War; inaugurated 100 years after 1st president | Republican | VP- Levi Morton |
| 24th President | Grover Cleveland | 1893-1897 | Panic of 1893 sent nation in to depression; served 2 non-consecutive terms | Democratic | VP_ Adlai Stevenson |
| 25th President | William McKinley, JR | 1897-1901 | Assassinated 6 months into 2nd term | Republican | VP_ Garret Hobart; Theodore Roosevelt |
| 26th President | Theodore Roosevelt | 1904-1909 | Doubled the number of National Parks; 1906 Nobel Peace Prize | Republican | VP- Charles Fairbanks |
| 27th President | William Howard Taft | 1909-1913 | Served as Secretary of War under Theodore Roosevelt; Established the federal income tax | Republican | VP-James S. Sherman |
| 28th President | Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | Only president to earn a PhD; 19th Amendment; President during WWI; 1919 Nobel Peace Prize | Democratic | VP- Thomas Marshall |
| 29th President | Warren Harding | 1921-1923 | First president to speak on the radio; died in CA traveling back from 1st ever presidential visit to Alaska | Republican | VP- Calvin Coolidge |
| 30th President | Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | Sworn in as President by a justice of the peace in Vermont- his father | Republican | VP- Charles Dawes |
| 31st President | Herbert Hoover | 1929-1933 | Self-made multi-millionaire by age 40; Stock market crash of 1929 brought on the Great Depression | Republican | VP- Charles Curtis |
| 32nd President | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 1933-1945 | Paralyzed by polio at age 39; President during Great Depression and WWII; Longest serving president (4 terms); Created Social Security System | Democratic | VP- John N. Garner; Henry A. Wallace; Harry S. Truman |
| 33rd President | Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Assumed presidency upon the death of Roosevelt; Ordered the use of the atomic bomb to end WWII | Democratic | VP- None; Alben Barkley |
| 34th President | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in WWII; Commander of NATO forces in Europe; 1 president to campaign on TV; 1st president for all 50 states | Republican | VP- Richard M. Nixon |
| 35th President | John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | 1st catholic and youngest elected president; established Peace Corps; assassinated in Dallas, TX | Democratic | VP- Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| 36th President | Lyndon Baines Johnson | 1963-1969 | Oversaw escalation of Vietnam War; Signed the Civil Rights Act into law | Democratic | VP- None; Hubert Humphrey |
| 37th President | Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Pulled US troops out of Vietnam; improved relations with China & USSR; Faced impeachment after Watergate scandal; 1st president to resign | Republican | VP- Spiro Agnew; Gerald Ford |
| 38th President | Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Turned down National Football League contract; only president never elected- as President of VP | Republican | VP- Nelson Rockefeller |
| 39th President | James Carter, JR | 1977-1981 | Negotiated Camp David peace accord between Egypt & Israel; 2002 Nobel Peace prize | Democratic | VP- Walter Mondale |
| 40th President | Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Actor in 53 films; wounded in assassination attempt 69 days into presidency; appointed 1st woman to Supreme Court | Republican | VP- George Bush |
| 41st President | George Bush | 1989-1993 | US Ambassador to United Nations; Director of CIA; President during collapse of Soviet Union & 1st Gulf War | Republican | VP- Dan Quayle |
| 42nd President | William Clinton | 1993-2001 | Impeached by congress; acquitted by Senate; appointed 1st woman Secretary of State | Democratic | VP- Al Gore |
| 43rd President | George W. Bush | 2001-2009 | Son of 41st president; president during 9/11 terror attacks; implemented Patriot Act | Republican | VP- Richard Cheney |
| 44th President | Barack Obama II | 2009-2017 | 1st African American president; divided the country more than any other time since the Civil War; 2009 Nobel Peace Prize | Democratic | VP- Joseph Biden |
| 45th President | Donald Trump | 2017- Present | 324th wealthiest man in the world | Republican | VP- Mike Pence |
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