AMERICAN PRESIDENTS SINCE 1789
- The head of state;
- Head of government of the United States;
- The leaderof the executive branch of the federal government; and
- He is the commander-in-chief of the US Armed Forces.
George Washington 30 April 1789 – 4 March 1797
John Adams 4 March 1797 – 4 March 1801
Thomas Jefferson 4 March 1801 – 4 March 1809
James Madison 4 March 1809 – 4 March 1817
James Monroe 4 March 1817 – 4 March 1825
John Quincy Adams 4 March 1825 – 4 March 1829
Andrew Jackson 4 March 1829 – 4 March 1837
Martin Van Buren 4 March 1837 – 4 March 1841
William Henry Harrison 4 March 1841 – 4 April 1841
John Tyler 4 April 4 1841 – 4 March 1845
James Knox Polk 4 March 1845 – 4 March 1849
Zachary Taylor 4 March 1849 – 9 July 1850
Millard Fillmore 9 July 1850 – 4 March 1853
Franklin Pierce 4 March 1853 – 4 March 1857
James Buchanan 4 March 1857 – 4 March 1861
Abraham Lincoln 4 March 1861 – 15 April 1865
Andrew Johnson 15 April 1865 – 4 March 1869
Ulysses Simpson Grant 4 March 1869 – 4 March 1877
Rutherford Birchard Hayes 4 March 1877 – 4 March 1881
James Abram Garfield 4 March 1881 – 19 September 1881
Chester Alan Arthur 19 September 1881 – 4 March 1885
Grover Cleveland 4 March 1885 – 4 March 1889
Benjamin Harrison 4 March 1889 – 4 March 1893
Grover Cleveland 4 March 1893 – 4 March 1897
William McKinley 4 March 1897 – 14 September 1901
Theodore Roosevelt 14 September 1901 – 4 March 1909
William Howard Taft 4 March 1909 – 4 March 1913
Woodrow Wilson 4 March 1913 – 4 March 1921
Warren Gamaliel Harding 4 March 1921 – 2 August 1923
Calvin Coolidge 2 August 1923 – 4 March 1929
Herbert Clark Hoover 4 March 1929 – 4 March 1933
Franklin DelanoRoosevelt 4 March 1933 – 12 April 1945
Harry S. Truman 12 April 1945 – 20 January 1953
Dwight David Eisenhower 20 January 1953 – 20 January 1961
John Fitzgerald Kennedy 20 January 1961 – 22 November 1963
Lyndon Baines Johnson November 22, 1963 – January 20, 1969
Richard Milhous Nixon 20 January 1969 – 9 August 1974
Gerald Rudolph Ford 9 August 1974 – 20 January 1977
James (Jimmy) Earl Carter, Jr 20 January 1977 – 20 January 1981
Ronald Wilson Reagan 20 January 1981 – 20 January 1989
George Herbert Walker Bush 20 January 1989 – 20 January 1993
William Jefferson Clinton 20 January 1993 – 20 January 2001
George Walker Bush 20 January 2001 –
Elected as President on 5 Nov. 2008: Barack Obama