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The President and Vice-President are elected every four years. They must be at least 35 years of age, they must be natural-born citizens of the United States, and they must have been residents of the U.S. for at least 14 years. As of 1951, a person cannot be elected to a third term as President.
| President | Party | Term as President | Vice-President |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. George Washington (1732-1799) | None, Federalist | 1789-1797 | John Adams |
| 2. John Adams (1735-1826) | Federalist | 1797-1801 | Thomas Jefferson |
| 3. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) | Democratic-Republican | 1801-1809 | Aaron Burr, George Clinton |
| 4. James Madison (1751-1836) | Democratic-Republican | 1809-1817 | George Clinton, Elbridge Gerry |
| 5. James Monroe (1758-1831) | Democratic-Republican | 1817-1825 | Daniel Tompkins |
| 6. John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) | Democratic-Republican | 1825-1829 | John Calhoun |
| 7. Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) | Democrat | 1829-1837 | John Calhoun, Martin van Buren |
| 8. Martin van Buren (1782-1862) | Democrat | 1837-1841 | Richard Johnson |
| 9. William H. Harrison (1773-1841) | Whig | 1841 | John Tyler |
| 10. John Tyler (1790-1862) | Whig | 1841-1845 | |
| 11. James K. Polk (1795-1849) | Democrat | 1845-1849 | George Dallas |
| 12. Zachary Taylor (1784-1850) | Whig | 1849-1850 | Millard Fillmore |
| 13. Millard Fillmore (1800-1874) | Whig | 1850-1853 | |
| 14. Franklin Pierce (1804-1869) | Democrat | 1853-1857 | William King |
| 15. James Buchanan (1791-1868) | Democrat | 1857-1861 | John Breckinridge |
| 16. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) | Republican | 1861-1865 | Hannibal Hamlin, Andrew Johnson |
| 17. Andrew Johnson (1808-1875) | National Union | 1865-1869 | |
| 18. Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) | Republican | 1869-1877 | Schuyler Colfax |
| 19. Rutherford Hayes (1822-1893) | Republican | 1877-1881 | William Wheeler |
| 20. James Garfield (1831-1881) | Republican | 1881 | Chester Arthur |
| 21. Chester Arthur (1829-1886) | Republican | 1881-1885 | |
| 22. Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) | Democrat | 1885-1889 | Thomas Hendriks |
| 23. Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) | Republican | 1889-1893 | Levi Morton |
| 24. Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) | Democrat | 1893-1897 | Adlai Stevenson |
| 25. William McKinley (1843-1901) | Republican | 1897-1901 | Garret Hobart, Theodore Roosevelt |
| 26. Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) | Republican | 1901-1909 | Charles Fairbanks |
| 27. William Taft (1857-1930) | Republican | 1909-1913 | James Sherman |
| 28. Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) | Democrat | 1913-1921 | Thomas Marshall |
| 29. Warren Harding (1865-1923) | Republican | 1921-1923 | Calvin Coolidge |
| 30. Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) | Republican | 1923-1929 | Charles Dawes |
| 31. Herbert C. Hoover (1874-1964) | Republican | 1929-1933 | Charles Curtis |
| 32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) | Democrat | 1933-1945 | John Garner, Henry Wallace, Harry S. Truman |
| 33. Harry S Truman (1884-1972) | Democrat | 1945-1953 | Alben Barkley |
| 34. Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) | Republican | 1953-1961 | Richard Milhous Nixon |
| 35. John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) | Democrat | 1961-1963 | Lyndon Johnson |
| 36. Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973) | Democrat | 1963-1969 | Hubert Humphrey |
| 37. Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994) | Republican | 1969-1974 | Spiro Agnew, Gerald R. Ford |
| 38. Gerald R. Ford (1913- 2006) | Republican | 1974-1977 | Nelson Rockefeller |
| 39. James (Jimmy) Earl Carter, Jr. (1924-2024) | Democrat | 1977-1981 | Walter Mondale |
| 40. Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911- 2004) | Republican | 1981-1989 | George H. W. Bush |
| 41. George H. W. Bush (1924-2018) | Republican | 1989-1993 | James Danforth (Dan) Quayle |
| 42. William (Bill) Jefferson Clinton (1946- ) | Democrat | 1993-2001 | Al Gore |
| 43. George W. Bush (1946- ) | Republican | 2001-2009 | Richard Cheney |
| 44. Barack Obama (1961- ) | Democrat | 2009-2017 | Joseph Biden |
| 45. Donald Trump (1946- ) | Republican | 2017-2021 | Michael (Mike) Pence |
| 46. Joseph (Joe) Biden (1942- ) | Democrat | 2021-2025 | Kamala Harris |
| 47. Donald Trump (1946- ) | Republican | 2025- | James David (JD) Vance |
President Pages/Activites
Write a paper about a US President, writing about the President’s early life, the presidency, and the post-presidency. Or go to the grading rubric.
Find the names of all the US Presidents in the letter matrix.
Read about the White House, who was the first President to live in it, when it burned down, and other events in its history. Or color a printout on it.
Anyone can write a letter to the President of the USA. Perhaps you have a question, a suggestion, an opinion, a request, a concern, or a criticism for the President. Or you may simply want to send your congratulations or well-wishes the President. Use these hints to help you write a letter to the President.
Read about the Washington Monument or color a printout on it.
Read about Mt. Rushmore and how it was built by Gutzon Borglum. Or go to a printout on Mt. Rushmore.
Simple-to-make crafts to celebrate President’s Day, celebrated in the USA on the third Monday of February.
In this project, each of the Presidents of the US is represented by a leaf on a tree.
Read about the US President’s seal and color it.
The basic process of selecting the President of the United States as directed by the U.S. Constitution.
Write an acrostic poem about the president. Start each line with a letter from the word “PRESIDENT.”
On this printout, the student classifies US states, US presidents, and 3-syllable words by placing them in a Venn diagram. Words: Adams, Alabama, California, Everglades, Florida, Kentucky, Lincoln, Madison, Obama, Seattle, Washington, Wyoming. Or go to the answers.
Use the table to answer the questions about the age and background of recent Presidents of the USA. Or go to the answers. Or go to a pdf of the quiz and the answers (site members only).
Determine if the statements are facts or opinions. A fact is supported by evidence and can be proven; an opinion is how you feel about something and is open to debate. Or go to the answers. Or go to a pdf of the worksheet and answers (subscribers only).