62

List of US Presidents

According to the constitution of the United States of America, the President in the US is “Head of the government” as well as “Head of the state”. The President of the United States is elected for a working tenure of four years through an Electoral College system. The working period has been restricted to a limit of two terms after the adaptation of the Twenty-second amendment in 1951.

Some facts regarding President of US

• The US president’s office was initiated in 1789, and since then, 45 personalities have served to the designation of the United States President.
• George Washington was the person who was honoured as the first president of the United States.
• Grover Cleveland is the only President who held the designation for two non-sequential terms in the office.
• William Henry Harrison was the shortest working President due to his demise just after 31 days of taking the responsibility.
• Franklin D. Roosevelt became the longest-working President of the United States who served for more than two terms. He held the position for more than 12 years and died during the starting years of his fourth term.
• The last presidential election that was conducted in 2020 was the 59th presidential election in which Joseph Robinette Biden won the elections. Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is currently serving as the President of the United States.

Eligibility criteria to become the US president

The person who wants to serve as the President of the United States should meet the following three important attributes:

1. The individual should be a natural-born native of the United States.
2. The person should be a resident of the US for 14 years at least.
3. The individual must have attained the age of 35 years.

List of presidents of United States

Now, in this section, we will see the list of all the presidents in the history of the United States and from which party they belonged. We will also look at the brief description of each US president and see their list in chronological order to understand it better.

S. No. of President	Name of President	The party which they belong to	Brief description about the President
1st	George Washington	Independent Candidate	He was the first president of the US and served from 1789 to 1797. In addition to this, he was an American political head, military general, national leader, and the founding father of the United States.
2nd	John Adams	Federalist Party	John Adams was elected as the 2nd president of the United States (1797-1801) and also worked as the first vice president of the United States under the presidency of George Washington. He was a great political philosopher.
3rd	Thomas Jefferson	Democratic-Republican Party	He served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809 and was an American national leader, an advocate, a musician, an architect, and a great philosopher.
4th	James Madison	Democratic-Republican Party	James Madison, the fourth president of the United State served as president from 1809 to 1817. He was also a remarkable philosopher, statesman, and imperialist.
5th	James Monroe	Democratic-Republican Party	He worked as the President of the US from 1817 to 1825, who was an advocate and a statesman.
6th	John Quincy Adams	Whig Party	He held the post of sixth US president from 1825 to 1829 and was an American States person and an advocate.
7th	Andrew Jackson	Democratic Party	He worked as the seventh president of the US from 1829 to 1837 and was an American advocate and a military person.
8th	Martin Van Buren	Democratic Party	He served as the eighth American President from 1837 to 1841. He was also the founder of the Democratic party and served for the post of Governor of New York.
9th	William Henry Harrison	Whig Party	He worked as the ninth American President in 1841. Unfortunately, he only served for 31 days and died.
10th	John Tyler	Whig Party	He served as the tenth President of the US from 1841 to 1845 before he works as the tenth vice president under the presidency of William Henry Jackson.
11th	James K. Polk	Democratic Party	Polk was appointed as the 11th president of the US and served as the president from 1845 to 1849. Prior to the President, he was the speaker of representatives and was also the governor of Tennessee.
12th	Zachary Taylor	Whig Party	Zachary Taylor was appointed as the 12th president of the United States and served from 1849 till his demise in 1850. Before, he was an officeholder in the US force and reached the grade of major general. He emerged as a national hero after his victory in Mexican American War.
13th	Millard Fillmore	Know Nothing	He served as the 13th president of the US from 1850 to 1853 and was a member of the know nothing party. He was the last US president who was not from either Democratic or Republican party.
14th	Franklin Pierce	New Hampshire Democratic Party	He served as the 14th American President from 1853 to 1857 and framed the policies which contributed to driving the US into Civil War.
15th	James Buchanan	Democratic Party	James Buchanan was appointed as the 15th president of the United States from 1857 to 1861 before he earned as the secretary of state from 1845 to 1849.
16th	Abraham Lincoln	National Union Party	Abraham Lincoln was an American advocate and politician who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 till his murder in 1865. He headed the country during the American Civil War and the nation’s biggest civilization, constitutional, and government dilemma.
17th	Andrew Johnson	Democratic Party	The 17th president of US, Andrew Johnson, was the vice president of US when Abraham Lincoln was holding the presidential office. He was then appointed as the 17th president of the United States from 1865 to 1869 just after the assassination of former president Abraham Lincoln.
18th	Ulysses S. Grant	Republican party	He was an American army head who was appointed as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As the Supreme office holder, he created the Justice Department and worked along with the Radical Republicans to defend African Americans in the time of reformation.
19th	Rutherford B. Hayes	Republican party	Rutherford Birchard Hayes was a counsellor and an American legislator who worked as the President of the United States from 1877 to 1881.
20th	James A. Garfield	Republican party	James A. Garfield, who was born on 19 November 1931 in Ohio, was the last President of the US who was born in a log cabin. Garfield has the second shortest tenure (March 1881 to September 1881) in the history of all the US presidents.
21st	Chester A. Arthur	Republican party	The 21st president of the United States, Chester A. Arthur, was a politician and American attorney and served from 1881 to 1885 as the US president. He was also the 20th Vice president of the US who succeeded as the President after the death of the 20th president, i.e., James A. Garfield.
22nd	Grover Cleveland	Democratic Party	The full name of Grover Cleveland was Stephen Grover Cleveland, and he was a politician and American attorney who was the American President two times in history, i.e., Grover was the 22nd (1885-1889) as well as 24th (1893-1897) president of US.
23rd	Benjamin Harrison	Republican party	Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd President (1889-1893) of the US, was the great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison V (The person who signed the Declaration of Independence of the United States), and he was also the grandson of William Henry Harrison, the 9th president of US.
24th	Grover Cleveland	Democratic Party	Grover Cleveland (1893-1897)
25th	William McKinley	Republican party	The 25th president of the US, William McKinley, served from 1897-1901 until he was assassinated in 1901 during his presidential tenure.
26th	Theodore Roosevelt	Republican party	Theodore Roosevelt Jr., who was the 26th US president from 1901-1909, was famously known with his initials TR and also referred to as Teddy. T.R. was a conservationist, historian, writer, naturalist, and American statesman.
27th	William Howard Taft	Republican party	The 27th president (1909-1913) of the US, William Howard Taft, was also the 10th chief justice of the US, and he was the only person in history to have held both offices.
28th	Woodrow Wilson	Democratic Party	Thomas Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president (1913-1921) of the US, was an American academic and politician, and he also served as the governor of New Jersey as well as the President of Princeton University.
29th	Warren G. Harding	Republican party	The 29th president of the US, Warren G. Harding, was stated serving as the US president in 1921 and died during his tenure in 1923, and he became the most popular President during his tenure.
30th	Calvin Coolidge	Republican party	Calvin Coolidge, born in England was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 30th US president starting from 1923 till 1929. He was also the governor of Massachusetts before becoming President.
31st	Herbert Hoover	Republican party	The 31st president of the US, Herbert Hoover, was an American businessman, politician, and engineer, held the office from 1929 to 1933, and he was also the one who held the presidential office during the onset of the Great Depression in American history.
32nd	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Democratic Party	Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the US, was often referred to by his initials, i.e., FDR, who served as the President of the US from 1933 until he demised in 1945.
33rd	Harry S. Truman	Democratic Party	The 33rd president of the US, Harry S. Truman, was previously serving as the 32nd Vice president of the US. Truman succeeded as the 33rd president after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt (the 32nd president) and served from 1945 to 1953.
34th	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Republican party	Before becoming the 34th president of the US, Dwight D. Eisenhower was an American statesman as well as a military officer who held the presidential office from 1953 till 1961.
35th	John F. Kennedy	Democratic Party	The 35th president of the US, John F. Kennedy, who often referred with his initials, i.e., JFK, was an American politician who held the presidential office from 1961 till he was assassinated in 1963.
36th	Lyndon B. Johnson	Democratic Party	The 36th president of the US, Lyndon B. Johnson, who often referred with his initials, i.e., LBJ, was previously serving as 37the Vice president of the US and succeeded as President after the assassination of John F. Kennedy (35th US president) in 1963 and he held the office from 1963 to 1969.
37th	Richard Nixon	Republican party	Richard Nixon, the 37th US president (1969-1974), was the 36th Vice president of the US previously, and before becoming 37th president, he was a senator and representative from California.
38th	Gerald Ford	Republican party	Gerald Ford, the leader in the House of Representatives for the Republican party and 40th Vice president of the US (1973-1974), was the 38th president of the US, and he held the office from 1974 to 1977.
39th	Jimmy Carter	Democratic Party	James Earl Carter Jr., famously known as Jimmy Carter, was a former politician and American philanthropist who became the 39th US president and held office from 1977 to 1981. Before becoming 39th president of the US, James Carter also served as the State senator of Georgia.
40th	Ronald Reagan	Republican party	The 40th president of the United States, Ronald Wilson Reagan, was an American politician who became a highly influential voice of modern conservatism during his presidential tenure, i.e., from 1981 to 1989.
41st	George H.W. Bush	Republican party	The 41st President of the United States, George Herbert Walter Bush, also known as George H.W. Bush, was an American diplomat, a businessman as well as a politician who held the presidential office from 1989 to 1993.
42nd	Bill Clinton	Democratic Party	William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd US president, famously known as Bill Clinton, was served as the attorney general (1977-79) and governor (1979-81 & 1983-92) of Arkansas before he became the President of the United States (from 1993 to 2001).
43rd	George W. Bush	Republican party	George Walker Bush, also called George Bush, was the 43rd president of the US from 2001 to 2009, and before his presidential career, he served as the 46th governor of Texas (from 1995 to 2000).
44th	Barack H. Obama	Democratic party	Barack Hussein Obama Jr., famously called Barack Obama only, was the 44th president of the United States, and he was the only American-African person who held the presidential position of United States. Obama was an American attorney and politician who held the presidential office from 2009 to 2017.
45th	Donald J. Trump	Republican party	Donald John Trump, or Donald Trump, who served as the 45th president of the US, is an American businessman and media personality who held the presidential office from 2017 until the last presidential elections in 2020.
46th	Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.	Democratic Party	The current President of the United States, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. or Joe Biden, was served as the 47th Vice president of the US under the tenure of Barack Obama (44th US president), and also, he is the 46th US president who became President in 2020 and currently holding the presidential office.

---