As the head of the government of the United States, the president is arguably the most powerful government official in the world. The president is elected to a four-year term via an electoral college system. Since the Twenty-second Amendment was adopted in 1951, the American presidency has been limited to a maximum of two terms.
Click on a president below to learn more about each presidency through an interactive timeline. The table below the graphic provides a list of presidents of the United States, their birthplaces, political parties, and terms of office.
Presidents of the United States no. president birthplace political party term *Died in office. **Resigned from office.
1 George Washington Virginia Federalist 1789–97 
2 John Adams Massachusetts Federalist 1797–1801 
3 Thomas Jefferson Virginia Democratic-Republican 1801–09 
4 James Madison Virginia Democratic-Republican 1809–17 
5 James Monroe Virginia Democratic-Republican 1817–25 
6 John Quincy Adams Massachusetts National Republican 1825–29 
7 Andrew Jackson South Carolina Democratic 1829–37 
8 Martin Van Buren New York Democratic 1837–41 
9 William Henry Harrison Virginia Whig 1841* 
10 John Tyler Virginia Whig 1841–45 
11 James K. Polk North Carolina Democratic 1845–49 
12 Zachary Taylor Virginia Whig 1849–50* 
13 Millard Fillmore New York Whig 1850–53 
14 Franklin Pierce New Hampshire Democratic 1853–57 
15 James Buchanan Pennsylvania Democratic 1857–61 
16 Abraham Lincoln Kentucky Republican 1861–65* 
17 Andrew Johnson North Carolina Democratic (Union) 1865–69 
18 Ulysses S. Grant Ohio Republican 1869–77 
19 Rutherford B. Hayes Ohio Republican 1877–81 
20 James A. Garfield Ohio Republican 1881* 
21 Chester A. Arthur Vermont Republican 1881–85 
22 Grover Cleveland New Jersey Democratic 1885–89 
23 Benjamin Harrison Ohio Republican 1889–93 24 Grover Cleveland New Jersey Democratic 1893–97 
25 William McKinley Ohio Republican 1897–1901* 
26 Theodore Roosevelt New York Republican 1901–09 
27 William Howard Taft Ohio Republican 1909–13 
28 Woodrow Wilson Virginia Democratic 1913–21 
29 Warren G. Harding Ohio Republican 1921–23* 
30 Calvin Coolidge Vermont Republican 1923–29 
31 Herbert Hoover Iowa Republican 1929–33 
32 Franklin D. Roosevelt New York Democratic 1933–45* 
33 Harry S. Truman Missouri Democratic 1945–53 
34 Dwight D. Eisenhower Texas Republican 1953–61 
35 John F. Kennedy Massachusetts Democratic 1961–63* 
36 Lyndon B. Johnson Texas Democratic 1963–69 
37 Richard M. Nixon California Republican 1969–74** 
38 Gerald R. Ford Nebraska Republican 1974–77 
39 Jimmy Carter Georgia Democratic 1977–81 
40 Ronald Reagan Illinois Republican 1981–89 
41 George Bush Massachusetts Republican 1989–93 
42 Bill Clinton Arkansas Democratic 1993–2001 
43 George W. Bush Connecticut Republican 2001–09 
44 Barack Obama Hawaii Democratic 2009–17 
45 Donald Trump New York Republican 2017–21 
46 Joe Biden Pennsylvania Democratic 2021–2025 47 Donald Trump New York Republican 2025–