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C | Presidents of the United States of America

U.S. HistoryC | Presidents of the United States of America

Order Elected or Began Serving President
1 1788–1789; 1792 George Washington
2 1796 John Adams
3 1800 Thomas Jefferson
4 1808 James Madison
5 1816 James Monroe
6 1824 John Quincy Adams
7 1828 Andrew Jackson
8 1836 Martin Van Buren
9 1840 William Henry Harrison
10 1841 John Tyler
11 1844 James K. Polk
12 1848 Zachary Taylor
13 1850 Millard Fillmore
14 1852 Franklin Pierce
15 1856 James Buchanan
16 1860 Abraham Lincoln
17 1865 Andrew Johnson
18 1868 Ulysses S. Grant
19 1876 Rutherford B. Hayes
20 1880 James A. Garfield
21 1881 Chester A. Arthur
22 1884 Grover Cleveland
23 1888 Benjamin Harrison
24 1892 Grover Cleveland
25 1896 William McKinley
26 1901 Theodore Roosevelt
27 1908 William Howard Taft
28 1912 Woodrow Wilson
29 1920 Warren G. Harding
30 1924 Calvin Coolidge
31 1928 Herbert Hoover
32 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt
33 1945 Harry S. Truman
34 1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower
35 1960 John F. Kennedy
36 1963 Lyndon B. Johnson
37 1968 Richard Nixon
38 1974 Gerald R. Ford
39 1976 Jimmy Carter
40 1980 Ronald Reagan
41 1988 George H. W. Bush
42 1992 Bill Clinton
43 2000 George W. Bush
44 2008 Barack Obama
45 2016 Donald J. Trump
46 2020 Joe Biden
Table C1 Presidents of the United States of America
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