The Presidents: United States Presidential Fact Book
The Presidents of the United States of America 1 George Washington 1789-1797 2 John Adams 1797-1801 3 Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809 4 James Madison 1809-1817 5 James Monroe 1817-1825 6 John Quincy Adams 1825-1829 7 Andrew Jackson 1829–1837 8 Martin Van Buren 1837-1841 9 William H. Harrison 1841 10 John Tyler 1841-1845 11 James K. Polk 1845-1849 12 Zachary Taylor 1849-1850 13 Millard Fillmore 1850-1853 14 Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 15 James Buchanan 1857-1861 16 Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 17 Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 18 Ulysses S. Grant 1869–1877 19 Rutherford B. Hayes 1877-1881 20 James A. Garfield 1881 21 Chester A. Arthur 1881-1885 22 Grover Cleveland 1885-1889 23 Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893 24 Grover Cleveland 1893-1897 25 William McKinley 1897–1901 26 Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909 27 William H. Taft 1909-1913 28 Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921 29 Warren G. Harding 1921-1923 30 Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929 31 Herbert Hoover 1929-1933 32 Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945 33 Harry S. Truman 1945–1953 34 Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953-1961 35 John F. Kennedy 1961–1963 36 Lyndon B. Johnson 1963-1969 37 Richard M. Nixon 1969-1974 38 Gerald R. Ford 1974-1977 39 James E. Carter 1977–1981 40 Ronald W. Reagan 1981-1989 41 George H. W. Bush 1989-1993 42 William J. Clinton 1993-2001 43 George W. Bush 2001-2009 44 Barack Obama 2009-2017 45 Donald Trump 2017
1 George Washington 1789–1797 Federalist Vice President John Adams Born February 22 1732 Westmoreland County VA Occupation Surveyor Farmer Soldier Married Martha Dandridge Custis Died December 14 1799 Mount Vernon VA Early Years Washington had no formal schooling At 17 he became a surveyor for Culpeper County Virginia At 20 he was managing the family plantations and in 1775 became commander of the Continental Army His Presidency Washington had presided over the Constitutional Convention and was so well liked that he received every electoral vote and became the first president under the new Constitution The people's faith in him kept the country together In 1792 he was reelected Under his administration a national bank was approved peace was made with the Native Americans and the federal government was proved capable of enforcing its laws Did you know Washington wore size 13 shoes and had only one tooth at the time of his inauguration
2 John Adams 1797–1801 Federalist Vice President Thomas Jefferson Born October 30 1735 Braintree Quincy MA Occupation Lawyer Writer Married Abigail Smith Died July 4 1826 Braintree MA Early Years Adams grew up on a farm and was very athletic He especially liked hunting playing games flying kites and shooting marbles At 16 he went to Harvard and after graduation he taught school and studied law His Presidency Adams was the first president to occupy the White House although it was unfinished His decision to maintain peace with France when the U.S. was not strong enough to fight and his signing of the Alien and Sedition Acts to stop foreign and American opposition to the government made him so unpopular that he was defeated in the next election In spite of all this Adams was a courageous patriot Did you know John Adams great great grandparents were John and Priscilla Alden two of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620
