POTUS

2025-02-08

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and government of the United States.

Presidents direct the executive branch of the federal government and act as the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.

No. President Vice President Term Party
1 George Washington John Adams 1789 - 1797 Unaffiliated
2 John Adams Thomas Jefferson 1797 - 1801 Federalist
3 Thomas Jefferson Aaron Burr, George Clinton 1801 - 1809 Democratic-Republican
4 James Madison George Clinton, Elbridge Gerry 1809 - 1817 Democratic-Republican
5 James Monroe Daniel D. Tompkins 1817 - 1825 Democratic-Republican
6 John Quincy Adams John C. Calhoun 1825 - 1829 National Republican
7 Andrew Jackson John C. Calhoun, Martin Van Buren 1829 - 1837 Democratic
8 Martin Van Buren Richard Mentor Johnson 1837 - 1841 Democratic
9 William Henry Harrison John Tyler 1841 - 1841 Whig
10 John Tyler vacant 1841 - 1845 Whig, Unaffiliated
11 James K. Polk George M. Dallas 1845 - 1849 Democratic
12 Zachary Taylor Millard Fillmore 1849 - 1850 Whig
13 Millard Filmore vacant 1850 - 1853 Whig
14 Franklin Pierce William R. King 1853 - 1857 Democratic
15 James Buchanan John C. Breckinridge 1857 - 1861 Democratic
16 Abraham Lincoln Hannibal Hamlin, Andrew Johnson 1861 - 1865 Republican, National Union
17 Andrew Johnson vacant 1865 - 1869 National Union
18 Ulysses S. Grant Schuyler Colfax, Henry Wilson 1869 - 1877 Democratic
19 Rutherford B. Hayes William A. Wheeler 1877 - 1881 Republican
20 James A. Garfield Chester A. Arthur 1881 - 1881 Republican
21 Chester A. Arthur vacant 1881 - 1885 Republican
22 Grover Cleveland Thomas A. Hendricks 1885 - 1889 Republican
23 Benjamin Harrison Levi P. Morton 1889 - 1893 Democratic
24 Grover Cleveland (2nd.) Adlai Stevenson I 1893 - 1897 Republican
25 William McKinley Garret Hobart, Theodore Roosevelt 1897 - 1901 Republican
26 Theodore Roosevelt Charles W. Fairbanks 1901 - 1909 Republican
27 William Howard Taft James S. Sherman 1909 - 1913 Democratic
28 Woodrow Wilson Thomas R. Marshall 1913 - 1921 Republican
29 Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge 1921 - 1923 Republican
30 Calvin Coolidge Charles G. Dawes 1923 - 1929 Republican
31 Herbert Hoover Charles Curtis 1929 - 1933 Republican
32 Franklin D. Roosevelt John Nance Garner, Henry A. Wallace, Harry S. Truman 1933 - 1945 Democratic
33 Harry S. Truman Alben W. Barkley 1945 - 1953 Democratic
34 Dwight D. Eisenhower Richard Nixon 1953 - 1961 Republican
35 John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson 1961 - 1963 Democratic
36 Lyndon B. Johnson Hubert Humphrey 1963 - 1969 Democratic
37 Richard Nixon Spiro Agnew, Gerald Ford 1969 - 1974 Republican
38 Gerald Ford Nelson Rockefeller 1974 - 1977 Republican
39 Jimmy Carter Walter Mondale 1977 - 1981 Democratic
40 Ronald Reagan George H. W. Bush 1981 - 1989 Republican
41 George H. W. Bush Dan Quayle 1989 - 1993 Republican
42 Bill Clinton Al Gore 1993 - 2001 Democratic
43 George W. Bush Dick Cheney 2001 - 2009 Republican
44 Barack Obama Joe Biden 2009 - 2017 Democratic
45 Donald Trump Mike Pence 2017 - 2021 Republican
46 Joe Biden Kamala Harris 2021 - 2025 Democratic
47 Donald Trump (2nd.) JD Vance 2025 - Republican