All U.S. Presidents Timeline
President
Term
Political Party
1. George Washington
2. John Adams
3. Thomas Jefferson
4. James Madison
5. James Monroe
6. John Quincy Adams
7. Andrew Jackson
8. Martin Van Buren
9. William Henry Harrison
10. John Tyler
11. James K. Polk
12. Zachary Taylor
13. Millard Fillmore
14. Franklin Pierce
15. James Buchanan
16. Abraham Lincoln
17. Andrew Johnson
18. Ulysses S. Grant
19. Rutherford B. Hayes
20. James Garfield
21. Chester Arthur
22. Grover Cleveland
23. Benjamin Harrison
24. Grover Cleveland
25. William McKinley
26. Theodore Roosevelt
27. William Taft
28. Woodrow Wilson
29. Warren Harding
30. Calvin Coolidge
31. Herbert Hoover
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt
33. Harry S. Truman
34. Dwight Eisenhower
35. John F. Kennedy
36. Lyndon B. Johnson
37. Richard Nixon
38. Gerald Ford
39. Jimmy Carter Jr.
40. Ronald Reagan
41. George H.W. Bush
1789 -1797
1797-1801
1801-1809
1809-1817
1817-1825
1825-1829
1829-1837
1837-1841
1841
1841-1845
1845-1849
1849-1850
1850-1853
1853-1857
1857-1861
1861-1865
1865-1869
1869-1877
1877-1881
1881
1881-1885
1885-1889
1889-1893
1893-1897
1897-1901
1901-1909
1909-1913
1913-1921
1921-1923
1923-1929
1929-1933
1933-1945
1945-1953
1953-1961
1961-1963
1963-1969
1969-1974
1974-1977
1977-1981
1981-1989
1989-1993
No Party Affiliation
Federalist
Democratic Republican
Democratic Republican
Democratic Republican (but it was Era of Good Feelings)
Democratic Republican (but so were all the other candidates)
Democrat
Democrat
Whig
Whig
Democrat
Whig
Whig
Democrat
Democrat
Republican
Republican
Republican
Republican
Republican
Republican
Democrat
Republican
Democrat
Republican
Republican
Republican
Democrat
Republican
Republican
Republican
Democrat
Democrat
Republican
Democrat
Democrat
Republican
Republican
Democrat
Republican
Republican
President
Term
Political Party
42. Bill Clinton
43. George W. Bush
44. Barack Obama
1993-2001
2001-2009
2009 - present
Democrat
Republican
Democrat
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Napoleonic War (5 presidents)
XYZ Affair
Alien and Sedition Acts
Embargo Act
Louisiana Purchase
Erie Canal
Missouri Compromise
Monroe Doctrine
Corrupt Bargain
Tariff of Abominations
Indian Removal to OK
Annexation of Texas
Mexican American War
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott Decision
Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg
Emancipation Proclamation
Transcontinental railroad completed
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Haymarket Square bombing in Chicago
Dawes Act
Sioux massacred at Wounded Knee
Sherman Antitrust Act
Homestead Steel Strike
Plessy v. Ferguson upholds separate but equal
Hawaii annexed by U.S.
Spanish-American War
Pure Food and Drug Act
Panama Canal opens
World War I begins
U.S. declares war on Germany
Treaty of Versailles
1st Red Scare and Palmer raids
19th Amendment (women's suffrage) ratified
National Origins Act sets 2% quotas for
immigration
Bonus Expeditionary Force marches on D.C.
Hundred Days of legislation
Huey Long begins Share Our Wealth clubs
Failed court-packing plan
Germany invades Poland
Neutrality Act allows cash-and-carry for military
purchases
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Lend-Lease Act allows U.S. to financially assist
Allied nations
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Dec. 7
Allies invade France at Normandy (D-Day) June 6
Atomic Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki
Marshall Plan provides economic aid to Europe
House Un-American Activities Committee
investigates Hollywood
Korean War (2 presidents)
Brown v. Topeka Board of Education
Martin Luther King, Jr. begins Montgomery Bus
Boycott
Bay of Pigs invasion fails
Cuban Missile Crisis
Civil Rights March on Washington
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed
Viet Cong launch Tet Offensive
Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated
Robert Kennedy assassinated
Apollo 11 crew lands on moon
Kent State Massacre
Watergate break-in occurs at Democratic
Headquarters
Iran militants capture U.S. embassy and take
hostages
U.S. boycotts Moscow Olympics
Iran-Contra affair
Berlin Wall falls
Operation Desert Storm ends Iraq's occupation
of Kuwait