Presidents
45 people.
Abraham Lincoln 1809–1865Presidents16th President who preserved the Union during the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
George Washington 1732–1799PresidentsFirst President of the United States and commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
Donald Trump b. 1946PresidentsBusinessman, media personality, and 45th and 47th president whose populist movement transformed American politics.
Thomas Jefferson 1743–1826PresidentsPrincipal author of the Declaration of Independence and third President who oversaw the Louisiana Purchase.
Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882–1945Presidents32nd President who led the nation through the Great Depression and most of World War II.
John F. Kennedy 1917–1963Presidents35th President whose brief tenure included the Cuban Missile Crisis and the launch of the Apollo program.
Theodore Roosevelt 1858–1919Presidents26th President known for progressive reforms, conservation efforts, and assertive foreign policy.
Andrew Jackson 1767–1845PresidentsSeventh President whose populist policies and Indian Removal Act left a deeply contested legacy.
Barack Obama b. 1961Presidents44th President and first African American to hold the office, known for the Affordable Care Act.
James Madison 1751–1836PresidentsFourth President and Father of the Constitution who co-authored the Federalist Papers.
Ronald Reagan 1911–2004Presidents40th president whose conservative domestic program and assertive Cold War strategy reshaped American politics.
John Adams 1735–1826PresidentsSecond President and key Founding Father who helped secure independence and shaped early American diplomacy.
Ulysses S. Grant 1822–1885Presidents18th President and Union Army general whose leadership was decisive in winning the Civil War.
Richard Nixon 1913–1994Presidents37th President whose foreign policy achievements were overshadowed by the Watergate scandal.
Lyndon B. Johnson 1908–1973Presidents36th President who signed the Civil Rights Act and launched the Great Society programs.
Joe Biden b. 1942Presidents46th president who enacted major infrastructure and climate legislation after decades in the Senate and vice presidency.
Bill Clinton b. 1946Presidents42nd president whose centrist politics, economic agenda, and impeachment shaped the post-Cold War era.
Harry S. Truman 1884–1972Presidents33rd President who authorized the atomic bomb and implemented the Marshall Plan.
Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890–1969Presidents34th President and Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II.
George W. Bush b. 1946Presidents43rd president who led the country after the September 11 attacks and launched wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Woodrow Wilson 1856–1924Presidents28th President who led the nation through World War I and championed the League of Nations.
Jimmy Carter 1924–2024Presidents39th president who emphasized human rights, brokered the Camp David Accords, and built a major post-presidential humanitarian legacy.
George H. W. Bush 1924–2018Presidents41st president who managed the end of the Cold War and assembled the coalition for the Persian Gulf War.
John Quincy Adams 1767–1848PresidentsDiplomat, sixth president, and later congressman who opposed slavery’s expansion and shaped early American foreign policy.
Herbert Hoover 1874–1964PresidentsEngineer and relief administrator whose presidency was consumed by the onset of the Great Depression.
James Monroe 1758–1831PresidentsFifth president associated with the Monroe Doctrine and an era of territorial expansion and one-party dominance.
William Howard Taft 1857–1930PresidentsOnly person to serve as both president and Chief Justice of the United States.
Andrew Johnson 1808–1875Presidents17th president whose obstruction of Reconstruction weakened protections for formerly enslaved people and led to impeachment.
William McKinley 1843–1901PresidentsTwenty-fifth president who led the Spanish-American War and overseas expansion before being assassinated.
Gerald Ford 1913–2006Presidents38th president who restored basic governmental stability after Watergate and controversially pardoned Richard Nixon.
Grover Cleveland 1837–1908PresidentsOnly president elected to nonconsecutive terms who championed limited government and the gold standard.
Calvin Coolidge 1872–1933PresidentsThirtieth president who cut taxes and federal spending during the economic expansion of the 1920s.
James K. Polk 1795–1849PresidentsEleventh president whose expansionist policies added the Southwest and Oregon to the United States.
Martin Van Buren 1782–1862PresidentsEighth president who helped build the Democratic Party machine and governed through the Panic of 1837.
Chester A. Arthur 1829–1886PresidentsTwenty-first president who signed the Pendleton Act establishing merit-based federal hiring.
James Buchanan 1791–1868PresidentsFifteenth president who failed to halt Southern secession in the months before the Civil War.
Warren G. Harding 1865–1923PresidentsTwenty-ninth president whose administration was marked by postwar retrenchment and the Teapot Dome scandal.
James A. Garfield 1831–1881PresidentsTwentieth president assassinated months into office prompting federal civil service reform.
William Henry Harrison 1773–1841PresidentsWhig general elected ninth president who died one month into his term.
Rutherford B. Hayes 1822–1893PresidentsNineteenth president whose disputed election settlement ended federal Reconstruction in the South.
John Tyler 1790–1862PresidentsFirst vice president to assume the presidency on a president's death and to annex Texas.
Benjamin Harrison 1833–1901PresidentsTwenty-third president who signed the Sherman Antitrust Act and expanded the modern navy.Zachary Taylor 1784–1850PresidentsWar hero elected twelfth president who opposed extending slavery into western territories.
Millard Fillmore 1800–1874PresidentsThirteenth president who signed the Compromise of 1850 including the Fugitive Slave Act.
Franklin Pierce 1804–1869PresidentsFourteenth president whose support for the Kansas-Nebraska Act deepened the sectional crisis over slavery.