Presidents

Men who served as President of the United States, the office that defines the executive branch and the American political tradition.

Abraham Lincoln

16th President of the United States, who held the Union together through civil war

Frontier general, champion of the common white man, and 7th President of the United States

17th President of the United States and the first to be impeached

44th President of the United States, 2009–2017

Benjamin Harrison

23rd President of the United States, 1889–1893

42nd President of the United States, 1993–2001

Calvin Coolidge

30th President of the United States, 1923–1929

Chester A. Arthur

21st President of the United States, the machine politician who became an unlikely reformer

45th and 47th President of the United States

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Supreme Allied Commander, 34th President, and the man who warned America about itself

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Four-term president who led America through the Great Depression and World War II

Franklin Pierce

14th President of the United States, 1853–1857

George H.W. Bush

41st President of the United States, 1989–1993

43rd President of the United States, 2001–2009

George Washington

Commander of the Continental Army and First President of the United States

38th President of the United States, 1974–1977

Grover Cleveland

22nd and 24th President of the United States

Harry S. Truman

The haberdasher from Missouri who dropped the bomb, integrated the military, and contained the Soviets

31st President of the United States, 1929–1933

15th President of the United States, 1857–1861

20th President of the United States, who was killed not by a bullet but by his doctors

11th President of the United States and the architect of continental expansion

Father of the Constitution and fourth President of the United States

5th President of the United States and the last of the Founding Fathers to hold the office

39th President of the United States, whose post-presidency eclipsed his time in office

46th President of the United States, 2021–2025

Second President of the United States, 1797–1801

John F. Kennedy

35th President of the United States, 1961–1963

John Quincy Adams

6th President of the United States, diplomat, and antislavery congressman

10th President of the United States, 1841–1845

Lyndon B. Johnson

The Texas dealmaker who built the Great Society and broke himself on Vietnam

Martin Van Buren

8th President of the United States, 1837–1841

Millard Fillmore

13th President of the United States, whose compromise bought a decade and cost a nation

The 37th President who opened China, ended the draft — and became the only president to resign

40th President of the United States, 1981–1989

Rutherford B. Hayes

19th President of the United States, whose disputed election ended Reconstruction

Theodore Roosevelt

26th President who broke trusts, conserved millions of acres, and remade American power

Thomas Jefferson

Author of the Declaration of Independence and Third President of the United States

Ulysses S. Grant

Commanding general of the Union Army and 18th President of the United States

Warren G. Harding

29th President of the United States, 1921–1923

William Henry Harrison

9th President of the United States, 1841

William Howard Taft

27th President and 10th Chief Justice of the United States

William McKinley

25th President of the United States, who led America into empire and was killed for it

Progressive reformer, World War I president, and architect of the modern international order

12th President of the United States, a war hero who died before the crisis could break