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# President Took office Left office Party Vice President Term
1 George Washington April 30 1789 March 4 1797 No party John Adams 1
2
2 John Adams March 4 1797 March 4 1801 Federalist Thomas Jefferson 3
3 Thomas Jefferson March 4 1801 March 4 1809 Democratic-Republican Aaron Burr 4
George Clinton 5
4 James Madison March 4 1809 March 4 1817 Democratic-Republican George Clinton[1]
vacant
6
Elbridge Gerry[1]
vacant
7
5 James Monroe March 4 1817 March 4 1825 Democratic-Republican Daniel Tompkins 8
9
6 John Quincy Adams March 4 1825 March 4 1829 Democratic-Republican John Calhoun 10
7 Andrew Jackson March 4 1829 March 4 1837 Democratic John Calhoun[2]
vacant
11
Martin Van Buren 12
8 Martin Van Buren March 4 1837 March 4 1841 Democratic Richard Johnson 13
9 William H. Harrison March 4 1841 April 4 1841[1] Whig John Tyler 14
10 John Tyler April 4 1841 March 4 1845 Whig
No party[3]
vacant
11 James K. Polk March 4 1845 March 4 1849 Democratic George Dallas 15
12 Zachary Taylor March 4 1849 July 9 1850[1] Whig Millard Fillmore 16
13 Millard Fillmore July 9 1850 March 4 1853 Whig vacant
14 Franklin Pierce March 4 1853 March 4 1857 Democratic William King[1]
vacant
17
15 James Buchanan March 4 1857 March 4 1861 Democratic John Breckinridge 18
16 Abraham Lincoln March 4 1861 April 15 1865[4] Republican
National Union[5]
Hannibal Hamlin 19
Andrew Johnson 20
17 Andrew Johnson April 15 1865 March 4 1869 Democratic
National Union[5]
vacant
18 Ulysses S. Grant March 4 1869 March 4 1877 Republican Schuyler Colfax 21
Henry Wilson[1]
vacant
22
19 Rutherford B. Hayes March 4 1877 March 4 1881 Republican William Wheeler 23
20 James Garfield March 4 1881 September 19 1881[4] Republican Chester A. Arthur 24
21 Chester A. Arthur September 19 1881 March 4 1885 Republican vacant
22 Grover Cleveland March 4 1885 March 4 1889 Democratic Thomas Hendricks[1]
vacant
25
23 Benjamin Harrison March 4 1889 March 4 1893 Republican Levi Morton 26
24 Grover Cleveland
(2nd term)
March 4 1893 March 4 1897 Democratic Adlai E. Stevenson 27
25 William McKinley March 4 1897 September 14 1901[4] Republican Garret Hobart[1]
vacant
28
  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Died in office of natural causes.
  2. ^ Resigned.
  3. ^ Former Democrat who ran for Vice President on Whig ticket. Clashed with Whig congressional leaders and was expelled from the Whig party in 1841.
  4. ^ a b c Assassinated.
  5. ^ a b Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson were, respectively, a Republican and a Democrat who ran on the National Union ticket in 1864.