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[edit] Presidents of the United States

Although Washington was a member of the Whig Party before the Revolution, after the war he was not a member of any party, though he tended to lean toward Federalist postitions. Since the Formation of the Democratic-Republican party and the Federalist Party, there has always been at least one viable political party. Today the American nation has a two party System. Many have tried to make the nation into a three party system, such as Ralph Nader, and Theodore Roosevelt, but the attempts have all failed.

	President	Years in Office	Political Party	Notes
1	George Washington	1789 - 1797	Unaffiliated	British officer in the French and Indian War, led American forces in Revolution against the British. He was a distant relative of Robert E. Lee. The only President to have been elected without a political party. He did not intend to become president. He did not want to be called king. Although claimed by many to be a Mason, these claims are most likely false.
2	John Adams	1797 - 1801	Federalist
3	Thomas Jefferson	1801 - 1809	Democratic-Republican
4	James Madison	1809 - 1817	Democratic-Republican
5	James Monroe	1817 - 1825	Democratic-Republican
6	John Quincy Adams	1825 - 1829	Democratic-Republican	Son of former President John Adams
7	Andrew Jackson	1829 - 1837	Democrat
8	Martin Van Buren	1837 - 1841	Democrat
9	William Henry Harrison	1841	Whig	Died in Office
10	John Tyler	1841 - 1845	Democrat	Succeeded President Harrison
11	James Knox Polk	1845 - 1849	Democrat
12	Zachary Taylor	1849 - 1850	Whig	Died in Office
13	Millard Fillmore	1850 - 1853	Whig	Succeeded President Taylor
14	Franklin Pierce	1853 - 1857	Democrat
15	James Buchanan	1857 - 1861	Democrat
16	Abraham Lincoln	1861 - 1865	Republican	Assassinated
17	Andrew Johnson	1865 - 1869	Democrat	Succeeded President Lincoln, Impeached by House, Acquitted by one vote in the Senate
18	Hyram Ulysses Grant	1869 - 1877	Republican
19	Rutherford Birchard Hayes	1877 - 1881	Republican
20	James Abram Garfield	1881	Republican	Assassinated
21	Chester Alan Arthur	1881 - 1885	Republican	Succeeded President Garfield
22	(Stephen) Grover Cleveland	1885 - 1889	Democrat	Also served as the 24th President
23	Benjamin Harrison	1889 - 1893	Republican	Grand-son of former President William Henry Harrison
24	(Stephen) Grover Cleveland	1893 - 1897	Democrat	Also served as the 22nd President
25	William McKinley	1897 - 1901	Republican	Assassinated
26	Theodore Roosevelt	1901 - 1909	Republican	Succeeded President McKinley. Roosevelt was Hero of battle of San Juan hill , Esperanto speaker, on the staff of National Geographic while President
27	William Howard Taft	1909 - 1913	Republican
28	(Thomas) Woodrow Wilson	1913 - 1921	Democrat
29	Warren Gamaliel Harding	1921 - 1923	Republican	Died in Office
30	(John) Calvin Coolidge, Jr.	1923 - 1929	Republican	Succeeded President Harding
31	Herbert Clark Hoover	1929 - 1933	Republican
32	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	1933 - 1945	Democrat	Died in Office
33	Harry S Truman	1945 - 1953	Democrat	Succeded President Roosevelt
34	Dwight David Eisenhower	1953 - 1961	Republican
35	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	1961 - 1963	Democrat	Assassinated
36	Lyndon Baines Johnson	1963 - 1969	Democrat	Succeeded President Kennedy
37	Richard Milhous Nixon	1969 - 1974	Republican	Resigned over Watergate, author of No More Vietnams and The Real War
38	Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr.	1974 - 1977	Republican	Succeeded President Nixon
39	James Earl Carter, Jr.	1977 - 1981	Democrat
40	Ronald Wilson Reagan	1981 - 1989	Republican
41	George Herbert Walker Bush	1989 - 1993	Republican
42	William Jefferson Clinton	1993 - 2001	Democrat	Impeached by House, Acquitted by Senate
43	George Walker Bush	2001 - 2009	Republican	Son of former President George Herbert Walker Bush
44	Barack Obama	2009-	Democrat	First Non-Anglo President

[edit] Vice Presidents of the United States

	Vice President	Years in Office	Political Party	Notes
1	John Adams	1789 - 1797	Federalist	Second President
2	Thomas Jefferson	1797 - 1801	Democratic-Republican	Founder of the Democratic-Republican Party
3	Aaron Burr	1801 - 1805	Democratic-Republican	Shot Alexander Hamiltion in the famous duel. Bribed electors to vote for him, and ended up tieing with Jefferson. Result 12th Amendment.
4	George Clinton	1805 - 1812	Democratic-Republican	Died in Office.
5	Elbridge Gerry	1813 - 1814	Democratic-Republican	Died in Office.
6	Daniel D. Tompkins	1817 - 1825	Democratic-Republican	an entrepreneur, jurist, Congressman, Governor of New York, and the sixth Vice President of the United States
7	John Caldwell Calhoun	1825 - 1832	Democratic-Republican	Resigned
8	Martin Van Buren	1833 - 1837	Democrat
9	Richard Mentor Johnson	1837 - 1841	Democrat
10	John Tyler	1841	Whig	Succeded President Harrison
11	George Mifflin Dallas	1845 - 1849	Democrat
12	Millard Fillmore	1849 - 1850	Whig	Succeeded President Taylor
13	William Rufus DeVane King	1853	Democrat	Died in Office, believed that it was "God's will" for the US to conquer Canada and Mexico.
14	John Cabell Breckinridge	1857 - 1861	Democrat
15	Hannibal Hamlin	1861 - 1865	Republican
16	Andrew Johnson	1865	Democrat	Succeded President Lincoln
17	Schuyler Colfax	1869 - 1873	Republican	President Ulysses S. Grant and Vice President Colfax, both 46 at time of entering offices, were the youngest Presidential team until election of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in 1992.
18	Henry Wilson	1873 - 1875	Republican	Died in Office
19	William Almon Wheeler	1877 - 1881	Republican
20	Chester Alan Arthur	1881	Republican	Succeded President Garfield
21	Thomas Andrews Hendricks	1885	Democrat	Died in Office
22	Levi Parsons Morton	1889 - 1893	Republican
23	Adlai Ewing Stevenson	1893 - 1897	Democrat
24	Garret Augustus Hobart	1897 - 1899	Republican	Died in Office
25	Theodore Roosevelt	1901	Republican	Succeded President McKinley
26	Charles Warren Fairbanks	1905 - 1909	Republican
27	James Schoolcraft Sherman	1909 - 1912	Republican	Died in Office
28	Thomas Riley Marshall	1913 - 1921	Democrat
29	John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.	1921 - 1923	Republican	Succeded President Harding
30	Charles Gates Dawes	1925 - 1929	Republican
31	Charles Curtis	1929 - 1933	Republican
32	John Nance Garner	1933 - 1941	Democrat
33	Henry Agard Wallace	1941 - 1945	Democrat
34	Harry S Truman	1945	Democrat	Succeded President Roosevelt
35	Alben William Barkley	1949 - 1953	Democrat
36	Richard Milhous Nixon	1953 - 1961	Republican
37	Lyndon Baines Johnson	1961 - 1963	Democrat	Succeded President Kennedy
38	Hubert Horatio Humphrey	1965 - 1969	Democrat
39	Spiro Theodore Agnew	1969 - 1973	Republican	Resigned
40	Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr.	1973 - 1974	Republican	Succeded President Nixon
41	Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller	1974 - 1977	Republican
42	Walter Frederick Mondale	1977 - 1981	Democrat
43	George Herbert Walker Bush	1981 - 1989	Republican
44	James Danforth Quayle III	1989 - 1993	Republican
45	Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.	1993 - 2001	Democrat	Nobel Prize winner for film "An Inconvenient Truth", ran unsuccessfully against Bush in 2000
46	Richard Bruce Cheney	2001 - 2009	Republican
47	Joseph Biden	2009 -	Democrat	Senator for the state of Delaware for 36 years