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This guide provides historic and current information about the U.S. Presidency.
Presidential Portraits (Source: Library of Congress)
This part of the document concerns the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government. It has four sections:
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| George Washington (1789–1797) | John Adams (1797–1801) | Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809) |
| James Madison (1809–1817) | James Monroe (1817–1825) | John Quincy Adams (1825–1829) |
| Andrew Jackson (1829–1837) | Martin Van Buren (1837–1841) | William Henry Harrison (1841) |
| John Tyler (1841–1845) | James Polk (1845–1849) | Zachary Taylor (1849–1850) |
| Millard Fillmore (1850–1853) | Franklin Pierce (1853–1857) | James Buchanan (1857–1861) |
| Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865) | Andrew Johnson (1865–1869) | Ulysses S. Grant (1869–1877) |
| Rutherford B. Hayes (1877–1881) | James Garfield (1881) | Chester Arthur (1881–1885) |
| Grover Cleveland (1885–1889) | Benjamin Harrison (1889–1893) | Grover Cleveland (1893–1897) |
| William McKinley (1897–1901) | Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909) | William H. Taft (1909–1913) |
| Woodrow Wilson (1913–1921) | Warren Harding (1921–1923) | Calvin Coolidge (1923–1929) |
| Herbert Hoover (1929–1933) | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945) | Harry S. Truman (1945–1953) |
| Dwight Eisenhower (1953–1961) | John F. Kennedy (1961–1963) | Lyndon Johnson (1963–1969) |
| Richard Nixon (1969–1974) | Gerald Ford (1974–1977) | Jimmy Carter (1977–1981) |
| Ronald Reagan (1981–1989) | George H. W. Bush (1989–1993) | William J. Clinton (1993–2001) |
| George W. Bush (2001–2009) | Barack Obama (2009–2017) | Donald J. Trump (2017–2021) |
| Joseph Biden (2021–2025) | Donald J. Trump (2025–Present) |
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