Presidential Timeline 1789 - Present By krystinpavey Apr 30, 1789 George Washington Mar 4, 1797 John Adams Mar 4, 1801 Thomas Jefferson Mar 4, 1809 James Madison Mar 4, 1817 James Monroe Mar 4, 1825 John Quincy Adams Mar 4, 1829 Andrew Jackson Mar 4, 1837 Martin Van Buren Mar 4, 1841 William Henry Harrison Apr 4, 1841 John Tyler Mar 4, 1845 James K. Polk Mar 4, 1849 Zachary Taylor Jul 9, 1850 Millard Fillmore Mar 4, 1853 Franklin Pierce Mar 4, 1857 James Buchanan Mar 4, 1861 Abraham Lincoln Apr 15, 1865 Andrew Johnaon Mar 4, 1869 Ulysses S. Grant Mar 4, 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes Mar 4, 1881 James A. Garfield Sep 19, 1881 Chester Alan Arthur Mar 4, 1885 Grover Cleveland Mar 4, 1889 Benjamin Harrison Mar 4, 1893 Grover Cleveland Mar 4, 1897 William McKinley Sep 14, 1901 Theodore Roosevelt Mar 4, 1909 William H. Taft Mar 4, 1913 Woodrow Wilson Mar 4, 1921 Warren G. Harding Aug 2, 1923 Calvin Coolidge Mar 4, 1929 Herbert Hoover Mar 4, 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt Apr 12, 1945 Harry S. Truman Jan 20, 1953 Dwight D. Eisenhower Jan 20, 1961 John F. Kennedy Nov 22, 1963 Lyndon B. Johnson Jan 20, 1969 Richard M. Nixon Aug 9, 1974 Gerald Ford Jan 20, 1977 Jimmy Carter Jan 20, 1981 Ronald Reagan Jan 20, 1989 George H. W. Bush Jan 20, 1993 Bill Clinton Jan 20, 2001 George W. Bush Jan 20, 2009 Barack Obama