Political Parties in Control By Autfilarg Jan 1, 1789 George Washington - Federalist Period: Jan 1, 1789 to Jan 1, 2001 Political Parties in Control Jan 1, 1797 John Adams - Federalist Jan 1, 1801 Thomas Jefferson - Democratic Republican Jan 1, 1809 James Madison - Democratic Republican Jan 1, 1817 James Monroe - Democratic Republican Jan 1, 1825 John Q. Adams - Democratic Republican Jan 1, 1829 Andrew Jackson - Democrat Jan 1, 1837 Martin Van Buren - Democrat Jan 1, 1841 William H. Harrison - Whig Jan 1, 1841 John Tyler - Democrat Jan 1, 1845 James K. Polk - Democrat Jan 1, 1849 Zachary Taylor - Whig Jan 1, 1850 Millard Fillmore - Whig Jan 1, 1853 Franklin Pierce - Democrat Jan 1, 1857 James Buchanan - Democrat Jan 1, 1861 Abraham Lincoln - Republican Jan 1, 1865 Andrew Johnson - Democrat Jan 1, 1869 Ulysses S. Grant - Republican Jan 1, 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes - Republican Jan 1, 1881 James A. Garfield - Republican Jan 1, 1881 Chester A. Arthur - Republican Jan 1, 1885 Grover Cleveland - Democrat Jan 1, 1889 Benjamin Harrison - Republican Jan 1, 1893 Grover Cleveland - Democrat Jan 1, 1897 William McKinley - Republican Jan 1, 1901 Theodore Roosevelt - Republican Jan 1, 1909 William H. Taft - Republican Jan 1, 1913 Woodrow Wilson - Democrat Jan 1, 1921 Warren G. Harding - Republican Jan 1, 1923 Calvin Coolidge - Republican Jan 1, 1929 Herbert Hoover - Republican Jan 1, 1933 Franklin Roosevelt - Democrat Jan 1, 1945 Harry S. Truman - Democrat Jan 1, 1953 Dwight D. Eisenhower - Republican Jan 1, 1961 John F. Kennedy - Democrat Jan 1, 1963 Lyndon B. Johnson - Democrat Jan 1, 1969 Richard M. Nixon - Republican Jan 1, 1974 Gerald R. Ford - Republican Jan 1, 1977 James E. Carter - Democrat Jan 1, 1981 Ronald W. Reagan - Republican Jan 1, 1989 George H.W. Bush - Republican Jan 1, 1993 William J. Clinton - Democrat Jan 1, 2001 George W. Bush - Republican Period: Jan 1, 2001 to Jan 1, 2009 Obama Jan 1, 2009 Barack H. Obama - Democrat
