Political Party History

Thomas Jefferson

Mar 4, 1801

Democratic Republican

James Madison

Mar 4, 1809

Democratic Republican

James Monroe

Mar 4, 1817

Democratic Republican

John Quincey Adams

Mar 4, 1825

Democratic Republican

Hamiltonians and Jeffersonians Era

Period: Nov 18, 1828 to Nov 18, 1856

Andrew Jackson

Mar 4, 1829

Democratic

Democratic and Whig Era

Period: Mar 4, 1830 to Mar 4, 1850

Martin Van Buren

Mar 4, 1837

Democratic

William Henry Harrison

Mar 4, 1841

Whig

John Tyler

Apr 4, 1841

Whig

James Polk

Mar 4, 1845

Democratic

Zachary Taylor

Mar 4, 1849

Whig

Millard Fillmore

Jul 9, 1850

Whig

Franklin Pierce

Mar 4, 1853

Democratic

James Buchanan

Mar 4, 1857

Democratic

Federalists and Republican Era

Period: Nov 19, 1860 to Nov 19, 1928

Abraham Lincoln

Mar 4, 1861

Republican

Andrew Johnson

Apr 15, 1865

Democratic

Ulysses S. Grant

Mar 4, 1869

Republican

Rutherford B. Hayes

Mar 4, 1877

Republican

James Garfield

Mar 4, 1881

Republican

Chester Arthur

Sep 19, 1881

Republican

Grover Cleveland

Mar 4, 1885

Democratic

Benjamin Harrison

Mar 4, 1889

Republican

Grover Cleveland

Mar 4, 1893

Democratic

Republican and Democratic Era

Period: Mar 9, 1896 to Mar 29, 1932

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William McKinley

Mar 4, 1897

Republican

Theodore Roosevelt

Sep 14, 1901

Republican

William Taft

Mar 4, 1909

Republican

Woodrow Wilson

Mar 4, 1913

Democratic

Warren Harding

Mar 4, 1921

Republican

Calvin Coolidge

Aug 2, 1923

Republican

Herbert Hoover

Mar 4, 1929

Republican

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Mar 4, 1933

Democratic

Harry Truman

Apr 12, 1945

Democratic

Dwight Eisenhower

Jan 20, 1953

Republican

John F. Kennedy

Jan 20, 1961

Democratic

Lyndon Johnson

Nov 22, 1963

Democratic

Richard Nixon

Jan 20, 1969

Republican

Gerald Ford

Aug 9, 1974

Republican

Jimmy Carter

Jan 20, 1977

Democratic

Ronald Reagan

Jan 20, 1981

Republican

George Bush

Jan 20, 1989

Republican

Bill Clinton

Jan 20, 1993

Democratic

George Bush

Jan 20, 2001

Republican

Barack Obama

Jan 20, 2009

Democratic

The political party majority in congress is republican.

Period: Oct 24, 2013 to Oct 27, 2013