political system By tdm5346 Mar 4, 1797 John Adams Federalist Party Period: Oct 22, 1800 to Oct 22, 1860 Era of Democrats Mar 4, 1801 Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican Party Mar 4, 1809 James Madison Democratic-Republican Party Mar 4, 1817 James Monroe Democratic-Republican Party Mar 4, 1825 John Quincy Adams Democratic-Republican Party Mar 4, 1829 Andrew Jackson Democratic Party Mar 4, 1837 Martin Van Buren Democratic Party Mar 4, 1841 William Henry Harrison Whig Party Apr 4, 1841 John Tyler Whig Party Mar 4, 1845 James K. Polk Democratic Party Mar 4, 1849 Zachary Taylor Whig Party Mar 4, 1850 Millard Fillmore Whig Party Mar 4, 1853 Franklin Pierce Democratic Party Mar 4, 1857 James Buchanan Democratic Party Period: Oct 22, 1860 to Oct 22, 1932 Era of Republicans Mar 4, 1861 Abraham Lincoln Republican Party Apr 15, 1865 Andrew Johnson Democratic Party Mar 4, 1869 Ulysses S. Grant Republican Party Mar 4, 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes Republican Party Mar 4, 1881 James A. Garfield Republican Party Sep 19, 1881 Chester A. Arthur Republican Party Mar 4, 1885 Grover Cleveland Democratic Party Mar 4, 1889 Benjamin Harrison Republican Party Mar 4, 1893 Grover Cleveland Democratic Party Mar 4, 1897 William McKinley Republican Party Sep 14, 1901 Theodore Roosevelt Republican Party Mar 4, 1909 William Howard Taft Republican Party Mar 4, 1913 Woodrow Wilson Democratic Party Mar 4, 1921 Warren G. Harding Republican Party Aug 2, 1923 Calvin Coolidge Republican Party Mar 4, 1929 Herbert Hoover Republican Party Period: Oct 22, 1932 to Oct 22, 1968 Era of Democrats Mar 4, 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party Apr 12, 1945 Harry S. Truman Democratic Party Jan 20, 1953 Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican Party Jan 20, 1961 John F. Kennedy Democratic Party Nov 22, 1963 Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Party Period: Oct 22, 1968 to Oct 22, 2013 Era of Divided Government Jan 20, 1969 Richard Nixon Republican Party Aug 9, 1974 Gerald Ford Republican Party Jan 20, 1977 Jimmy Carter Democratic Party Jan 20, 1981 Ronald Reagan Republican Party Jan 20, 1989 George H. W. Bush Republican Party Jan 20, 1993 Bill Clinton Democratic Party Jan 20, 2001 George W. Bush Republican Party Jan 20, 2009 Barack Obama Democratic Party