Presidents

George Washington

Period: 1789 to 1797

Number President: 1st President
Political Party: Federalist
Terms Served/Years Served: 2 terms served
Events During Presidency:
Ratification of the Constitution
National Bank creation
Bill of Rights
Proclamation of Neutrality
Jefferson resignation
Citizen Genet
Battle of Fallen Timbers
Jay’s Treaty
Whiskey Rebellion
Washington’s Farewell Address

John Adams

Period: 1797 to 1801

Number President: 2nd President
Political Party: Federalist
Terms Served/Years Served: 1 term served
Events During Presidency:
XYZ Affair
Alien and Sedition Acts
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
Revolution of 1800

Thomas Jefferson

Period: 1801 to 1809

Number President: 3rd President
Political Party: Democratic-Republican
Terms Served/Years Served: 2 terms served
Events During Presidency:
Marbury v. Madison
Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark
Cumberland Road
The Embargo Act
Chesapeake Leopard Affair
The Non-Intercourse Act

James Madison

Period: 1809 to 1817

Number President: 4th President
Political Party: Democratic-Republican
Terms Served/Years Served: 2 terms served
Events During Presidency:
Barbary Pirates
Macon's Bill Number 2
Battle of Tippecanoe
War of 1812
Battle of Horseshoe Bend
Treaty of Ghent
Battle of New Orleans

James Monroe

Period: 1817 to 1825

Number President: 5th President
Political Party: Democratic-Republican
Terms Served/Years Served: 2 terms served
Events During Presidency:
Rush-Bagot Agreement
First Seminole War
Panic of 1819
Adams-Onis Treaty
McCulloch vs. Maryland
Missouri Compromise
Monroe Doctrine
Tariff of 1824

John Quincy Adams

Period: 1825 to 1829

Number President: 6th President
Political Party: Whigs
Terms Served/Years Served: 1 term served
Events During Presidency:
Corrupt Bargain
Tariff of Abominations

Andrew Jackson

Period: 1829 to 1837

Number President: 7th President
Political Party: Democrat
Terms Served/Years Served: 2 terms served
Events During Presidency:
Indian Removal Act
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Veto of Maysville Road bill
Veto of 2nd Bank of the United States
Nullification Crisis
Force Bill
Specie Circular

Martin Van Buren

Period: 1837 to 1841

Number President: 8th President
Political Party: Democrat
Terms Served/Years Served: 1 term served
Events During Presidency:
Panic of 1837
End of Aroostook War(led to Webster Ashburton Treaty)

William Henry Harrison

Period: 1841 to 1841

Number President: 9th President
Political Party: Whigs
Terms Served/Years Served: 1 term served(died after 1 month)
Events During Presidency:
Die from pneumonia

John Tyler

Period: 1841 to 1845

Number President: 10th President
Political Party: Whigs(Democrat policies)
Terms Served/Years Served: 1 term served
Events During Presidency:
Commonwealth v. Hunt
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Texas Annexation

James K. Polk

Period: 1845 to 1849

Number President: 11th President
Political Party: Democrat
Terms Served/Years Served: 1 term served
Events During Presidency:
1st Wave of Immigration
“Manifest Destiny”
Mexican-American War
Tariff of 1846
Mormon migration
Gold Rush begins
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Seneca Falls Convention

Zachary Taylor

Period: 1849 to 1850

Number President: 12th President
Political Party: Whigs
Terms Served/Years Served: 1 term served(died after 1 year)
Events During Presidency:
Compromise of 1850
Dies in office from sickness

Millard Filmore

Period: 1850 to 1853

Number President: 13th President
Political Party: Whigs
Terms Served/Years Served: 1 term served
Events During Presidency:
Fugitive Slave Bill
Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Franklin Pierce

Period: 1853 to 1857

Number President: 14th President
Political Party: Democrat
Terms Served/Years Served: 1 term served
Events During Presidency:
“Bleeding Kansas”
Gadsden Purchase
Treaty of Kanagawa
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Ostend Manifesto

James Buchanan

Period: 1857 to 1861

Number President: 15th President
Political Party: Democrat
Terms Served/Years Served: 1 term served
Events During Presidency:
Comstock Lode
Dred Scott decision
Harper’s Ferry
South Caroline secedes
Confederacy created

Abraham Lincoln

Period: 1861 to 1865

Number President: 16th President
Political Party: Republican
Terms Served/Years Served: 2 terms served(died about a month later)
Events During Presidency:
Fort Sumter
Morrill Tariff
Civil War
Emancipation Proclamation
Monitor v Merrimac
Gettysburg Address
13th Amendment
Freedmen’s Bureau created
Surrender at Appomattox court house
Dies from Confederate shooter

Andrew Johnson

Period: 1865 to 1869

Number President: 17th President
Political Party: Democrat
Terms Served/Years Served: 1 term served
Events During Presidency:
Johnson grants amnesty to Confederates
Black Codes
Veto of Civil Rights Act
14th Amendment
Military Reconstruction
“Seward’s Icebox”- Alaska acquired
Obtained Midway Islands
Violates of Tenure of Office Act
Impeached, but trial fails

Ulysses S. Grant

Period: 1869 to 1877

Number President: 18th President
Political Party: Republican
Terms Served/Years Served: 2 terms served
Events During Presidency:
15th Amendment
Voting Rights and the KKK
Indian Appropriation Act
Ku Klux Klan Act
Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed
Crime of 1873
Credit Mobilier
Panic of 1873]
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Battle of Little Bighorn

Rutherford B. Hayes

Period: 1877 to 1881

Number President: 19th President
Political Party: Republican
Terms Served/Years Served: 1 term served
Events During Presidency:
Withdrawal of military from south
Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Knights of Labor
Bland-Allison Act
Limits Chinese immigration

James A Garfield

Period: 1881 to 1881

Number President: 20th President
Political Party: Republican
Terms Served/Years Served: 1 term served(died about 6 months later)
Events During Presidency:
Dies to disgruntled patronage promised person

Chester A. Arthur

Period: 1881 to 1885

Number President: 21st President
Political Party: Republican
Terms Served/Years Served: 1 term served
Events During Presidency:
Chinese Exclusion Act
Civil Service Reform Act
Statue of Liberty presented

Grover Cleveland

Period: 1885 to 1889

Number President: 22nd President
Political Party: Democrat
Terms Served/Years Served: 2 terms served(separately)
Events During Presidency:
Presidential Succession Act
Acceptance of statue of liberty
American Federation of Labor
Dawes Act
Chinese Exclusion Act

Benjamin Harrison

Period: 1889 to 1893

Number President: 23rd President
Political Party: Republican
Terms Served/Years Served: 1 term served
Events During Presidency:
Berlin Conference
First Pan-American Conference
Sherman Antitrust Act
Sherman Silver Purchase Act
McKinley Tariff
Chilean Conflict
Ultimatum with Chile
Homestead Steel Strike
Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii deposed
Attempt to annex Hawaii

Grover Cleveland

Period: 1893 to 1897

Number President: 24th President
Political Party: Democrat
Terms Served/Years Served: 2 terms served(separately)
Events During Presidency:
Panic of 1893
Sherman Silver Purchase Act
Coxey’s Army
Pullman Strike
Venezuela Boundary Dispute
Recognition of the Republic of Hawaii

William McKinley

Period: 1897 to 1901

Number President: 25th President
Political Party: Republican
Terms Served/Years Served: 2 terms served(died about 6 months later)
Events During Presidency:
Klondike (Alaskan) Gold Rush
Dingley Tariff
USS Maine explodes
De Lome’s Letter
Volunteer Army Riders
Spanish American War
Hawaii annexed
Treaty of Paris
Open Door Notes
Platt Amendment
Philippine Insurrection ends

Theodore Roosevelt

Period: 1901 to 1909

Number President: 26th President
Political Party: Republican
Terms Served/Years Served: 2 terms served
Events During Presidency:
Big Stick Diplomacy
Chinese Exclusion Act
Coal Miners Strike
Funding of Panama Canal
Hay-Buneau-Varilla Treaty
Sherman Antitrust Act
Portsmouth Treaty
NAACP formed
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Panic of 1907
Great White Fleet
Restrictions on Japanese Immigration

William Howard Taft

Period: 1909 to 1913

Number President: 27th President
Political Party: Republican
Terms Served/Years Served: 1 term served
Events During Presidency:
Payne Aldrich Tariff Act
Pinchot-Ballinger Controversy
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Standard Oil Trust Busted
Socialist Party formed
8 hour work days authorized
16th Amendment

Woodrow Wilson

Period: 1913 to 1921

Number President: 28th President
Political Party: Democrat
Terms Served/Years Served: 2 terms served
Events During Presidency:
17th Amendment
Federal Reserve Act
World War I
Clayton Antitrust Act
Sinking of the Lusitania
John Pershing chases Pancho Villa
“Sussex Pledge”
Zimmerman Telegram
Committee on Public Information
Selective Service Act
18th Amendment
“14 Points” Address
Espionage and Sedition Acts
Schenck v. the United States
19th Amendment
Treaty of Versailles
Strikes of 1919

Warren G. Harding

Period: 1921 to 1923

Number President: 29th President
Political Party: Republican
Terms Served/Years Served: 1 term served(died after 2 years)
Events During Presidency:
Emergency Quota Act
Washington Conference
Teapot Dome Scandal
Volstead Act

Calvin Coolidge

Period: 1923 to 1929

Number President: 30th President
Political Party: Republican
Terms Served/Years Served: 1 term served
Events During Presidency:
Dawes Plan
Scopes Trial
Charles Lindbergh completes his flight
Sacco and Venzetti executed
Kellogg-Briand Pact

Herbert Hoover

Period: 1929 to 1933

Number President: 31st President
Political Party: Republican
Terms Served/Years Served: 1 term served
Events During Presidency:
Black Thursday and Black Tuesday
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
Al Capone convicted
Amelia Earhart completes flight
Bonus March

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Period: 1933 to 1945

Number President: 32nd President
Political Party: Democratic
Terms Served/Years Served: 4 terms served
Events During Presidency:
Bank Holiday
Fireside Chats
Federal Emergency Relief Act
Hundred Days
Tydings McDuffee Act
Alphabet Soup
WWII
Yalta Conference
Iwo Jima

Harry S. Truman

Period: 1945 to 1953

Number President: 33rd President
Political Party: Democratic
Terms Served/Years Served: 2 terms served
Events During Presidency:
Potsdam Conference
Atomic Bombs
Employment of 1946
Containment Policy
Taft-Hartley Act
CIA
Berlin Airlift
Desegregation of the Military
Fair Deal
NATO
Second Red Scare
Korean War

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Period: 1953 to 1961

Number President: 34th President
Political Party: Republican
Terms Served/Years Served: 2 terms served
Events During Presidency:
Age of Conformity, Highways
Departments of Health, Education, Welfare
Korean Armistice
Brown v. Topeka Board of Education
Vietnam Conflict
Geneva Convention
Detente
Civil Rights nonviolent protests
Eisenhower Doctrine
Space Race begins
Civil Rights Act of 1957, 1960
Cuban Revolution

John F. Kennedy

Period: 1961 to 1963

Number President: 35th President
Political Party: Democratic
Terms Served/Years Served: 1 term served(died after 2 years)
Events During Presidency:
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Space Race
James Meredith
Cuban Missile Crisis
March on Washington

Lyndon B. Johnson

Period: 1963 to 1969

Number President: 36th President
Political Party: Democratic
Terms Served/Years Served: 1 term served
Events During Presidency:
24th Amendment
Great Society
Barry Goldwater emerges
Freedom Summers
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Vietnam escalation
Selma March
Malcolm X and MLK Jr. Assassinations
Voting Rights Act
Civil Rights Act
Watts Riots
Tet Offensive
Credibility Gap

Richard Nixon

Period: 1969 to 1974

Number President: 37th President
Political Party: Republican
Terms Served/Years Served: 2 terms served
Events During Presidency:
Nixon Doctrine
Moon Landing
Environmental Protection Agency
Clean Air Bill
Pentagon Papers
Watergate
Resignation

Gerald Ford

Period: 1974 to 1977

Number President: 38th President
Political Party: Republican
Terms Served/Years Served: 1 term served
Events During Presidency:
Nixon pardoning
WIN campaign
Airstrikes in Cambodia

Jimmy Carter

Period: 1977 to 1981

Number President: 39th President
Political Party: Democratic
Terms Served/Years Served: 1 term served
Events During Presidency:
Camp David Accords
SALT II
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Carter Doctrine

Ronald Reagan

Period: 1981 to 1989

Number President: 40th President
Political Party: Republican
Terms Served/Years Served: 2 terms served
Events During Presidency:
Iran hostages released
Sandra Day O’Connor gets elected
Invasion of Grenada
Iran-Contra Affair
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
Reaganomics

George H.W. Bush

Period: 1989 to 1993

Number President: 41st President
Political Party: Republican
Terms Served/Years Served: 1 term served
Events During Presidency:
Arms Reduction Agreement
Berlin Wall falls
Americans with Disabilities Act
Persian Gulf War
Operation Desert Storm
Clean Air Act
Panama Invasion
Tiananmen Square
START-I

Bill Clinton

Period: 1993 to 2001

Number President: 42nd President
Political Party: Democratic
Terms Served/Years Served: 2 terms served
Events During Presidency:
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation
Battle of Mogadishu
Israel-Jordan Talks
Oklahoma City Bombings
Balancing the Budget
Monica Lewinsky affair

George W. Bush

Period: 2001 to 2009

Number President: 43rd President
Political Party: Republican
Terms Served/Years Served: 2 terms served
Events During Presidency:
Bush v. Gore
9/11
Operation Enduring Freedom
No Child Left Behind
Hurricane Katrina
Stock market crash

Barack Obama

Period: 2009 to 2017

Donald Trump

Period: 2017 to 2021

Joseph Biden

Period: 2021 to 2025