Presidents of the USA By asselinc20 Apr 30, 1789 George Washington becomes first president. Mar 4, 1797 John Adams becomes second president. Mar 4, 1801 Thomas Jefferson becomes third president. Mar 4, 1809 James Madison becomes fourth president. Mar 4, 1817 James Monroe becomes fifth president. Mar 4, 1825 John Quincy Adams becomes sixth president Mar 4, 1829 Andrew Jackson becomes seventh president. Mar 4, 1837 Martin Van Buren becomes eighth president. Mar 4, 1841 William Harrison becomes ninth president. Apr 4, 1841 John Tyler becomes tenth president. Mar 4, 1845 James Polk becomes eleventh president. Mar 4, 1849 Zachary Taylor becomes twelveth president. Jul 9, 1850 Millard Fillmore becomes thirteenth president. Mar 4, 1853 Franklin Pierce becomes fourteenth president. Mar 4, 1857 James Bunchanan becomes fifteenth president Mar 4, 1861 Abrahan Lincoln becomes sixteenth president Apr 15, 1865 Andrew Johnson becomes seventeenth president Mar 4, 1869 Ulysses Grant becomes eighteenth president Mar 4, 1877 Rutherford Hayes becomes ninteenth president Mar 4, 1881 James Garfield becomes twenty-ith president Sep 19, 1881 Chester Arthur becomes twenty-first president Mar 4, 1885 Grover Cleveland becomes twenty-second president Mar 4, 1889 Benjamin Harrison becomes twenty-third president Mar 4, 1893 Grover Cleveland becomes president again Mar 4, 1897 William McKinley becomes twenty-fourth president Sep 14, 1901 Theodore Roosevelt becomes twenty-fifth president Mar 4, 1909 William Taft becomes twenty-sixth president Mar 4, 1913 Woodrow Wilson becomes twenty-seventh president Mar 4, 1921 Warren Harding becomes twenty-eighth president Aug 2, 1923 Calvin Coolidge becomes twenty-ninth president Mar 4, 1929 Herbert Hoover becomes thirty-ith president Mar 4, 1933 Franklin Roosevelt becomes thirty-first president Apr 12, 1945 Harry Truman becomes thirty-third president Jan 20, 1953 Dwight Eisinhower becomes thirty-fourth president Jan 20, 1961 John Kennedy becomes thirty-fifth president Nov 22, 1963 Lyden Johnson becomes thirty-sixth president Jan 20, 1969 Richard Nixon becomes thirty-seventh president Aug 9, 1974 Gerald Ford becomes thirty-eighth president Jan 20, 1977 Jimmy Carter becomes thirty-ninth president Jan 21, 1981 Ronald Reagan becomes fourty-ith president Jan 20, 1989 George H. W. Bush becomes fourty-first president Jan 20, 1993 Bill Clinton becomes fourty-second president Jan 20, 2001 George W. Bush becomes fourty-third president Jan 20, 2009 Barack Obama becomes fourty-fourth president