U.S. History Presidents

George Washington Presidency

Period: 1789 to 1797

Political Party: N/A
Significant Event: policy of neutrality, Jay Treaty, Whiskey Rebellion

John Adams Presidency

Period: 1797 to 1801

Political Party: Federalist Party
Significant Event: XYZ Affair, kept U.S. out of war with France

Thomas Jefferson Presidency

Period: 1801 to 1809

Political Party: Democratic Republican Party
Significant Event: Louisiana Purchase, Louis and Clark Expeditions

James Madison Presidency

Period: 1809 to 1817

Political Party: Democratic Republican Party
Significant Event: War of 1812

James Monroe Presidency

Period: 1817 to 1825

Political Party: Democratic Republican Party
Significant Event: Monroe Doctrine

Calvin Coolidge

Period: 1823 to 1829

Political Party: Republican Party
Significant Event: Dawes Plan

John Quincy Adams Presidency

Period: 1825 to 1829

Political Party: Whig Party
Significant Event: Completion of Erie Canal/Tariff of Abomination

Andrew Jackson Presidency

Period: 1829 to 1837

Political Party: Democratic Party
Significant Event: Signing of the Indian Removal Act, Peggy Eaton Affair

Martin Van Buren Presidency

Period: 1837 to 1841

Political Party: Democratic Party
Significant Event: Trail of Tears, Panic of 1837

William Henry Harrison Presidency

Period: Mar 4, 1841 to Apr 4, 1841

Political Party: Whig Party
Significant Event: First president to die in office

John Tyler Presidency

Period: Apr 6, 1841 to 1845

Political Party: Whig Party
Significant Event: joint resolution to annex Texas was signed, Tariff bill

James Knox Polk Presidency

Period: 1845 to 1849

Political Party: Democratic Party
Significant Event: acquisition of Oregon Territory, California, and New Mexico Territory

Zachary Taylor Presidency

Period: 1849 to 1850

Political Party: Whig Party
Significant event: California and New Mexico statehood attempts

Millard Fillmore Presidency

Period: 1850 to 1853

Political Party: Whig Party
Significant event: Compromise of 1850

Franklin Pierce Presidency

Period: 1853 to 1857

Political Party: Democratic Party
Significant event: Gadson Purchase, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas and John Brown

James Buchanan Presidency

Period: 1857 to 1861

Political Party: Democratic Party
Significant Event: Dred Scott Decision, South Carolina along with 10 states secede

Abraham Lincoln Presidency

Period: 1861 to 1865

Political Party: Republican Party
Significant event: the Civil War

Andrew Johnson Presidency

Period: 1865 to 1869

Political Party: Democratic Party
Significant event: vetoes Freedman's Bureau + the Civil Rights Act, purchase of Alaska, 14th Amendment

Ulysses S. Grant Presidency

Period: 1869 to 1877

Political Party: Republican Party
Significant Events: 15th Amendment, Panic of 1873, Civil Rights act of 1875

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidency

Period: 1877 to 1881

Political Party: Republican Party
Significant Event: Civil Service Reform

James A. Garfield Presidency

Period: Mar 4, 1881 to Sep 19, 1881

Political Party: Republican Party
Significant Event: his death leads to Pendleton Act

Chester Arthur Presidency

Period: Sep 19, 1881 to 1885

Political Party: Republican Party
Significant Event: Civil Service Reform Act/Pendleton Act

Grover Cleveland Presidency

Period: 1885 to 1889

Political Party: National Democratic Party
Significant event: Presidential Succession Act, Chinese Exclusion Act

Benjamin Harrison Presidency

Period: 1889 to 1893

Political Party: Republican Party
Significant Event: McKinley Tariff, Sherman Antitrust Act

Grover Cleveland Presidency

Period: 1893 to 1897

Political Party: Democratic Party
Significant event: Pullman Railway strikes, Republic of Hawaii is recognized

William McKinley Presidency

Period: 1897 to 1901

Political Party: Republican Party
Significant Event: Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War

Theodore Roosevelt Presidency

Period: 1901 to 1909

Political Party: Republican Party
Significant event: Roosevelt Corollary

William Howard Taft Presidency

Period: 1909 to 1913

Political Party: Republican Party
Significant Event: 16th Amendment ratified

Woodrow Wilson Presidency

Period: 1913 to 1921

Political Party: Democratic Party
Significant Event: World War I

Calvin Coolidge Presidency

Period: 1923 to 1929

Political Party: Republican Party
Significant Event: Dawes Plan

Herbert Hoover Presidency

Period: 1929 to 1933

Political Party: Republican Party
Significant Event: Wall Street stock market Crash/the Great Depression

Franklin Roosevelt Presidency

Period: 1933 to 1945

Political Party: Democratic Party
Significant Event: World War II

Harry Truman Presidency

Period: 1945 to 1953

Political Party: Democratic Party
Significant Event: Korean War

Dwight Eisenhower Presidency

Period: 1953 to 1961

Political Party: Republican
Significant Event: the Civil Rights movement/Little Rock

John F. Kennedy Presidency

Period: 1961 to 1963

Political Party: Democratic Party
Significant Event: the Cold War

Lyndon B. Johnson Presidency

Period: 1963 to 1969

Political Party: Democratic Party
Significant Event: Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, Vietnam War (Tonkin Gulf Resolution)

Richard Nixon Presidency

Period: 1969 to 1974

Political Party: Republican
Significant Event: Watergate Scandal/26th amendment

Gerald Ford Presidency

Period: 1974 to 1977

Political Party: Republican Party
Significant Event: Federal Elections Campaign Act of 1974

Jimmy Carter Presidency

Period: 1977 to 1981

Political Party: Democratic Party
Significant Event: The Camp David Accords

Ronald Reagan

Period: 1981 to 1989

Political Party: Republican Party
Significant Event: Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

George H. W. Bush

Period: 1989 to 1993

Political Party: Republican Party
Significant Event: Gulf War