US Presidents timeline project

William McKinley (1897-1901)

Jan 29, 1897

President: William McKinley,republican
Vice President: Garret Hobart
Major legislation: Dingley tariff law, raises duties by 57%. Congress appropriates $50,000 for relief of americans in cuba.
Major events:Spanish-American War (1898), Annexation of Hawaii (1898), Gold Standard Act (1900)

Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)

Sep 14, 1901

President: Theodore Roosevelt, Republican
Vice president: Charles Fairbanks
Major Legislation: extends chinese exclusion act, prohibiting the immigration of chinese laborers from the philippines. Newland restoration act, authorized federal irrigation projects.
Major Events:Panama Canal Rights Acquired (1904), Won Nobel Peace Prize (1906), San Fransisco Earthquake (1906), Panic of 1907

William Howard Taft (1909-1913)

Mar 4, 1909

President: William Howard Taft, Republican
Vice president: James S Sherman
Major Legislation: Payne Aldrich act which establishes a tariff board and reduces tariff. Postal savings bank act, allowed one bank in each state to give 2% interest on accounts lower then $500.
Major Events:Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act (1909), Sixteenth Amendment Ratified (1913), Dollar Diplomacy

Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)

Mar 4, 1913

President: Woodrow Wilson, Democrat
Vice president: Thomas K Marshall
Major Legislation: Webb Alien Land-holding Law, prohibiting japanese ownership of land in california. Underwood simmions tariff act reducing tax rates.
Major Events: World War I (1914-1918), Lusitania Sank (1915), Federal Reserve Act (1913), Treaty of Versailles (1919)

Warren G Harding (1921-1923)

Mar 4, 1921

President: Warren G Harding, Republican
Vice president: Calvin Coolidge
Major Legislation:Harding signs the Emergency Quota Act, limiting the number of immigrants from any given country to 3 percent of that nationality already in the United States by 1910 (1921).
Major Events: Harding Officially Opposed Entry into the League of Nations (1921), WWI was formally ended by joint resolution (1921), US, France, Great Britain, Japan, and Italy sign an agreement to limit naval armaments (1922).

Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)

Aug 2, 1923

President: Calvin Cooolidge, Republican
Vice president: Charles Dawes
Major Legislation: Revenue Act of 1924, reduced income taxes. Immigrationact of 1924, set strict quotas on how many western and southern Europeans could enter the US and excluded the Japanese all together.
Major Events: Immigration Act of 1924, Revenue Acts of 1924 and 1926, Charles Lindbergh makes his historic transatlantic flight (1927).

Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)

Mar 4, 1929

President: Herbert Hoover, Republican
Vice president: Charles Curtis
Major Legislation: The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the use of the pocket veto by the President for the purpose of blocking legislation(1929). Agricultural Marketing Act to revitalize the increasingly poor market for farm products. (1929)
Major Events:Stock Market Crash (1929), Start of the Great Depression (1929), Lame Duck Amendment Ratified (1933).

Franklin D Roosevelt (1933-1945)

Mar 4, 1933

President: Franklin D Roosevelt, Democrat
Vice President: John Nance Gamer
Major Legislation: In 1942 Roosevelt ordered the internment of 100,000 Japanese American civilians. Declared war on japan and germany after the attacks on pearl harbor. (1941)
Major Events:Twenty-First Amendment- Repeal of Prohibition (1933), Social Security Act (1935), World War II (1939-1945).

Harry S Truman (1945-1953)

Apr 12, 1945

President: Harry S Truman, Democrat
Vice president: Alben Barkley
Major Legislation: Truman signs the Employment Act (1946). Truman creates the Federal Employee Loyalty Program via Executive Order (1947).
Major Events: Atomic Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945), United Nations created (1945), Isreal Created (1948).

Dwight D Eisenhower (1953-1961)

Jan 20, 1953

President: Dwight D Eisenhower, Republican
Vice president: Richard Nixon
Major Legislation: The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare is created by joint congressional action (1953). Refugee Relief Act of 1953, admitting 214,000 more immigrants than permitted under existing immigration quotas (1953).
Major events:End of the Korean War (1953), Interstate Highway System created (1961), Brown vs. Board of Education (1954).

John F Kennedy (1961-1963)

Nov 8, 1961

President: John F Kennedy, Democrat
Vice president: Lydon B Johnson
Major Legislation: Kennedy halts virtually all trade with Cuba (1962). The U.S. Supreme Court rules that segregation in transportation facilities is unconstitutional (1962).
Major Events: Peace Corps Created (1961), Bay of Pigs (1961), Berlin Wall built (1961), Cuban Missile Crisis (1962).

Lyndon B Johnson (1963-1969)

Nov 22, 1963

President: Lyndon B Johnson, Democrat
Vice President: Hubert Humphrey
Major Legislation: The Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, abolishing poll taxes (1964). Johnson signs The Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Major Events:Civil Rights Act (1964), Medicare and Medicaid (1965), Robert Kennedy assassinated (1968).

Richard M Nixon (1969-1974)

Jan 20, 1969

President: Richard M Nixon, Republican
Vice President: Spiro Agnew
Major Legislation: Nixon orders cuts in overseas government personnel by 10 percent (1969). Nixon signs the Selective Service Reform bill, ensuring that draftees are selected by a lottery system (1969).
Major Events:Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon (1969), Environmental Protection Agency created (1970), End of the Vietnam War (1973).

Gerald B Ford (1974-1977)

Aug 9, 1974

President: Gerald B Ford, Republican
Vice President: Nelson Rockefeller
Major Legislation: Ford forms the Economic Policy Board, which will oversee all aspects of economic policy (1974). Ford signs the Privacy Act of 1974, ensuring the right of Americans to individual privacy.
Major Events:Ford grants Nixon an unconditional pardon (1974), Campaign Reform Law (1974), Helsinki Agreement (1975.

Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)

Jan 20, 1977

President: Jimmy Carter, Democrat
Vice President: Walter Mondale
Major Legislation: He created a Department of Energy to regulate existing energy suppliers and fund research on new sources of energy. Carter signed his first energy package into law in 1978.
Major Events:Panama Canal Treaty (1977), US officially recognizes People's Republic of China (1979), Iran Hostage Crisis (1979-81).

Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)

Jan 20, 1981

President: Ronald Reagan, Republican
Vice President: George Bush
Major Legislation: Reagan signs the tax cut into law (1981). Reagan signs into law a five cents per gallon gasoline tax increase (1983).
Major Events:Attempted assassination (1981), Granada invasion (1983), Iran-Contra Scandal (1985-89).

George Bush (1989-1993)

Jan 31, 1989

President: George Bush, Republican
Vice President: Dan Quayle
Major Legislation:
Major Events:Invasion of Panama (1989), Savings and Loan bail out (1989)

Bill Clinton (1993-2001)

Jan 20, 1993

President: Bill Clinton, Democrat
Vice President: Al Gore
Major Legislation:
Major Events:World Trade Center Terrorist Bombing (1993), Impeachment (1999)

George W Bush (2001-2009)

Jan 20, 2001

President: George W Bush, Republican
Vice President: Dick Cheney
Major Legislation: parital birth abortion act (2003). The no child left behind act (2002)
Major Events:Terrorist Attack on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in New York City (September 11, 2001), War in Afghanistan (2001)

Barack Obama (2009-Present)

Jan 20, 2009

President: Barack Obama, Democrat
Vice President: Joe Biden
Major Legislation: American recovery and reinvestment act (2009). Obama lifts restrictions of federal funding for embryonic stem cells research (2009).
Major Events:Colorado Shooting(2012), Sandy Hook elementary shooting (2012)