us prezs 11-28

James K. Polk

(1845-1849) Democrat; won Mexican-American War

Zachary Taylor

(1849-1850) Whig; Clayton-Bulwer treaty

Millard Fillmore

(1850-1853) Whig; Compromise of 1850

Franklin Pierce

(1853-1857) Democrat; Gadsden Purchase

James Buchanan

(1857-1861) Democrat; did little to stop secession of Southern states.

Abraham Lincoln

(1861-1865) Republican; issued the Emancipation Proclamation

Andrew Johnson

(1865-1869) Democrat; failure of swing around the circle tour

Ulysses S. Grant

(1869-1877) Republican; passed the 15th Amendment

Rutherford B. Hayes

(1877-1881) Republican; ended Reconstruction

James A. Garfield

(1881) Republican; assassinated before significant changes

Chester A. Arthur

(1881-1885) Republican; Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act

Grover Cleveland

(1885-1889) Democrat; Interstate Commerce Act (1887)

Benjamin Harrison

(1889-1893) Republican; Sherman Antitrust Act

Grover Cleveland

(1893-1897) Democrat; federal injunction to end the Pullman Strike.

William McKinley

(1897-1901) Republican; U.S. to victory in Spanish-American War

Theodore Roosevelt

(1901-1909) Republican; Square Deal

William Howard Taft

(1909-1913) Republican; Children’s Bureau

Woodrow Wilson

(1913-1921) Democrat; failed to join League of Nations.