US Presidents 1-36

George Washington

1st president; commander-in-chief during Revolutionary War; father of our country

John Adams

2nd president; first to live in the White House

Thomas Jefferson

3rd president; author of the Declaration of Independence, purchased Louisiana Territory

James Madison

4th president; father of the Constitution, shortest president at 5’4

James Monroe

5th president; first to have an outdoor inauguration in Washington, D.C., held on the site of the current Supreme Court building

John Quincy Adams

6th president; first to be the son of a previous president (John Adams)

Andrew Jackson

7th president; paid off national debt, first to survive an assassination attempt

Martin van Buren

8th president; first to be born on US soil, owned 2 tiger cubs as pets (gifts from the Sultan of Oman)

William Henry Harrison

9th president; longest inaugural speech in history (105 minutes), without a hat or overcoat in March 1841, developed pneumonia after and died in the White House a month later, became the first to die in office

John Tyler

10th president; first to serve without being elected to office

James Polk

11th president; first to retire after one term, didn’t seek re-election

Zachary Taylor

12th president; military hero of the Mexican-American War, died of Cholera in office

Millard Fillmore

13th president; sworn in after Taylor dies, did not have a vice president, lost horribly in his only presidential election

Franklin Pierce

14th president; first to cancel inaugural ball due to the death of his son

James Buchanan

15th president; only bachelor to be elected president, niece performed as White House hostess while in office

Abraham Lincoln

16th president; tallest (6’4), the Emancipation Proclamation

Andrew Johnson

17th president; first to be impeached, buried with his head resting on a copy of the Constitution

Ulysses S. Grant

18th president; Hiram Ulysses Grant, changed his name because he did not like his monogram (HUG)

Rutherford B. Hayes

19th president; the first to have a telephone in the White House

James A. Garfield

20th president; the first presidential candidate to spend more than 1 million dollars on his campaign

Chester A. Arthur

21st president, first to take presidential oath of office in his own home, located in NYC

Grover Cleveland

22nd president; first to have ever served non-consecutive terms

Benjamin Harrison

23rd president; first to have electricity in the White House

Grover Cleveland

24th president

William McKinley

25th president; first to ride in an automobile, also on the 500 dollar bill

Theodore Roosevelt

26th president; the youngest president, taking office at the age of 42

William Howard Taft

27th president; the heaviest president, started the tradition of the president throwing out the first pitch of the baseball season

Woodrow Wilson

28th president; officially established the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day

Warren G. Harding

29th president; known as one of the worst presidents due to corruption and scandal

Calvin Coolidge

30th president; first and only to be sworn in by a former president (Chief Justice William Howard Taft)

Herbert Hoover

31st president; first to be born west of the Mississippi River

Franklin D. Roosevelt

32nd president; first and only to serve 4 terms, most of the public was unaware he was paralyzed from the waist down (Polio)

Harry S. Truman

33rd president; first and only to use atomic bombs in warfare

Dwight D. Eisenhower

34th president; Supreme commander of the Allied forces during World War II

John F. Kennedy

35th president; assassinated in a presidential motorcade (in a convertible) halfway through his presidency, also was the first Catholic president

Lyndon B. Johnson

36th president; signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, declared war on property by creating Medicare, Medicaid, and making Food Stamps permanent