U.S. Presidents and Term in Office

Vocabulary-style flashcards covering each president listed in the notes, including term of office and party; notable events (died in office, assassinated, resigned) noted where indicated.

George Washington

First U.S. President; served 1789-1797.

John Adams

Second U.S. President; served 1797-1801.

Thomas Jefferson

Third U.S. President; served 1801-1809.

James Madison

Fourth U.S. President; served 1809-1817.

James Monroe

Fifth U.S. President; served 1817-1825.

John Quincy Adams

Sixth U.S. President; served 1825-1829.

Andrew Jackson

Seventh U.S. President; served 1829-1837.

Martin Van Buren

Eighth U.S. President; served 1837-1841.

William Henry Harrison

Ninth U.S. President; served 1841; died in office.

John Tyler

Tenth U.S. President; served 1841-1845.

James Knox Polk

Eleventh U.S. President; served 1845-1849.

Zachary Taylor

Twelfth U.S. President; served 1849-1850; died in office.

Millard Fillmore

Thirteenth U.S. President; served 1850-1853.

Franklin Pierce

Fourteenth U.S. President; served 1853-1857.

James Buchanan

Fifteenth U.S. President; served 1857-1861.

Abraham Lincoln

Sixteenth U.S. President; served 1861-1865; assassinated.

Andrew Johnson

Seventeenth U.S. President; served 1865-1869.

Ulysses Simpson Grant

Eighteenth U.S. President; served 1869-1877.

Rutherford Birchard Hayes

Nineteenth U.S. President; served 1877-1881.

James Abram Garfield

Twentieth U.S. President; served 1881; assassinated.

Chester Alan Arthur

Twenty-first U.S. President; served 1881-1885.

Grover Cleveland (22nd term)

Twenty-second U.S. President; served 1885-1889.

Benjamin Harrison

Twenty-third U.S. President; served 1889-1893.

Grover Cleveland (24th term)

Twenty-fourth U.S. President; served 1893-1897.

William McKinley

Twenty-fifth U.S. President; served 1897-1901; assassinated.

Theodore Roosevelt

Twenty-sixth U.S. President; served 1901-1909.

William Howard Taft

Twenty-seventh U.S. President; served 1909-1913.

Woodrow Wilson

Twenty-eighth U.S. President; served 1913-1921.

Warren Gamaliel Harding

Twenty-ninth U.S. President; served 1921-1923; died in office.

Calvin Coolidge

Thirtieth U.S. President; served 1923-1929.

Herbert Clark Hoover

Thirty-first U.S. President; served 1929-1933.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Thirty-second U.S. President; served 1933-1945; died in office.

Harry S. Truman

Thirty-third U.S. President; served 1945-1953.

Dwight David Eisenhower

Thirty-fourth U.S. President; served 1953-1961.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Thirty-fifth U.S. President; served 1961-1963; assassinated.

Lyndon Baines Johnson

Thirty-sixth U.S. President; served 1963-1969.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Thirty-seventh U.S. President; served 1969-1974; resigned from office.

Gerald Rudolph Ford

Thirty-eighth U.S. President; served 1974-1977.

James "Jimmy" Earl Carter Jr.

Thirty-ninth U.S. President; served 1977-1981.

Ronald Wilson Reagan

Fortieth U.S. President; served 1981-1989.

George Herbert Walker Bush

Forty-first U.S. President; served 1989-1993.

William Jefferson Clinton

Forty-second U.S. President; served 1993-2001.

George Walker Bush

Forty-third U.S. President; served 2001-2009.

Barack Hussein Obama

Forty-fourth U.S. President; served 2009-2017.

Donald John Trump

Forty-fifth U.S. President; served 2017-2021.

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.

Forty-sixth U.S. President; served 2021-2025.

Donald John Trump (2nd term)

Forty-seventh U.S. President; 2025 to Present.