Knowing Your Presidents

George Washington (1789-1797)

Apr 30, 1789

George Washington was the first president of the united states. On February 22, 1732 George Washington was born. George Washington was the only of all Founding Fathers to free his slaves.

Presidents

Period: Apr 30, 1789 to Jan 20, 2009

John Adams (1797-1801)

Mar 4, 1797

John Adams was the second president. He was one of the most influential presidents. He was involved with the drafting of the Constitution and played a very important role in the formation of the United States

Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)

Mar 4, 1801

Thomas Jefferson was the third president. He was
was one of the most intriguing figures of his era. Writer of the Declaration of Independence, he played a crucial role in early American history. As president, he was involved with the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

James Madison (1809-1817)

Mar 4, 1809

James Madison was the forth president. Madison was one of the primary creators of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

James Monroe (1817-1825)

Mar 4, 1817

James Monroe was the fifth president. He wrote the Monroe doctrine. He was the last founding father of America.

John Quincy Adams (1825-1829)

Mar 4, 1825

John Quincy Adams was the sixth president. He was born in Massachusetts before the US became a country. Adams wife raised silkworms. She had the silk used in her gowns.

Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)

Mar 4, 1829

Andrew Jackson was the seventh president. He also believed that the earth was flat.

Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)

Mar 4, 1837

Martin Van Buren was the eighth president. He was the first president who was born an American citizen.

William Henry Harrison (1841)

Mar 4, 1841

William Henry Harrison was the ninth president. William Henry Harrison served the shortest time of any American President—only thirty-two days. He also was the first President from the Whig Party.

John Tyler (1841-1845)

Apr 4, 1841

John Tyler was the tenth president. He assumed office after the death of President William Henry Harrison.

James K. Polk (1845-1849)

Mar 4, 1845

James K. Polk was the eleventh president. Polk served in the Tennessee legislature and the U.S. Congress.

Zachary Taylor (1849-1850)

Mar 4, 1849

Zachary Taylor was the twelth president

Millard Fillmore (1850-1853)

Jul 9, 1850

Millard Fillmore was th thirteenth president

Franklin Pierce (1853-1857)

Mar 4, 1853

Franklin Pierce was the fourteenth president

James Buchanan (1857-1861)

Mar 4, 1857

James Buchanan was the fifthteenth president

Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)

Mar 4, 1861

Abraham Lincoln was the sixtheenth president. He was the first president to be assassinated. Lincoln, one week before his death, had a dream of someone crying in the White House, when he found the room; he looked in and asked who had passed away. The man in the room said the President. When he looked in the coffin it was his own face he saw.

Andrew Johnson (1865-1869)

Apr 15, 1865

Andrew Johnson was the seventeenth president

Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)

Mar 4, 1869

Ulysses S. Grant was the eighteenth president

Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881)

Mar 4, 1877

Rutherford B. Hayes was the nineteenth president

James A. Garfield (1881)

Mar 4, 1881

James A. Garfield was the the twenith president

Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885)

Sep 19, 1881

Chester A. Arthur was the twenty-first president

Grover Cleveland (1885-1889)

Mar 4, 1885

Grover Cleveland was the twenty-second president

Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893)

Mar 4, 1889

Benjamin Harrison was the twenty-third president

Grover Cleveland (1893-1897)

Mar 4, 1893

Grover Cleveland was the twenty-fourth president

William McKinley (1897-1901)

Mar 4, 1897

William McKinley was the twenty-fifth president

Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)

Sep 14, 1901

Theodore Roosevelt was the twenty-sixth president

William Howard Taft (1909-1913)

Mar 4, 1909

William Howard Taft was the twenty-seventh president

Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)

Mar 4, 1913

Woodrow Wilson was the twenty-eighth president

Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)

Mar 4, 1921

Warren G. Harding was the twenty-ninth president

Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)

Aug 2, 1923

Calvin Coolidge was the thirtyth president

Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)

Mar 4, 1929

Herbert Hoover was the thirty-first president

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)

Mar 4, 1933

Franklin D. Roosevelt was the thirty-second president

Harry S Truman (1945-1953)

Apr 12, 1945

Harry S Truman was the thirty-third president

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)

Jan 20, 1953

Dwight D. Eisenhower was the thirty-fourth president

John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)

Jan 20, 1961

John F. Kennedy was the thirty-fifth president

Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969)

Nov 22, 1963

Lyndon B. Johnson was the thirty-sixth president

Richard Nixon (1969-1974)

Jan 20, 1969

Richard Nixon was the thirty-seventh president

Gerald Ford (1974-1977)

Aug 9, 1974

Gerald Ford was the thirty-eighth president

Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)

Jan 20, 1977

Jimmy Carter was the thirty-ninth president

Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)

Jan 20, 1981

Ronald Reagan was the fourtieth president

George H. W. Bush (1989-1993)

Jan 20, 1989

George H. W. Bush was the fourty-first president

Bill Clinton (1993-2001)

Jan 20, 1993

Bill Clinton was the fourty-second president. Bill was the first in line to shake President John F. Kennedy's hand. It was then that he knew he wanted a career in public service and that he wanted to eventually run for an office.

George W. Bush (2001-2009)

Jan 20, 2001

George W. Bush was the fourty-third president. •Bush was nearly assassinated in 2005, while visiting the Soviet State of Georgia. A man named Vladimir Arutyunian threw a live grenade at him; fortunately it failed to explode.

Barack Obama (2009-now)

Jan 20, 2009

Barack Obama is the fourty-fourth president. He is bi-racial.