President of the United States

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The presidential seal was last changed in 1959 by adding the 50th star for Hawaii.

The President of the United States of America is the head of state, and head of government of the United States. The office of President was created in the United States Constitution in 1788. The first President took office in 1789. The President serves as chief executive and is in charge of the executive branch of the United States government. The United States Constitution makes the President the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. It also lists powers given to the President. These powers include :

Making a law from the bills passed by the United States Congress
Creating a Cabinet of advisors
Giving pardons or reprieves

With the agreement of the United States Senate he or she can:

Make treaties
Choose ambassadors to foreign countries
Select Judges, and Justices of the Supreme Court

Presidents may be replaced by the Acting President, usually his or her Vice President.

[change] List of Presidents of the United States

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party	Vice President(s)
1	George Washington	1789	1797	No party	John Adams
2	John Adams	1797	1801	Federalist	Thomas Jefferson
3	Thomas Jefferson	1801	1809	Democratic-Republican	Aaron Burr and George Clinton^{[n 1]}
4	James Madison	1809	1817	Democratic-Republican	Elbridge Gerry^{[n 1]}
5	James Monroe	1817	1825	Democratic-Republican	Daniel D. Tompkins
6	John Quincy Adams	1825	1829	Democratic-Republican	John C. Calhoun
7	Andrew Jackson	1829	1837	Democratic	John C. Calhoun^{[n 2]} and Martin Van Buren
8	Martin Van Buren	1837	1841	Democratic	Richard Mentor Johnson
9	William Henry Harrison^{[n 3]}	1841	1841	Whig	John Tyler
10	John Tyler	1841	1845	Whig^{[n 4]}	none
11	James Knox Polk	1845	1849	Democratic	George M. Dallas
12	Zachary Taylor^{[n 3]}	1849^{[n 5]}	1850	Whig	Millard Fillmore
13	Millard Fillmore	1850	1853	Whig	none
14	Franklin Pierce	1853	1857	Democratic	William R. King^{[n 6]}
15	James Buchanan	1857	1861	Democratic	John C. Breckinridge
16	Abraham Lincoln^{[n 7]}	1861	1865	Republican	Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson
17	Andrew Johnson	1865	1869	Democratic^{[n 8]}	none
18	Ulysses Simpson Grant	1869	1877	Republican	Schuyler Colfax and Henry Wilson^{[n 6]}
19	Rutherford Birchard Hayes	1877	1881	Republican	William A. Wheeler
20	James Abram Garfield^{[n 7]}	1881	1881	Republican	Chester A. Arthur
21	Chester Alan Arthur	1881	1885	Republican	none
22	Stephen Grover Cleveland	1885	1889	Democratic	Thomas A. Hendricks^{[n 6]}
23	Benjamin Harrison	1889	1893	Republican	Levi P. Morton
24	Stephen Grover Cleveland	1893	1897	Democratic	Adlai E. Stevenson
25	William McKinley^{[n 7]}	1897	1901	Republican	Garret A. Hobart^{[n 6]} then Theodore Roosevelt
26	Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.	1901	1909	Republican	None then Charles W. Fairbanks
27	William Howard Taft	1909	1913	Republican	James S. Sherman^{[n 6]}
28	Thomas Woodrow Wilson	1913	1921	Democratic	Thomas R. Marshall
29	Warren Gamaliel Harding^{[n 3]}	1921	1923	Republican	Calvin Coolidge
30	John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.	1923	1929	Republican	None then Charles G. Dawes
31	Herbert Clark Hoover	1929	1933	Republican	Charles Curtis
32	Franklin Delano Roosevelt^{[n 3]}	1933	1945	Democratic	John Nance Garner and Henry A. Wallace and Harry S. Truman
33	Harry S. Truman	1945	1953	Democratic	None then Alben W. Barkley
34	Dwight David Eisenhower	1953	1961	Republican	Richard Nixon
35	John Fitzgerald Kennedy^{[n 7]}	1961	1963	Democratic	Lyndon B. Johnson
36	Lyndon Baines Johnson	1963	1969	Democratic	None then Hubert H. Humphrey
37	Richard Milhous Nixon^{[n 9]}	1969	1974	Republican	Spiro Agnew^{[n 2]} then None then Gerald Ford
38	Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr.	1974	1977	Republican	None then Nelson Rockefeller
39	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	1977	1981	Democratic	Walter F. Mondale
40	Ronald Wilson Reagan	1981	1989	Republican	George H. W. Bush
41	George Herbert Walker Bush	1989	1993	Republican	James Danforth Quayle III
42	William "Bill" Jefferson Clinton	1993	2001	Democratic	Albert A. Gore, Jr.
43	George Walker Bush	2001	2009	Republican	Richard B. Cheney
44	Barack Hussein Obama II	2009	Incumbent	Democratic	Joseph R. Biden

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Died while Vice President.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Resigned as Vice President.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 Died of natural causes.
↑ Democrat on Whig ticket.
↑ Was not sworn into office on the day he was expected to be.
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 ^6.3 ^6.4 Died while Vice President, not replaced.
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 ^7.2 ^7.3 Assassinated.
↑ Democrat who ran on Union ticket with Republican Lincoln.
↑ Resigned.

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[a-0] 1.0 ^1.1 Died while Vice President.

[b-1] 2.0 ^2.1 Resigned as Vice President.

[c-2] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 Died of natural causes.

[d-3] Democrat on Whig ticket.

[i-4] Was not sworn into office on the day he was expected to be.

[e-5] 6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 ^6.3 ^6.4 Died while Vice President, not replaced.

[f-6] 7.0 ^7.1 ^7.2 ^7.3 Assassinated.

[g-7] Democrat who ran on Union ticket with Republican Lincoln.

[h-8] Resigned.

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