President of the United States

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President of the
United States of America
Flag of the President of the United States of America.svg
Presidential Standard
President Barack Obama.jpg
Incumbent
Barack Obama
since January 20, 2009
Style Mr. President
(Informal)[1][2]
The Honorable
(Formal)[3]
His Excellency[4][5][6]
(diplomatic, outside the U.S.)
Residence White House
Washington, D.C.
Term length Four years
renewable once
Inaugural holder George Washington
April 30, 1789
Formation United States Constitution
March 4, 1789
Website The White House
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 :

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

If the president dies/retires between elections or is otherwise removed from office, the Acting President will become president, who is usually the Vice President.

List of Presidents of the United States [change]

# 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

Notes [change]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Died while Vice President.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Resigned as Vice President.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Died of natural causes.
  4. ↑ Democrat on Whig ticket.
  5. ↑ Was not sworn into office on the day he was expected to be.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Died while Vice President, not replaced.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Assassinated.
  8. ↑ Democrat who ran on Union ticket with Republican Lincoln.
  9. ↑ Resigned.

Sources [change]

  1. ↑ "How To Address The President; He Is Not Your Excellency Or Your Honor, But Mr. President". The New York Times. August 2, 1891. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D06E3D9143AE533A25751C0A96E9C94609ED7CF.
  2. ↑ "USGS Correspondence Handbook - Chapter 4". Usgs.gov. 2007-07-18. http://www.usgs.gov/usgs-manual/handbook/hb/431-2-h/chap4.html. Retrieved 2012-11-15.
  3. ↑ "Models of Address and Salutation". Ita.doc.gov. http://www.ita.doc.gov/ita_sec/Address%20and%20Salutation.htm. Retrieved September 4, 2010.
  4. ↑ HEADS OF STATE, HEADS OF GOVERNMENT, MINISTERS FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, Protocol and Liaison Service, United Nations. Retrieved on November 1, 2012.
  5. ↑ The White House Office of the Press Secretary (September 1, 2010). "Remarks by President Obama, President Mubarak, His Majesty King Abdullah, Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Abbas Before Working Dinner". WhiteHouse.gov. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/09/01/remarks-president-obama-president-mubarak-his-majesty-king-abdullah-prim. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Exchange of Letters". Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations. September 1978. http://www.un.int/wcm/content/site/palestine/cache/offonce/pid/12020. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
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