Presidents of the United States of America

#	Name	Party	Served	Full	Partial	States	Reason for leaving
1	George Washington	F	1789-1797	2*	-	11*/15	Did not seek reelection.
2	John Adams	F	1797-1801	1	-	16	Defeated.
3	Thomas Jefferson	DR	1801-1809	2	-	16/17	Did not seek reelection.
4	James Madison (Jr.)	DR	1809-1817	2	-	17/18	Did not seek reelection.
5	James Monroe	DR	1817-1825	2	-	19/24	Did not seek reelection.
6	John Quincy Adams	DR	1825-1829	1	-	24	Defeated.
7	Andrew Jackson	D	1829-1837	2	-	24	Did not seek reelection.
8	Martin Van Buren	D	1837-1841	1	-	26	Defeated.
9	William Henry Harrision	W	1841	0	Started	26	Died of pneumonia.
10	John Tyler (Jr.)	W	1841-1845	0	Finished	26	Did not seek reelection.
11	James Knox Polk	D	1845-1849	1	-	26	Did not seek reelection.
12	Zachary Taylor	W	1849-1850	0	Started	30	Died of cholera morbus.
13	Millard Fillmore	W	1850-1853	0	Finished	30	Lost party nomination. Defeated in 1856.
14	Franklin Pierce	D	1853-1857	1	-	31	Lost party nomination.
15	James Buchanan (Jr.)	D	1857-1861	1	-	31	Did not seek reelection.
16	Abraham Lincoln	R	1861-1865	1	Started	33/36*	Assassinated.
17	Andrew Johnson	D*	1865-1869	0	Finished	36*	Lost party nomination.
18	Ulysses Simpson Grant [Hiram Ulysses Grant]	R	1869-1877	2	-	37*	Did not seek reelection. Lost party nomination in 1880.
19	Rutherford Birchard Hayes	R	1877-1881	1	-	38	Did not seek reelection.
20	James Abram Garfield	R	1881	0	Started	38	Assassinated.
21	Chester Alan Arthur	R	1881-1885	0	Finished	38	Lost party nomination.
22*	Grover Cleveland [Stephen Grover Cleveland]	D	1885-1889	1	-	38	Defeated. Elected again in 1892 (see below).
23	Benjamin Harrision	R	1889-1893	1	-	38	Defeated.
24*	Grover Cleveland [Stephen Grover Cleveland]	D	1893-1897	1	-	44	Did not seek reelection.
25	William McKinley (Jr.)	R	1897-1901	1	Started	45	Assassinated.
26	Theodore Roosevelt (Jr.)	R	1901-1909	1	Finished	45	Did not seek reelection. Defeated in 1912.
27	William Howard Taft	R	1909-1913	1	-	46	Defeated.
28	Woodrow Wilson [Thomas Woodrow Wilson]	D	1913-1921	2	-	48	Did not seek reelection.
29	Warren Gamaliel Harding	R	1921-1923	0	Started	48	Died of stroke.
30	Calvin Coolidge [John Calvin Coolidge]	R	1923-1929	1	Finished	48	Did not seek reelection.
31	Herbert Clark Hoover	R	1929-1933	1	-	48	Defeated.
32	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	D	1933-1945	3*	Started	48	Died of cerebral hemorrhage.
33	Harry S Truman	D	1945-1953	1	Finished	48	Did not seek reelection.
34	Dwight David Eisenhower [David Dwight Eisenhower]	R	1953-1961	2	-	48	Could not run again due to 22nd Amendment.
35	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	D	1961-1963	0	Started	50	Assassinated.
36	Lyndon Baines Johnson	D	1963-1969	1	Finished	50+DC	Did not seek reelection.
37	Richard Milhous Nixon	R	1969-1974	1	Started	50+DC	Resigned.
38	Gerald Rudolph Ford (Jr.) [Leslie Lynch King, Jr.]	R	1974-1977	0	Finished	50+DC	Defeated.
39	James Earl Carter (Jr.)	D	1977-1981	1	-	50+DC	Defeated.
40	Ronald Wilson Reagan	R	1981-1989	2	-	50+DC	Could not run again due to 22nd Amendment.
41	George Herbert Walker Bush	R	1989-1993	1	-	50+DC	Defeated.
42	William Jefferson Clinton [William Jefferson Blythe IV]	D	1993-2001	2	-	50+DC	Could not run again due to 22nd Amendment.
43	George Walker Bush	R	2001-	0	In office	50+DC	n/a

Notes:

Names given in [brackets] indicate original name, when different from that used as president.
Presidents named after their fathers have (Jr.) listed after their names.
States column indicates the number of states in the union when the president was elected, or if unelected, when the president assumed office. If the number of states differed for different elections, the numbers are shown for each election. Voters in the District of Columbia (DC) were given the right to vote for president by the 23rd Amendment. The District of Columbia is considered a state for the purposes of selecting a president, but for all other purposes, it is not a state.
George Washington's first term was not four full years. Franklin Roosevelt's first term was shortened by the 20th Amendment.
Grover Cleveland was elected to non-consecutive terms, and was declared to be both the 22nd and 24th president.
Only 10 states sent electors to the first election. The 11 confederate states did not participate in the 1864 election. Those 11 states had not yet been readmitted when Andrew Johnson took office. Three former confederate states had not yet been readmitted by 1868, and did not participate in that election.
Party column indicates the political party of the president (F=Federalist, DR=Democratic Republican, D=Democrat, W=Whig, R=Republican). Andrew Johnson was a Democrat nominated by the Republican party for Vice President for the 1864 election.
The latest popular election for president was held on November 7, 2000, and after a five week period of counting and recounting ballots, and contesting the results, George W. Bush was declared the winner. Voters from each state don't vote directly for president, but instead nominate electors to the Electoral College based on that state's representation in Congress. This serves to prevent candidates from winning with a regional campaign, and therefore protects the smaller states by forcing the candidates to campaign nationwide. This is in fact what occurred in this election, as Bush's opponent, Al Gore, won a narrow plurality of the popular vote, but his support was concentrated on the East and West coasts and he largely failed to win the states in the central and southern portions of the country. The Electoral College vote occurred on December 18, 2000, and was officially counted in a joint session of Congress on January 6, 2001. For more information, see Article II Section 1 of the Constitution, and the 12th and 20th Amendments.
The two primary contenders for the 2000 presidential election were Albert Gore Jr, the sitting vice president, and George Walker Bush, son of the 41st president. Gore was vying to become the fifth sitting vice president to be elected president (and only the third under current electoral procedures), and Bush became the second president's son to be elected in his own right. Interestingly, the only sitting vice president in the 20th century to be elected president was Bush's father, George Herbert Walker Bush.

Last updated March 25, 2002.