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8293557764George Washington1789-1797 Federalist Whiskey Rebellion; Judiciary Act; Farewell Address0
8293557765John Adams1797-1801 Federalist XYZ Affair; Alien and Sedition Acts1
8293557766Thomas Jefferson1801-1809 Democratic-Republican Marbury v. Madison; Louisiana Purchase; Embargo of 18072
8293557767James Madison1809-1817 Democratic-Republican War of 1812; First Protective Tariff3
8293557768James Monroe1817-1825 Democratic-Republican Missouri Compromise of 1820; Monroe Doctrine4
8293557769John Quincy Adams1825-1829 Democratic-Republican "Corrupt Bargain"; "Tariff of Abominations"5
8293557770Andrew Jackson1829-1837 Democrat Nullification Crisis; Bank War; Indian Removal Act6
8293557771Martin Van Buren1837-1841 Democrat Trail of Tears; Specie Circular; Panic of 18377
8293557772William Henry Harrison1841 Whig "Tippecanoe and Tyler too!"; First Whig President8
8293557773John Tyler1841-1845 Whig "His Accidency"; Webster-Ashburton Treaty9
8293557774James Polk1845-1849 Democrat Texas annexation; Mexican War10
8293557775Zachary Taylor1849-1850 Whig Mexican War hero and staunch Unionist11
8293557776Millard Fillmore1850-1853 Whig Compromise of 185012
8293557777Franklin Pierce1853-1857 Democrat Kansas-Nebraska Act; Gadsden Purchase13
8293557778James Buchanan1857-1861 Democrat Dred Scott decision; Harpers Ferry raid14
8293557779Abraham Lincoln1861-1865 Republican Secession and Civil War; Emancipation Proclamation15
8293557780Andrew Johnson1865-1869 Democrat 13th and 14th amendments; Radical Reconstruction; Impeachment16
8293557781Ulysses Grant1869-1877 Republican 15th amendment; Panic of 187317
8293557782Rutherford Hayes1877-1881 Republican Compromise of 1877; labor unions and strikes18
8293557783James Garfield1881, Republican Brief resurgence of presidential authority; Increase in American naval power; Purge corruption in the Post Office19
8293557784Chester Arthur1881-1885 Republican Standard Oil trust created Edison lights up New York City20
8293557785Grover Cleveland1885-1889 (1st term), 1893-1897 (2nd term) Democrat Interstate Commerce Act; Dawes Act; Panic of 1893; Pullman Strike21
8293557786Benjamin Harrison1889-1893 Republican Sherman Anti-Trust Act; Closure of the frontier22
8293557787William McKinley1897-1901 Republican Spanish-American War; Open Door policy23
8293557788Theodore Roosevelt1901-1909 Republican Progressivism; Square Deal; Big Stick Diplomacy24
8293557789William Howard Taft1909-1913 Republican Dollar diplomacy NAACP founded25
8293557790Woodrow Wilson1913-1921 Democrat WWI; League of Nations; 18th and 19th amendments; Segregation of federal offices; First Red Scare26
8293557791Warren Harding1921-1923 Republican "Return to normalcy", return to isolationism; Tea Pot Dome scandal; Prohibition27
8293557792Calvin Coolidge1923-1929 Republican Small-government (laissez-faire) conservative28
8293557793Herbert Hoover1929-1933 Republican "American individualism"; Stock Market Crash; Dust Bowl; Hawley-Smoot Tariff29
8293557794Franklin Delano Roosevelt1933-1945 Democrat New Deal; WWII; Japanese Internment; "Fireside Chats"30
8293557795Harry Truman1945-1953 Democrat A-bomb; Marshall Plan; Korean War; United Nations31
8293557796Dwight Eisenhower1953-1961 Republican Brown v. Board of Education; Second Red Scare; Highway Act and suburbanization ("white flight"); Farewell Address warning of the military industrial complex32
8293557797John Kennedy1961-1963 Democrat Camelot; Bay of Pigs; Cuban Missile Crisis; Space program; Peace Corps33
8293557798Lyndon Johnson1963-1969 Democrat Civil and Voting Rights acts; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; Great Society34
8293557799Richard Nixon1969-1974 Republican Environmental Protection Act; China visit; Moon Landing; Watergate35
8293557800Gerald Ford1974-1977 Republican Pardoning of Nixon; OPEC crisis36
8293557801Jimmy Carter1977-1981 Democrat stagflation / energy crisis; Iran hostage crisis; Camp David Accords37
8293557802Ronald Reagan1981-1989 Republican Conservative revolution; Iran-Contra scandal38
8293557803George H. W. Bush1989-1993 Republican Persian Gulf War39
8293557804Bill Clinton1993-2001 Democrat NAFTA; Lewinsky scandal and impreachment40
8293557805George W. Bush2001-2008 Republican War on terrorism; Patriot Act; Tax cuts; "No Child Left Behind"41
8293557806Barack Obama2008-2017 Democrat Affordable Care Act42
8293557807Donald Trump2017-? Republican "Make America Great Again"43

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