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13779675912George Washington1789-1797 Federalist, Whiskey Rebellion; Judiciary Act; Farewell Address0
13779675913John Adams1797-1801 Federalist, XYZ Affair; Alien and Sedition Acts1
13779675914Thomas Jefferson1801-1809 Democratic-Republican, Marbury v. Madison; Louisiana Purchase; Embargo of 18072
13779675915James Madison1809-1817 Democratic-Republican,War of 1812; First Protective Tariff3
13779675916James Monroe1817-1825 Democratic-Republican,Missouri Compromise of 1820; Monroe Doctrine4
13779675917John Quincy Adams1825-1829 Democratic-Republican,"Corrupt Bargain"; "later fought gag rule"5
13779675918Andrew Jackson1829-1837 Democrat,Nullification Crisis; Bank War; Indian Removal Act, King Andrew I6
13779675919Martin Van Buren1837-1841 Democrat,Jackson's coat tails, Specie Circular; Panic of 18377
13779675920William Henry Harrison1841 Whig,"Tippecanoe and Tyler too!"; First Whig President, Log Cabins and Hard Cider, shortest term8
13779675921John Tyler1841-1845 Whig,"His Accidency"; Webster-Ashburton Treaty, Annexed Texas9
13779675922James Polk1845-1849 Democrat,54-40 or Fight; Mexican War, North Carolinian10
13779675923Zachary Taylor1849-1850 Whig,Mexican War hero and staunch Unionist, dies before vetoing Compromise of 185011
13779675924Millard Fillmore1850-1853 Whig,Compromise of 185012
13779675925Franklin Pierce1853-1857 Democrat,Kansas-Nebraska Act; Gadsden Purchase13
13779675926James Buchanan1857-1861 Democrat,Dred Scott decision; Harpers Ferry raid, inaction of Fort Sumter14
13779675927Abraham Lincoln1861-1865 Republican,Secession and Civil War; Emancipation Proclamation15
13779675928Andrew Johnson1865-1869 Democrat,13th and 14th amendments; Radical Reconstruction; Impeachment16
13779675929Ulysses Grant1869-1877 Republican,15th amendment; Panic of 1873, Scandals including Credit Mobilier and Whiskey Ring17
13779675930Rutherford Hayes1877-1881 Republican,Compromise of 1877; labor unions and strikes18
13779675931James Garfield1881, Republican,Killed over patronage19
13779675932Chester Arthur1881-1885 Republican, signs Pendleton Act into law,Standard Oil trust created Edison lights up New York City20
13779675933Grover Cleveland1885-1889 (1st term), 1893-1897 (2nd term) Democrat,Interstate Commerce Act; Dawes Act; Panic of 1893; Pullman Strike21
13779675934Benjamin Harrison1889-1893 Republican,Sherman Anti-Trust Act; Closure of the frontier22
13779675935William McKinley1897-1901 Republican,Spanish-American War; Open Door policy, gold Standard23
13779675936Theodore Roosevelt1901-1909 Republican,Progressivism; Square Deal; Big Stick Diplomacy24
13779675937William Howard Taft1909-1913 Republican,Dollar diplomacy,TR's handpicked successor,NAACP founded25
13779675938Woodrow Wilson1913-1921 Democrat,WWI; League of Nations; 18th and 19th amendments; Segregation of federal offices; First Red Scare26
13779675939Warren Harding1921-1923 Republican,"Return to normalcy", return to isolationism; Tea Pot Dome scandal; Prohibition27
13779675940Calvin Coolidge1923-1929 Republican,Small-government (laissez-faire) conservative, "Do nothing Cal"28
13779675941Herbert Hoover1929-1933 Republican,"Rugged individualism"; Stock Market Crash; Dust Bowl; Hawley-Smoot Tariff29
13779675942Franklin Delano Roosevelt1933-1945 Democrat,New Deal; WWII; Japanese Internment; "Fireside Chats"30
13779675943Harry Truman1945-1953 Democrat,A-bomb; Marshall Plan; Korean War; United Nations31
13779675944Dwight 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
13779675945John Kennedy1961-1963 Democrat,Camelot; Bay of Pigs; Cuban Missile Crisis; Space program; Peace Corps33
13779675946Lyndon Johnson1963-1969 Democrat,Civil and Voting Rights acts; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; Great Society34
13779675947Richard Nixon1969-1974 Republican,Environmental Protection Act; Detente; Watergate35
13779675948Gerald Ford1974-1977 Republican,Pardoning of Nixon; Helsinki Accords36
13779675949Jimmy Carter1977-1981 Democrat,stagflation / energy crisis; Iran hostage crisis; Camp David Accords37
13779675950Ronald Reagan1981-1989 Republican,Conservative revolution; Iran-Contra scandal38
13779675951George H. W. Bush1989-1993 Republican,Persian Gulf War39
13779675952Bill Clinton1993-2001 Democrat,NAFTA; Lewinsky scandal and impreachment40
13779675953George W. Bush2001-2008 Republican,War on terrorism; Patriot Act; Tax cuts; "No Child Left Behind"41
13779675954Barack Obama2008-2017 Democrat,Affordable Care Act42
13779675955Donald Trump2017-? Republican,"Make America Great Again"43

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