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Presidents of the United States of America

George Washington(1)	1789–97	1 2 3 4 5
John Adams	1797–1801
Thomas Jefferson(2)	1801–09
James Madison	1809–17
James Monroe(3)	1817–25
John Quincy Adams	1825–29
Andrew Jackson(4)	1829–37
Martin Van Buren(5)	1837–41
William Henry Harrison	1841
John Tyler	1841–45
James Polk	1845–49
Zachary Taylor	1849–50
Millard Fillmore	1850–53
Franklin Pierce	1853–57
James Buchanan	1857–61
Abraham Lincoln	1861–65
Andrew Johnson	1865–69
Ulysses S. Grant	1869–77
Rutherford B. Hayes	1877–81
James Garfield	1881
Chester Arthur	1881–85
Grover Cleveland	1885–89
Benjamin Harrison	1889–93
Grover Cleveland	1893–97
William McKinley	1897–1901
Theodore Roosevelt	1901–09
William H. Taft	1909–13
Woodrow Wilson	1913–21
Warren Harding	1921–23
Calvin Coolidge	1923–29
Herbert Hoover	1929–33
Franklin D. Roosevelt	1933–45
Harry Truman	1945–53
Dwight Eisenhower	1953–61
John F. Kennedy	1961–63
Lyndon Johnson	1963–69
Richard Nixon	1969–74
Gerald Ford	1974–77
Jimmy Carter	1977–81
Ronald Reagan	1981–89
George H. W. Bush	1989–93
William J. Clinton	1993–2001
George W. Bush	2001–2009
Barack Obama	2009–present

The American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Citation

The American Wing. "Presidents of the United States of America". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/uspr/hd_uspr.htm (October 2004)

Suggested Online Resources

The White House: The Presidents of the United States

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