USA
57 leaders
George Washington
The first President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the Continental Army during the Revolutiona...
John Adams
The first Vice President and second President of the United States. Adams was a leading advocate for independe...
Thomas Jefferson
The primary author of the Declaration of Independence and third President. Jeffersons presidency saw the Louis...
James Madison
The Father of the Constitution and fourth President. Madison was the principal architect of the US Constitutio...
James Monroe
The fifth President, known for the Monroe Doctrine, which declared that the Western Hemisphere was off limits ...
John Quincy Adams
The sixth President and son of John Adams. Adams won a controversial election decided by the House of Represen...
Andrew Jackson
The seventh President and first from the frontier. Jackson was a military hero from the Battle of New Orleans ...
Martin Van Buren
The eighth President and the first born as a US citizen. Van Buren was a skilled political organizer who helpe...
William Henry Harrison
The ninth President with the shortest presidency in US history. Harrison served only 31 days before dying of p...
John Tyler
The tenth President and first to assume office after a presidents death. Tyler was expelled from the Whig Part...
James K Polk
The eleventh President who fulfilled every major campaign promise in a single term. Polk acquired Oregon from ...
Zachary Taylor
The twelfth President and second to die in office. Taylor was a military hero from the Mexican American War. H...
Millard Fillmore
The thirteenth President who succeeded Zachary Taylor. Fillmore signed the Compromise of 1850, including the c...
Franklin Pierce
The fourteenth President whose policies intensified sectional tensions before the Civil War. Pierce signed the...
James Buchanan
The fifteenth President, consistently ranked as the worst in American history. Buchanan failed to prevent the ...
Abraham Lincoln
The sixteenth President who led the nation through the Civil War and emancipated enslaved people. Lincolns ele...
Andrew Johnson
The seventeenth President who assumed office after Lincolns assassination. Johnson was a southern Democrat who...
Ulysses S Grant
The eighteenth President and Civil War commanding general who accepted Lees surrender at Appomattox. Grants pr...
Rutherford B Hayes
The nineteenth President elected in one of the most disputed elections in American history. Hayes lost the pop...
James A Garfield
The twentieth President who was shot by an assassin just four months after taking office and died 80 days late...
Chester A Arthur
The twenty first President who surprised everyone by becoming a reformer. Arthur was a product of the spoils s...
Grover Cleveland
The only president to serve two non consecutive terms, making him both the 22nd and 24th president. Cleveland ...
Benjamin Harrison
The twenty third President and grandson of William Henry Harrison. Harrison signed the Sherman Antitrust Act o...
William McKinley
The twenty fifth President who led America into international prominence. McKinleys presidency saw the Spanish...
Theodore Roosevelt
The twenty sixth President and the youngest to assume office at age 42. Roosevelt was a dynamic force who bust...
William Howard Taft
The twenty seventh President and later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the only person to hold both positi...
Woodrow Wilson
The twenty eighth President who led the country through World War I. Wilson initially kept America neutral but...
Warren G Harding
The twenty ninth President whose administration was one of the most corrupt in history. Harding died suddenly ...
Calvin Coolidge
The thirtieth President known as Silent Cal for his brevity. Coolidge was sworn in by his father by kerosene l...
Herbert Hoover
The thirty first President who was in office when the Great Depression began. Hoover was a brilliant engineer ...
Franklin D Roosevelt
The thirty second President and the only one elected four times. FDR led the nation through the Great Depressi...
Harry S Truman
The thirty third President who made some of the momentous decisions in history. Truman authorized the atomic b...
Dwight D Eisenhower
The thirty fourth President and Supreme Allied Commander during World War II. Eisenhower planned and commanded...
John F Kennedy
The thirty fifth President and first Catholic to hold the office. JFKs presidency was marked by the Cuban Miss...
Lyndon B Johnson
The thirty sixth President who succeeded Kennedy and passed the most sweeping domestic legislation since the N...
Richard Nixon
The thirty seventh President, the only one to resign from office. Nixons presidency saw the opening of relatio...
Gerald Ford
The thirty eighth President and the only one never elected as president or vice president. Ford was appointed ...
Jimmy Carter
The thirty ninth President who has had the longest and most active post presidency in American history. Carter...
Ronald Reagan
The fortieth President who transformed American politics. Reagan, a former Hollywood actor and California gove...
George H W Bush
The forty first President and the last to have served in World War II. Bush presided over the end of the Cold ...
Bill Clinton
The forty second President and first Baby Boomer to hold the office. Clintons presidency saw unprecedented eco...
George W Bush
The forty third President whose presidency was transformed by the September 11 attacks. Bush launched the War ...
Barack Obama
The forty fourth President and the first African American to hold the office. Obamas election in 2008 was a wa...
Donald Trump
The forty fifth President and the first without prior government or military experience. Trump, a real estate ...
Joe Biden
The forty sixth President and the oldest person to assume the presidency at age 78. Biden had served as a sena...
John Adams Detail
See John Adams main entry. As the first Vice President, Adams called the office the most insignificant office ...
Thomas Jefferson Detail
See Thomas Jefferson main entry. As vice president under John Adams, Jefferson opposed the Adams administratio...
Aaron Burr
The third Vice President of the United States, serving under Jefferson. Burr is infamous for killing Alexander...
George Clinton
The fourth Vice President, serving under Jefferson and Madison. Clinton was the longest serving governor of Ne...
Elbridge Gerry
The fifth Vice President, serving under Madison. Gerry is the source of the word gerrymandering, the practice ...
Daniel Webster
One of the greatest senators in American history and a three time presidential candidate. Webster was renowned...
Henry Clay
The Great Compromiser and one of the most influential politicians never to become president. Clay ran for pres...
John C Calhoun
The seventh Vice President and leading theorist of states rights and slavery. Calhoun served as vice president...
William Jennings Bryan
The Populist Democrat who ran for president three times and lost each time. Bryans Cross of Gold speech at the...
Barry Goldwater
The conservative Republican who lost the 1964 presidential election to Lyndon Johnson in a landslide. Goldwate...
Ross Perot
The billionaire businessman who ran one of the most successful third party campaigns in American history. Pero...
Roosevelt Detail
See FDR main entry. Roosevelt was the only president to serve more than two terms. The 22nd Amendment, ratifie...