19th Century
35 leaders
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...
Simón Bolívar
The Liberator who freed much of South America from Spanish rule. Bolivar led independence movements that liber...
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...
Queen Victoria
The queen whose name defined an era. Victoria reigned for 63 years, the longest until Elizabeth II. During her...
Otto von Bismarck
The Iron Chancellor who unified Germany in 1871 through blood and iron. Bismarck fought wars against Denmark, ...
Benito Juarez
The Mexican president of indigenous Zapotec origin who resisted the French occupation. Juarez instituted liber...
Nicholas II
The last Tsar of Russia, whose reign ended with the Russian Revolution. Nicholas II was a weak, indecisive rul...