American Presidents

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LEGEND: + Died in office x Resigned from Presidency ++ Assassinated in office xx Resigned from Vice Presidency *Appointed Vice President (Not elected) # Year President Vice President(s) Party 1 1789- 1797 George Washington John Adams none 2 1797- 1801 John Adams Thomas Jefferson Federalist 3 1801- 1809 Thomas Jefferson Aaron Burr (to 1805) George Clinton (to 1809) Dem-Rep 4 1809- 1817 James Madison George Clinton (to 1813) Elbridge Gerry (to 1817) Dem-Rep 5 1817- 1825 James Monroe Daniel D.Tompkins Dem-Rep 6 1825- 1829 John Quincy Adams John C. Calhoun Nat-Rep 7 1829- 1837 Andrew Jackson John C. Calhoun(to 1833) Martin van Buren (to 1837) Democrat 8 1837- 1841 Martin van Buren Richard M. Johnson Democrat 9 1841- 1841 +1 William Harrison John Tyler Whig 10 1841- 1845 John Tyler No Vice President Whig 11 1845- 1849 James K. Polk George M. Dallas Democrat 12 1849- 1850 +2 Zachary Taylor Millard Fillmore Whig 13 1850- 1853 Millard Fillmore No Vice President Whig 14 1853- 1857 Franklin Pierce William R. King Democrat 15 1857- 1861 James Buchanan John C. Breckinridge Democrat 16 1861- 1865 ++1 Abraham Lincoln Hannibal Hamlin (to 1865) Andrew Johnson (1865) Republican 17 1865- 1869 Andrew Johnson No Vice President Republican 18 1869- 1877 Ulysses S. Grant Schuyler Colfax (to 1873) Henry Wilson (to 1877) Republican 19 1877- 1881 Rutherford B. Hayes William A. Heeler Republican 20 1881- 1881 ++2 James A. Garfield Chester A. Arthur Republican 21 1881- 1885 Chester A. Arthur No Vice President Republican 22 1885- 1889 Grover Cleveland Thomas A. Hendricks Democrat 23 1889- 1893 Benjamin Harrison Levi P. Morton Republican 24 1893- 1897 Grover Cleveland Adlai E. Stevenson Democrat 25 1897- 1901 ++3William McKinley Garret A. Hobart (to 1901) Theodore Roosevelt (1901) Republican 26 1901- 1909 Theodore Roosevelt No Vice President (1901-1905) Charles Fairbanks (1905-1909) Republican 27 1909- 1913 William Howard Taft James S. Sherman Republican 28 1913- 1921 Woodrow Wilson Thomas R. Marshall Democrat 29 1921- 1923 +3 Warren Harding Calvin Coolidge Republican 30 1923- 1929 Calvin Coolidge No Vice President (1923-1925) Charles G. Dawes (1925-1929) Republican 31 1929- 1933 Herbert Hoover Charles Curtis Republican 32 1933- 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt John N. Garner (1933-1941) Henry A. Wallace(1941-1945) Harry S.Truman (1945) Democrat 33 1945- 1953 Harry S. Truman No Vice President (1945-1949) Alben W. Barkley (1949-1953) Democrat 34 1953- 1961 Dwight D. Eisenhower Richard M. Nixon Republican 35 1961- 1963 ++4 John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Democrat 36 1963- 1969 Lyndon B. Johnson No Vice President (1963-1965) Hubert Humphrey (1965-1969) Democrat 37 1969- 1974 x Richard M. Nixon Spiro T. Agnew xx Gerald R. Ford * Republican 38 1974- 1977 Gerald R. Ford Nelson A. Rockefeller * Republican 39 1977- 1981 Jimmy Carter Walter Mondale Democrat 40 1981- 1989 Ronald Reagan George Bush Republican 41 1989- 1993 George Bush Dan Quayle Republican 42 1993- 2001 William Jefferson Clinton (Bill) Albert Gore, Jr. Democrat 43 2001- ... George W. Bush Dick Cheney Republican +1 Died in office of pneumonia. +2 Died in office of heat exhaustion. +3 Died in office of a heart attack. +4 Died in office of a cerebral hemorrhage. ++1 Shot to death by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre. ++2 Shot by Charles Guiteau, died after many weeks of infection caused by his doctors. ++3 Shot to death by anarchist Leon Czolgosz. ++4 Shot to death by Lee Harvey Oswald.

QUESTIONS: Directions: Type in the correct answer for each question. Then click the "Check Answers" button. 1. Who is the President now? 2. What number President was Abraham Lincoln? 3. In what year was Lincoln assassinated? 4. Which political party was George Washington a member of? 5. Who was Ronald Reagan's Vice President? 6. Who became President after Ronald Reagan? 7. How many Vice Presidents later became Presidents? 8. Which President died of pneumonia while in office? 9. How many Presidents were assassinated while in office? 10. Which President resigned his position? 11. Who was the last President to belong to the Whig party? 12. Who was the first President? 13. Who became President after John F. Kennedy was assassinated? 14. Who became President in 1801? 15. Which political party was Bill Clinton a member of? 16. How many times in history did the US have no Vice President? 17. Which President belonged to the Federalist party? 18. Which President served the longest? (12 years) 19. Which President died of a heart attack while in office? 20. What year did the first President take office?

 

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