George Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ulysses S. Grant
Franklin D. Roosevelt served as President for over 12 years, the longest time in office. He is the only president to serve more than two terms; he died shortly into his fourth term in 1945.
Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
Grover Cleveland
Ronald Reagan
Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is counted chronologically as both the twenty-second and the twenty-fourth president.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Donald Trump
James Buchanan
Ronald Reagan
Donald Trump was 70 years and 7 months old when he was inaugurated on January 20, 2017.
George Washington
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
On Saturday, November 1, 1800, John Adams became the first president to take residence in the White House.
Barack Obama
Franklin Pierce
Benjamin Harrison
William Howard Taft
Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Stanley Ann Dunham, an American of predominantly English descent from Wichita, Kansas, and Barack Obama, Sr., a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya Colony. Obama is the first President to have been born in Hawaii.
There was no official Vice Presidents before 1804
The Presidential Candidate receiving the second-largest number of electoral votes
President and Vice President were voted on separately
Appointed by the Presdient
The Vice President was originally determined by the presidential candidate receiving the second-largest number of electoral votes. The Twelfth Amendment, passed in 1804, changed the system so that the electoral college voted separately for president and vice president.
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Johnson
James Buchanan
The purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire in 1867 is considered Andrew Johnson's most important foreign policy action. The idea and implementation is credited to Secretary of State William Seward who dubbed the purchase Seward's Folly.
Harry S. Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
The first President to appear on black and white television was Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 30, 1939 at the opening ceremonies for the World's Fair.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
George Washington
Ronald Reagan
George Washington was unanimously elected by the Electoral College in 1789, and again in the 1792 election; he remains the only president to have received 100% of the electoral votes. James Monroe, the fifth President, received every Electoral College vote except one. A New Hampshire delegate wanted to preserve the legacy of George Washington.
Bill Clinton
George H.W. Bush
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
On June 13, 1967, President Lyndon Johnson appointed Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court following the retirement of Justice Tom C. Clark, saying that this was "the right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man and the right place." Marshall was confirmed as an Associate Justice by a Senate vote of 69-11 on August 31, 1967. He was the 96th person to hold the position, and the first African-American.