Chart of the U.S. Presidents and Vice Presidents

History & Culture

Updated May 18, 2017

The first line of Article II Section 1 of the US Constitution states, "The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America." With these words, the office of the president was established. Since 1789 and the election of George Washington, America's first president, 43 individuals have served as the Chief Executive of the United States. However, Grover Cleveland served two nonconsecutive terms which means that the next president of the United States will be number 45.

The unamended Constitution mandated that a president would serve for four years. However, nowhere did it state if there was to be a limit on the number of terms to which they could be elected. However, President Washington set a precedent of only serving two terms which was followed until November 5, 1940 when Franklin Roosevelt was elected for a third term. He would go on to win a fourth before dying in office. The twenty-second amendment was passed soon afterward that would limit presidents to only serving two terms or ten years.

Chart of the Presidents and Vice-Presidents

PRESIDENT	VICE-PRESIDENT	POLITICAL PARTY	TERM
George Washington	John Adams	No Party Designation	1789-1797
John Adams	Thomas Jefferson	Federalist	1797-1801
Thomas Jefferson	Aaron Burr George Clinton	Democratic-Republican	1801-1809
James Madison	George Clinton Elbridge Gerry	Democratic-Republican	1809-1817
James Monroe	Daniel D Tompkins	Democratic-Republican	1817-1825
John Quincy Adams	John C Calhoun	Democratic-Republican	1825-1829
Andrew Jackson	John C Calhoun Martin Van Buren	Democratic	1829-1837
Martin Van Buren	Richard M. Johnson	Democratic	1837-1841
William Henry Harrison	John Tyler	Whig	1841
John Tyler	None	Whig	1841-1845
James Knox Polk	George M Dallas	Democratic	1845-1849
Zachary Taylor	Millard Fillmore	Whig	1849-1850
Millard Fillmore	None	Whig	1850-1853
Franklin Pierce	William R King	Democratic	1853-1857
James Buchanan	John C Breckinridge	Democratic	1857-1861

Abraham Lincoln	Hannibel Hamlin Andrew Johnson	Union	1861-1865
Andrew Johnson	None	Union	1865-1869
Ulysses Simpson Grant	Schuyler Colfax Henry Wilson	Republican	1869-1877
Rutherford Birchard Hayes	William A Wheeler	Republican	1877-1881
James Abram Garfield	Chester Alan Arthur	Republican	1881
Chester Alan Arthur	None	Republican	1881-1885
Stephen Grover Cleveland	Thomas Hendricks	Democratic	1885-1889
Benjamin Harrison	Levi P Morton	Republican	1889-1893
Stephen Grover Cleveland	Adlai E Stevenson	Democratic	1893-1897
William McKinley	Garret A. Hobart Theodore Roosevelt	Republican	1897-1901
Theodore Roosevelt	Charles W Fairbanks	Republican	1901-1909
William Howard Taft	James S Sherman	Republican	1909-1913
Woodrow Wilson	Thomas R Marshall	Democratic	1913-1921
Warren Gamaliel Harding	Calvin Coolidge	Republican	1921-1923
Calvin Coolidge	Charles G Dawes	Republican	1923-1929
Herbert Clark Hoover	Charles Curtis	Republican	1929-1933
Franklin Delano Roosevelt	John Nance Garner Henry A. Wallace Harry S. Truman	Democratic	1933-1945
Harry S. Truman	Alben W Barkley	Democratic	1945-1953
Dwight David Eisenhower	Richard Milhous Nixon	Republican	1953-1961
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Democratic	1961-1963
Lyndon Baines Johnson	Hubert Horatio Humphrey	Democratic	1963-1969
Richard Milhous Nixon	Spiro T. Agnew Gerald Rudolph Ford	Republican	1969-1974
Gerald Rudolph Ford	Nelson Rockefeller	Republican	1974-1977
James Earl Carter, Jr.	Walter Mondale	Democratic	1977-1981
Ronald Wilson Reagan	George Herbert Walker Bush	Republican	1981-1989
George Herbert Walker Bush	J. Danforth Quayle	Republican	1989-1993
William Jefferson Clinton	Albert Gore, Jr.	Democratic	1993-2001
George Walker Bush	Richard Cheney	Republican	2001-2009
Barack Obama	Joe Biden	Democratic	2009-2017
Donald Trump	Mike Pence	Republican	2017 -