List of U.S. Presidents

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Comprehensive list of U.S. Presidents, curated for the curious historian. Political affiliation, Birth place, and other offices served round out this curious list.

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George Washington

Political Affiliation: Independent
Years Served: 1789-1797
Birth Place: Westmoreland County, Virginia
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, President of the Constitutional Convention

John Adams

Political Affiliation: Federalist
Years Served: 1797-1801
Birth Place: Braintree, Massachusetts
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Vice President under George Washington, Minister to the United Kingdom, Minister to the Netherlands

Thomas Jefferson

Political Affiliation: Democratic-Republican
Years Served: 1801-1809
Birth Place: Shadwell, Virginia
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Vice President under John Adams, Secretary of State, Minister to France, Governor of Virginia, Author of the Declaration of Independence

James Madison

Political Affiliation: Democratic-Republican
Years Served: 1809-1817
Birth Place: Port Conway, Virginia
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Secretary of State under Thomas Jefferson, Member of the Continental Congress, "Father of the Constitution"

James Monroe

Political Affiliation: Democratic-Republican
Years Served: 1817-1825
Birth Place: Monroe Hall, Virginia
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Secretary of State and Secretary of War under James Madison, Governor of Virginia, Minister to France and the United Kingdom

John Quincy Adams

Political Affiliation: Democratic-Republican
Years Served: 1825-1829
Birth Place: Braintree, Massachusetts
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Secretary of State under James Monroe, Minister to the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Prussia, and Russia, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts

Andrew Jackson

Political Affiliation: Democrat
Years Served: 1829-1837
Birth Place: Waxhaws Region between North and South Carolina
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Military Commissioner of Florida, U.S. Representative and Senator from Tennessee, Major General in the U.S. Army

Martin Van Buren

Political Affiliation: Democrat
Years Served: 1837-1841
Birth Place: Kinderhook, New York
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Vice President under Andrew Jackson, Secretary of State under Andrew Jackson, Governor of New York, U.S. Senator from New York

William Henry Harrison

Political Affiliation: Whig
Years Served: 1841 (Died in office)
Birth Place: Charles City County, Virginia
List of Other Govt Services Performed: U.S. Representative and Senator from Ohio, Minister to Colombia, Territorial Governor of the Indiana Territory

John Tyler

Political Affiliation: Whig (later expelled)
Years Served: 1841-1845
Birth Place: Charles City County, Virginia
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Vice President under William Henry Harrison, U.S. Senator and Representative from Virginia, Governor of Virginia
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James K. Polk

Political Affiliation: Democrat
Years Served: 1845-1849
Birth Place: Pineville, North Carolina
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Governor of Tennessee, Speaker of the House, U.S. Representative from Tennessee

Zachary Taylor

Political Affiliation: Whig
Years Served: 1849-1850 (Died in office)
Birth Place: Barboursville, Virginia
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Major General in the U.S. Army

Millard Fillmore

Political Affiliation: Whig
Years Served: 1850-1853
Birth Place: Summerhill, New York
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Vice President under Zachary Taylor, U.S. Representative from New York

Franklin Pierce

Political Affiliation: Democrat
Years Served: 1853-1857
Birth Place: Hillsborough, New Hampshire
List of Other Govt Services Performed: U.S. Senator and Representative from New Hampshire, Brigadier General in the U.S. Army

James Buchanan

Political Affiliation: Democrat
Years Served: 1857-1861
Birth Place: Cove Gap, Pennsylvania
List of Other Govt Services Performed: U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, Minister to the United Kingdom and Russia

Abraham Lincoln

Political Affiliation: Republican
Years Served: 1861-1865 (Assassinated)
Birth Place: Hardin County, Kentucky
List of Other Govt Services Performed: U.S. Representative from Illinois

Andrew Johnson

Political Affiliation: National Union (previously Democrat)
Years Served: 1865-1869
Birth Place: Raleigh, North Carolina
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Vice President under Abraham Lincoln, U.S. Senator from Tennessee, Governor of Tennessee, Military Governor of Tennessee

Ulysses S. Grant

Political Affiliation: Republican
Years Served: 1869-1877
Birth Place: Point Pleasant, Ohio
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Commanding General of the U.S. Army

Rutherford B. Hayes

Political Affiliation: Republican
Years Served: 1877-1881
Birth Place: Delaware, Ohio
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Governor of Ohio, U.S. Representative from Ohio

James A. Garfield

Political Affiliation: Republican
Years Served: 1881 (Assassinated)
Birth Place: Moreland Hills, Ohio
List of Other Govt Services Performed: U.S. Representative from Ohio, Major General in the U.S. Army

Chester A. Arthur

Political Affiliation: Republican
Years Served: 1881-1885
Birth Place: Fairfield, Vermont
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Vice President under James A. Garfield, Collector of the Port of New York

Grover Cleveland (1st term)

Political Affiliation: Democrat
Years Served: 1885-1889
Birth Place: Caldwell, New Jersey
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Governor of New York, Mayor of Buffalo

Benjamin Harrison

Political Affiliation: Republican
Years Served: 1889-1893
Birth Place: North Bend, Ohio
List of Other Govt Services Performed: U.S. Senator from Indiana

Grover Cleveland (2nd term)

Political Affiliation: Democrat
Years Served: 1893-1897
Birth Place: Caldwell, New Jersey
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Governor of New York, Mayor of Buffalo

William McKinley

Political Affiliation: Republican
Years Served: 1897-1901 (Assassinated)
Birth Place: Niles, Ohio
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Governor of Ohio, U.S. Representative from Ohio

Theodore Roosevelt

Political Affiliation: Republican
Years Served: 1901-1909
Birth Place: New York City, New York
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Vice President under William McKinley, Governor of New York, Assistant Secretary of the Navy

William Howard Taft

Political Affiliation: Republican
Years Served: 1909-1913
Birth Place: Cincinnati, Ohio
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Secretary of War, Chief Justice of the United States

Woodrow Wilson

Political Affiliation: Democrat
Years Served: 1913-1921
Birth Place: Staunton, Virginia
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Governor of New Jersey, President of Princeton University

Warren G. Harding

Political Affiliation: Republican
Years Served: 1921-1923 (Died in office)
Birth Place: Blooming Grove, Ohio
List of Other Govt Services Performed: U.S. Senator from Ohio, Lieutenant Governor of Ohio

Calvin Coolidge

Political Affiliation: Republican
Years Served: 1923-1929
Birth Place: Plymouth Notch, Vermont
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Vice President under Warren G. Harding, Governor of Massachusetts, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, Mayor of Northampton

Herbert Hoover

Political Affiliation: Republican
Years Served: 1929-1933
Birth Place: West Branch, Iowa
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Secretary of Commerce, Director of the U.S. Food Administration

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Political Affiliation: Democrat
Years Served: 1933-1945 (Died in office)
Birth Place: Hyde Park, New York
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Governor of New York, Assistant Secretary of the Navy

Harry S. Truman

Political Affiliation: Democrat
Years Served: 1945-1953
Birth Place: Lamar, Missouri
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Vice President under Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. Senator from Missouri

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Political Affiliation: Republican
Years Served: 1953-1961
Birth Place: Denison, Texas
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War II

John F. Kennedy

Political Affiliation: Democrat
Years Served: 1961-1963 (Assassinated)
Birth Place: Brookline, Massachusetts
List of Other Govt Services Performed: U.S. Senator and Representative from Massachusetts

Lyndon B. Johnson

Political Affiliation: Democrat
Years Served: 1963-1969
Birth Place: Stonewall, Texas
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Vice President under John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator and Representative from Texas, Majority Whip and Majority Leader in the Senate

Richard Nixon

Political Affiliation: Republican
Years Served: 1969-1974 (Resigned)
Birth Place: Yorba Linda, California
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Vice President under Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. Representative and Senator from California

Gerald Ford

Political Affiliation: Republican
Years Served: 1974-1977
Birth Place: Omaha, Nebraska
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Vice President under Richard Nixon, U.S. Representative from Michigan, House Minority Leader

Jimmy Carter

Political Affiliation: Democrat
Years Served: 1977-1981
Birth Place: Plains, Georgia
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Governor of Georgia, Georgia State Senator

Ronald Reagan

Political Affiliation: Republican
Years Served: 1981-1989
Birth Place: Tampico, Illinois
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Governor of California

George H. W. Bush

Political Affiliation: Republican
Years Served: 1989-1993
Birth Place: Milton, Massachusetts
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Vice President under Ronald Reagan, Director of the CIA, U.S. Representative from Texas, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office to the People's Republic of China

Bill Clinton

Political Affiliation: Democrat
Years Served: 1993-2001
Birth Place: Hope, Arkansas
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Governor of Arkansas, Attorney General of Arkansas

George W. Bush

Political Affiliation: Republican
Years Served: 2001-2009
Birth Place: New Haven, Connecticut
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Governor of Texas

Barack Obama

Political Affiliation: Democrat
Years Served: 2009-2017
Birth Place: Honolulu, Hawaii
List of Other Govt Services Performed: U.S. Senator from Illinois, Illinois State Senator

Donald Trump

Political Affiliation: Republican
Years Served: 2017-2021
Birth Place: Queens, New York
**List of Other Govt

Services Performed:** None (prior to presidency)

Joe Biden

Political Affiliation: Democrat
Years Served: 2021-Present (as of last update in 2021)
Birth Place: Scranton, Pennsylvania
List of Other Govt Services Performed: Vice President under Barack Obama, U.S. Senator from Delaware

# Conclusion

In reflecting upon the lineage of U.S. Presidents, it's fascinating to observe the diverse birthplaces that span from rural towns to bustling cities, painting a vivid tapestry of America's geographical heritage.

Equally intriguing is the spectrum of political affiliations, which not only chronicles the evolution of America's political landscape but also underscores the dynamic nature of its democracy. Beyond their presidencies, many of these leaders have rendered invaluable government services in various capacities, further enriching the nation's history.

These multifaceted dimensions of birthplaces, political affiliations, and prior government roles offer a deeper understanding of the individuals who have shaped the United States' trajectory.

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