American Presidents

A history of American presidents (and vice presidents).

There is a non-neglibile trend for vice presidents to later become presidents, but it is far from common. For portions of history, there was a more significant trend for secretaries of state to later become presidents. Nonetheless, per the 11th amendment, presidents and vice presidents run together on a ticket, and therefore they belong on the same timeline.

President	Term	Vice Presidents
George Washington	1789-1797	John Adams
John Adams	1797-1801	Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson	1801-1809	Aaron Burr, George Clinton
James Madison	1809-1817	George Clinton, Elbridge Gerry
James Monroe	1817-1825	Daniel D. Tompkins
John Quincy Adams	1825-1829	John C. Calhoun
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	John C. Calhoun, Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren	1837-1841	Richard Mentor Johnson
William Henry Harrison	1841-1841	John Tyler
John Tyler	1841-1845
James K. Polk	1845-1849	George M. Dallas
Zachary Taylor	1849-1850	Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore	1850-1853
Franklin Pierce	1853-1857	William R. King
James Buchanan	1857-1861	John C. Breckinridge
Abraham Lincoln	1861-1865	Hannibal Hamlin, Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson	1865-1869
Ulysses S. Grant	1869-1877	Schuyler Colfax, Henry Wilson
Rutherford B. Hayes	1877-1881	William A. Wheeler
James A. Garfield	1881-1881	Chester A. Arthur
Chester A. Arthur	1881-1885
Grover Cleveland	1885-1889	Thomas A. Hendricks
Benjamin Harrison	1889-1893	Levi P. Morton
Grover Cleveland	1893-1897	Adlai Stevenson I
William McKinley	1897-1901	Garret Hobart, Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt	1901-1909	Charles W. Fairbanks
William Howard Taft	1909-1913	James S. Sherman
Woodrow Wilson	1913-1921	Thomas R. Marshall
Warren G. Harding	1921-1923	Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge	1923-1929	Charles G. Dawes
Herbert Hoover	1929-1933	Charles Curtis
Franklin D. Roosevelt	1933-1945	John Nance Garner, Henry A. Wallace, Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman	1945-1953	Alben W. Barkley
Dwight D. Eisenhower	1953-1961	Richard Nixon
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	Hubert Humphrey
Richard Nixon	1969-1974	Spiro Agnew, Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford	1974-1977	Nelson Rockefeller
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	Walter Mondale
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush	1989-1993	Dan Quayle
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	Al Gore
George W. Bush	2001-2009	Dick Cheney
Barack Obama	2009-2017	Joe Biden
Donald Trump	2017-2021	Mike Pence
Joe Biden	2021-	Kamala Harris

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