World History by Credo Reference: U.S. Presidents

1st President of the United States (1789–97). General of the Continental Army during the American Revolution. A surveyor by trade, Washington became the first American military hero by leading American forces to victory over the British Army.

2nd President of the United States (1797–1801) and first Vice President of the United States under Washington. American Revolutionary and member of the Continental Congress.

3rd President of the United States (1801–9). Served as Vice President and Secretary of State under Washington, governor of Virginia during the American Revolution, and member of the Continental Congress. American statesman, political philosopher and author of the Declaration of Independence.

4th President of the United States (1809–17).

5th President of the United States (1817–25).

6th president of the United States (1825–1829).

7th President of the United States (1829–37).

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Eighth president of the United States (1837-41).

9th President of the United States (Mar. 4–Apr. 4, 1841).

10th President of the United States (1841-1845).

11th President of the United States (1845–49).

12th President of the United States (1849–50).

13th President of the United States (1850–1853).

14th President of the United States (1853–57).

15th President of the United States (1857–61).

16th President of the United States (1861–65) and President during the Civil War. Author of the Emancipation Proclamation, the executive order abolishing slavery in America, who also passed the thirteenth amendment making slavery illegal. Assassinated in 1865 by Southern sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.

17th President of the United States (1865–69).

18th President of the United States (1869-1877) who also served as commander in chief of the Union army in the Civil War.

19th President of the United States (1877–81).

20th President of the United States (Mar.–Sept., 1881).

21st President of the United States (1881–1885)

23rd President of the United States (1889-1893)

22nd and 24th president of the USA (1885-89 and 1893-97)
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25th president of the United States (1897–1901).

26th President of the United States (1901–1909).

27th President of the United States (1909–13).

28th president of the United States (1913–1921).

29th President of the United States (1921–1923).

30th President of the United States (1923–29).

31st President of the United States (1929–33).

32nd President of the United States (1933–1945).

33rd President of the United States (1945-1953).

34th President of the United States (1953-1961).

35th President of the United States (1961-1963).

36th President of the United States (1963–1969).

37th President of the United States (1969–74).

38th president of the United States (1974–77).

39th president of the United States (1977–81).

40th president of the USA (1981-89).

41st President of the United States (1989–1993).

42nd president of the United States (1993-2001).

43rd president of the United States (2001–2009).

44th president of the USA (2009- ).