CWFI History Lesson Three: The Presidents

Dr. Phillip Clark
The Presidents:

Date: Name:

1. 1789-1797 George Washington

2. 1797-1801 John Adams-

3. 1801-1809 Thomas Jefferson

4. 1809-1817 James Madison

5. 1817-1825 James Monroe

6. 1825-1829 John Quincy Adams

7. 1829-1837 Andrew Jackson-The first and only president to lead the country debt-free. Zero deficit.

8. 1837-1841 Martin VanBuren-President during the 1st depression of 1839.

9. 1841 William H. Harrison-(2hrs address to the nation, he catches a cold 31 days after being President and dies of pneumonia.)

10.1841-1845 John Tyler

11. 1845-1849 James K Polk

12. 1849-1850 Zachary Taylor

13. 1850-1853 Millard Fillmore

14. 1853-1857 Franklin Pierce

15. 1857-1861 James Buchanan

16. 1861-1865 Abraham Lincoln

17. 1865-1869 Andrew Johnson

18. 1869-1877 Ulysses S. Grant

19. 1877-1881 Rutherford B. Hayes

20. 1881 James Garfield

21. 1881-1885 Chester A. Arthur

22. 1885-1889 Grover Cleveland-the first President to serve two non-consecutive terms.

23. 1889-1893 Benjamin Harrison

24. 1893-1897 Grover Cleveland

25. 1897-1901 William McKinley

26. 1901-1909 Theodore Roosevelt

27. 1909-1913 William H. Taft

28. 1913-1921 Woodrow Wilson-WWI

29. 1921-1923 Warren G. Harding-died while in office.

30. 1923-1929 Calvin Coolidge

31. 1929-1933 Herbert Hoover-(2nd Depression Era/Stock-market Crash).

32. 1933-1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt-(caught the tail end of the 2nd Depression and endured WWII)

33. 1945-1953 Harry S. Truman

34. 1953-1961 Dwight D. Eisenhower

35. 1961-1963 John F. Kennedy

36. 1963-1969 Lyndon B. Johnson

37. 1969-1974 Richard M. Nixon

38. 1974-1977 Gerald R. Ford

39. 1977-1981 James E. Carter

40. 1981-1989 Ronald W. Reagan

41. 1989-1993 George W. Bush

42. 1993-2001 William J. Clinton

43. 2001-2009 George W. Bush Jr.-(the 1st twenty-first century President)

44. 2009------Barack H. Obama-(the 1st African American President of the United States, 2nd President of the twenty-first century.)

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