List of United States Presidents by political affiliation

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This article is intended to be a comprehensive list of all presidents, grouped by political party.

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[edit] Democratic

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Fourteen members of the United States Democratic Party have served as president:

  1. Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)
  2. Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)
  3. James Knox Polk (1845-1849)
  4. Franklin Pierce (1853-1857)
  5. James Buchanan (1857-1861)
  6. Andrew Johnson (1865-1869)
  7. Stephen Grover Cleveland (1885-1889), (1893-1897)
  8. Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)
  9. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945)
  10. Harry S. Truman (1945-1953)
  11. John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1961-1963)
  12. Lyndon Baines Johnson (1963-1969)
  13. James Earl Carter, Jr. (1977-1981)
  14. William Jefferson Clinton (1993-2001)

[edit] Republican

Eighteen members of the United States Republican Party have served as president:

  1. Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)
  2. Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)
  3. Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1877-1881)
  4. James Abram Garfield (1881)
  5. Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885)
  6. Benjamin Harrison VI (1889-1893)
  7. William McKinley (1897-1901)
  8. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (1901-1909)
  9. William Howard Taft (1909-1913)
  10. Warren Gamaliel Harding (1921-1923)
  11. John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (1923-1929)
  12. Herbert Clark Hoover (1929-1933)
  13. Dwight David Eisenhower (1953-1961)
  14. Richard Milhous Nixon (1969-1974)
  15. Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (1974-1977)
  16. Ronald Wilson Reagan (1981-1989)
  17. George Herbert Walker Bush (1989-1993)
  18. George W. Bush (2001-present)

[edit] Whig

Four presidents were members of the United States Whig Party:

  1. William Henry Harrison (1841)
  2. John Tyler (see note) (1841-1845)
  3. Zachary Taylor (1849-1850)
  4. Millard Fillmore (1850-1853)

Note: Although Tyler was elected vice president on the Whig ticket, his policies soon proved to be opposed to most of the Whig agenda, and he was expelled from the party in 1841, a few months after taking office.

[edit] Democratic-Republican

Four presidents were members of the United States Democratic-Republican Party:

  1. Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)
  2. James Madison (1809-1817)
  3. James Monroe (1817-1825)
  4. John Quincy Adams (1825-1829)

[edit] Federalist

John Adams (1797-1801) was the only president elected as a member of the United States Federalist Party.

[edit] No affiliation

George Washington (1789-1797) is currently the only president to have been elected without any official endorsement by a political party. Generally speaking, Washington's policies reflected a moderate Federalist agenda.

[edit] Presidential trivia lists