PRESIDENT

n. 25B6; noun

terrorists assassinated the president : HEAD OF STATE. See list.

the president of the society : HEAD, chief, director, leader, governor, principal, master; N. Amer. informal prexy.

the president of the company : CHAIRMAN, chairwoman; managing director, MD, chief executive (officer), CEO.

Presidents of the USA

dates in office

1 George Washington 1789–1797

2 John Adams 1797–1801

3 Thomas Jefferson 1801–1809

4 James Madison 1809–1817

5 James Monroe 1817–1825

6 John Quincy Adams 1825–1829

7 Andrew Jackson 1829–1837

8 Martin Van Buren 1837–1841

9 William Henry Harrison 1841

10 John Tyler 1841–1845

11 James Knox Polk 1845–1849

12 Zachary Taylor 1849–1850

13 Millard Fillmore 1850–1853

14 Franklin Pierce 1853–1857

15 James Buchanan 1857–1861

16 Abraham Lincoln 1861–1865

17 Andrew Johnson 1865–1869

18 Ulysses Simpson Grant 1869–1877

19 Rutherford Birchard Hayes 1877–1881

20 James Abram Garfield 1881

21 Chester Alan Arthur 1881–1885

22 (Stephen) Grover Cleveland 1885–1889

23 Benjamin Harrison 1889–1893

24 (Stephen) Grover Cleveland 1893–1897

25 William McKinley 1897–1901

26 Theodore Roosevelt 1901–1909

27 William Howard Taft 1909–1913

28 (Thomas) Woodrow Wilson 1913–1921

29 Warren Gamaliel Harding 1921–1923

30 Calvin Coolidge 1923–1929

31 Herbert Clark Hoover 1929–1933

32 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933–1945

33 Harry S. Truman 1945–1953

34 Dwight David Eisenhower 1953–1961

35 John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1961–1963

36 Lyndon Baines Johnson 1963–1969

37 Richard Milhous Nixon 1969–1974

38 Gerald Rudolph Ford 1974–1977

39 James Earl Carter, Jr. 1977–1981

40 Ronald Wilson Reagan 1981–1989

41 George Herbert Walker Bush 1989–1993

42 William Jefferson Clinton 1993–2001

43 George Walker Bush from 2001