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George Washington
Years in office: 1789-1797 & Key achievements: First President of the United States, established many protocols for the new government.
John Adams
Years in office: 1797-1801 & Key achievements: First Vice President, helped draft the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
Years in office: 1801-1809 & Key achievements: Authored the Declaration of Independence, Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark expedition.
James Madison
Years in office: 1809-1817 & Key achievements: Father of the Constitution, led the nation through the War of 1812.
James Monroe
Years in office: 1817-1825 & Key achievements: Monroe Doctrine, acquisition of Florida, Era of Good Feelings.
John Quincy Adams
Years in office: 1825-1829 & Key achievements: Formulated the Monroe Doctrine as Secretary of State, significant role as a diplomat.
Andrew Jackson
Years in office: 1829-1837 & Key achievements: Founder of the Democratic Party, Indian Removal Act, Nullification Crisis.
Martin Van Buren
Years in office: 1837-1841 & Key achievements: Established the Independent Treasury System, dealt with the Panic of 1837.
William Henry Harrison
Years in office: March-April 1841 & Key achievements: Shortest-serving U.S. President, died in office.
John Tyler
Years in office: 1841-1845 & Key achievements: Annexation of Texas, vetoes of Whig legislation, first Vice President to assume presidency after the death of a President.
James K. Polk
Years in office: 1845-1849 & Key achievements: Mexican-American War, Oregon Treaty, significant territorial expansion.
Zachary Taylor
Years in office: 1849-1850 & Key achievements: Major General in the Mexican-American War, opposed the extension of slavery.
Millard Fillmore
Years in office: 1850-1853 & Key achievements: Compromise of 1850, opened Japan to Western trade with the Perry Expedition.
Franklin Pierce
Years in office: 1853-1857 & Key achievements: Kansas-Nebraska Act, Gadsden Purchase, enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act.
James Buchanan
Years in office: 1857-1861 & Key achievements: Dred Scott decision, attempted to maintain the Union, prelude to the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
Years in office: 1861-1865 & Key achievements: Emancipation Proclamation, victory in the Civil War, Gettysburg Address.
Andrew Johnson
Years in office: 1865-1869 & Key achievements: Reconstruction era, first President to be impeached.
Ulysses S. Grant
Years in office: 1869-1877 & Key achievements: Reconstruction, ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, settled the Alabama Claims with Great Britain.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Years in office: 1877-1881 & Key achievements: End of Reconstruction, initiated civil service reforms, Bland–Allison Act.
James A. Garfield
Years in office: March-September 1881 & Key achievements: Advocated for civil service reform, second President to be assassinated.
Chester A. Arthur
Years in office: 1881-1885 & Key achievements: Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, modernization of the U.S. Navy.
Grover Cleveland
Years in office: 1885-1889 & Key achievements: Interstate Commerce Commission, Dawes Act, first term of two non-consecutive terms.
Benjamin Harrison
Years in office: 1889-1893 & Key achievements: Sherman Antitrust Act, McKinley Tariff, increased federal spending.
Grover Cleveland
Years in office: 1893-1897 & Key achievements: Pullman Strike, Panic of 1893, only President to serve two non-consecutive terms.
William McKinley
Years in office: 1897-1901 & Key achievements: Spanish-American War, Annexation of Hawaii, assassinated in office.
Theodore Roosevelt
Years in office: 1901-1909 & Key achievements: Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, Progressive reforms.
William Howard Taft
Years in office: 1909-1913 & Key achievements: Dollar Diplomacy, establishment of the income tax through the Sixteenth Amendment, later became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Woodrow Wilson
Years in office: 1913-1921 & Key achievements: World War I leadership, Fourteen Points, League of Nations.
Warren G. Harding
Years in office: 1921-1923 & Key achievements: Teapot Dome scandal, Washington Naval Conference.
Calvin Coolidge
Years in office: 1923-1929 & Key achievements: Tax cuts, Kellogg-Briand Pact, Roaring Twenties economy.
Herbert Hoover
Years in office: 1929-1933 & Key achievements: Great Depression, Hoover Dam, Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Years in office: 1933-1945 & Key achievements: New Deal, World War II leadership, elected to four terms.
Harry S. Truman
Years in office: 1945-1953 & Key achievements: Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine, atomic bombing of Japan.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Years in office: 1953-1961 & Key achievements: Interstate Highway System, ended the Korean War, initiated NASA.
John F. Kennedy
Years in office: 1961-1963 & Key achievements: Cuban Missile Crisis, New Frontier, launched the space race.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Years in office: 1963-1969 & Key achievements: Civil Rights Act of 1964, Great Society, escalation of the Vietnam War.
Richard Nixon
Years in office: 1969-1974 & Key achievements: Opening of China, Environmental Protection Agency, resigned due to Watergate scandal.
Gerald Ford
Years in office: 1974-1977 & Key achievements: Pardoned Richard Nixon, Helsinki Accords, ended Vietnam War.
Jimmy Carter
Years in office: 1977-1981 & Key achievements: Camp David Accords, energy conservation, Iran hostage crisis.
Ronald Reagan
Years in office: 1981-1989 & Key achievements: Reaganomics, end of the Cold War, Strategic Defense Initiative.
George H. W. Bush
Years in office: 1989-1993 & Key achievements: Gulf War, Americans with Disabilities Act, fall of the Berlin Wall.
Bill Clinton
Years in office: 1993-2001 & Key achievements: Welfare reform, Balanced Budget Act, second President to be impeached.
George W. Bush
Years in office: 2001-2009 & Key achievements: Responses to 9/11, initiating the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, tax cuts.
Barack Obama
Years in office: 2009-2017 & Key achievements: Affordable Care Act, recovery from the Great Recession, Osama bin Laden killed.
Donald Trump
Years in office: 2017-2021 & Key achievements: Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, First Step Act, appointed three Supreme Court Justices.
Joe Biden
Years in office: 2021-present & Key achievements: American Rescue Plan, COVID-19 vaccination campaign, infrastructure investment.
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