In a discussion about Obama’s State of the Union Address last night, my roommates and I began talking about previous American Presidents.  Albeit embarrassing, I am the first to admit that my memory sucks and I have a ridiculous problem remembering the order of presidents.  How many times do you really need to talk about who was the president after Carter or who Nixon’s VP was?  Probably not many.  That said, it’s still a good thing to know.  So, here we go…

Today’s History Lesson: Chronological List of American Presidents

1 George Washington (1789-97)

2 John Adams, 1797-1801 (Federalist)

3 Thomas Jefferson, 1801-9 (Democratic-Republican)

4 James Madison, 1809-17 (Democratic-Republican)

5 James Monroe, 1817-25 (Democratic-Republican)

6 John Quincy Adams, 1825-29 (Democratic-Republican)

7 Andrew Jackson, 1829-37 (Democrat)

8 Martin Van Buren, 1837-41 (Democrat)

9 William Henry Harrison, 1841 (Whig)

10 John Tyler, 1841-45 (Whig)

11 James Knox Polk, 1845-49 (Democrat)

12 Zachary Taylor, 1849-50 (Whig)

13 Millard Fillmore, 1850-53 (Whig)

14 Franklin Pierce, 1853-57 (Democrat)

15 James Buchanan, 1857-61 (Democrat)

16 Abraham Lincoln, 1861-65 (Republican)

17 Andrew Johnson, 1865-69 (Democrat/National Union)

18 Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1869-77 (Republican)

19 Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1877-81 (Republican)

20 James Abram Garfield, 1881 (Republican)

21 Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-85 (Republican)

22 Grover Cleveland, 1885-89 (Democrat)

23 Benjamin Harrison, 1889-93 (Republican)

24 Grover Cleveland, 1893-97 (Democrat)

25 William McKinley, 1897-1901 (Republican)

26 Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-9 (Republican)

27 William Howard Taft, 1909-13 (Republican)

28 Woodrow Wilson, 1913-21 (Democrat)

29 Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-23 (Republican)

30 Calvin Coolidge, 1923-29 (Republican)

31 Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-33 (Republican)

32 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-45 (Democrat)

33 Harry S Truman, 1945-53 (Democrat)

34 Dwight David Eisenhower, 1953-61 (Republican)

35 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-63 (Democrat)

36 Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-69 (Democrat)

37 Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-74 (Republican)

38 Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr , 1974-77 (Republican)

39 James Earl Carter, 1977-81 (Democrat)

40 Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-89 (Republican)

41 George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993 (Republican)

42 William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001(Democrat)

43 George W. Bush, 2001-2009 (Republican)

44 Barack Obama, 2009- (Democrat)