Presidents Timeline

George Washington

Apr 30, 1789

Dates: Apr. 30, 1789 - March 4, 1797
VP: John Adams
Political Party: Independent Polotician
Policy: assumed control of treaty negotiations with a hostile power
Event: Whitehouse burned down
Works Cited: http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/presidents-united-states-table.html

Top Presidents

Period: Apr 30, 1789 to Mar 24, 2016

James Monroe

Mar 4, 1817

Dates: March 4, 1817 – March 4, 1825
VP: Daniel D. Tompkins
Party: Democratic-Republican
Policy: Missouri Comprimise
Fact: Monroe’s first presidential term was coined the Era of Good Feelings
Cited: http://www.biography.com/news/james-monroe-biography-facts

Abraham Lincoln

Mar 4, 1861

Dates: March 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865
VP: Hannibal Hamlin; Andrew Johnson
Party: National Union
Policy: 13th amenment that ended slavery
Fact: was shot in the head and killed
Cited: http://millercenter.org/president/biography/lincoln-domestic-affairs

Rutherford B. Hayes

Mar 4, 1877

Dates: March 4, 1877 – March 4, 1881
VP: William Wheeler
Party: Whig
Policy: began the efforts that led to civil service reform
Fact: HE WAS WOUNDED MULTIPLE TIMES DURING THE CIVIL WAR.
Cited: http://mentalfloss.com/article/69848/7-presidential-facts-about-rutherford-b-hayes

Grover Cleveland

Mar 4, 1885

Dates: March 4, 1885 – March 4, 1889; March 4, 1893 – March 4, 1897
VP: Thomas Hendricks
Party: Demcratic
Policy: the repeal of the Bland-Allison Silver Purchase Act of 1878 and tariff reduction
Fact: 22nd and 24th president
Cited: http://millercenter.org/president/biography/cleveland-domestic-affairs

Woodrow Wilson

Mar 4, 1913

Dates: March 4, 1913 – March 4, 1921
VP: Thomas R. Marshall
Party: Democratic
Policy: Wilson created the Federal Reserve Bank to make the U.S. banking system more responsive to national economic conditions
Fact: Wilson was responsible for the longest list of reforms ever seen in the U.S. until Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal a generation later.
Cited: http://www.woodrowwilsonhouse.org/domestic-policy-achievements

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Mar 4, 1933

Dates: March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945
VP: John Nance Garner; Henry A. Wallace; Harry S. Truman
Party: Democratic
Policy: New Deal
Fact: Elected 4 times
Cited: http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/facts/

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Jan 20, 1953

Dates: January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961
VP: Richard Nixon
COS: Sherman Adams
Party: Republican
Policy: Contain Communism
Fact: Eisenhower opposed using nuclear weapons on Japan
Cited: http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2015/10/10-fascinating-facts-on-president-dwight-d-eisenhowers-birthday/

George W. Bush

Jan 20, 2001

Dates: January 20, 2001 – January 20, 2009
VP: Dick Cheney
COS: Joshua Bolten
Party: Republican
Policy: legislation outlawing "partial birth" abortion, cut federal funds for family planning services and ban overseas aid for abortion services
Facts: Pilot in the Texas Air National Guard
Cited: http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/07/us/george-w-bush-fast-facts/

Barack Obama

Jan 20, 2009

Dates: January 20, 2009 – Present
VP: Joe Biden
COS: Denis McDonough
Party: Democratic
Policy: a plan to revive the economy; provide affordable, accessible health care to all
Fact: Lived in Indonesia with mother and stepfather Lolo Soetoro
Cited: http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/26/us/barack-obama---fast-facts/