U.S. Presidents

George Washington took his Oath of Office

Apr 30, 1789

The first president is sworn into office on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York.

John Adams Becomes President

Mar 4, 1797

Won against Thomas Jefferson

President Washington Dies

Dec 14, 1799

Washington enjoyed less than three years of retirement at Mount Vernon, for he died of a throat infection.

Thomas Jefferson Becomes President

Mar 4, 1801

James Madison Becomes President

Mar 4, 1809

James Monroe Becomes President

Mar 4, 1817

John Quincy Adams Becomes President

Mar 4, 1825

Andrew Jackson Becomes Presidenrt

Mar 4, 1829

Martin Van Buren Becomes President

Mar 4, 1837

William Henry Harrison

Mar 4, 1841

Death of William Henry Harrison

Apr 4, 1841

After 32 days in office the ninth president dies of pnemonia, causing a problem with the 25th Ammendment.

John Tyler Becomes President

Apr 4, 1841

James K. Polk Becomes President

Mar 4, 1845

Zachary Taylor Becomes President

Mar 4, 1849

Millard Filmore Becomes President

Jul 9, 1850

Becomes President after the death of Zachary Taylor who only served 16 months.

Franklin Pierce Becomes President

Mar 4, 1853

Andrew Jackson Becomes President

Apr 15, 1856

James Buchanan

Mar 4, 1857

Abraham Lincoln Becomes President

Mar 4, 1861

Lincoln Delievers the Gettysburg Address

Nov 9, 1863

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4Bojjx_DewHe defined the war as an effort dedicated to these principles of liberty and equality for all. The emancipation of slaves was now part of the national war effort. The future of democracy would be assured, that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Lincoln concluded that the Civil War had a profound objective: a new birth of freedom in the nation.

Lincoln Assassinated

Apr 14, 1865

The President was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth while attending a play at Ford Theatre.

Lincoln Pronounced Dead

Apr 15, 1865

Lincoln dies at a hospital.

Andrew Jackson Becomes President

Apr 15, 1865

Ulysses S. Grant Becomes President

Mar 4, 1869

Rutherford B. Hayes Becomes President

Mar 4, 1877

James A. Garfield Becomes President

Mar 4, 1881

Chester A. Arthur Becomes President

Sep 19, 1881

Grover Cleveland Becomes President

Mar 4, 1893

William McKinley Becomes President

Mar 4, 1897

Theodore Roosevelt Become President

Sep 14, 1901

William Howard Taft Becomes President

Mar 4, 1909

Woodrow Wilson Becomes President

Mar 4, 1913

Warren G. Harding Becomes President

Mar 4, 1921

Calvin Coolidge Becomes President

Aug 2, 1923

Herbert Hoover Becomes President

Mar 4, 1929

Franklin D. Roosevelt Becomes President

Mar 4, 1933

Harry S. Truman Becomes President

Apr 12, 1945

Dwight D. Eisenhower Becomes President

Jan 20, 1953

John F. Kennedy Becomes President

Jan 20, 1961

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouRbkBAOGEw

JFK is assassinated in Dallas, Texas

Nov 22, 1963

The president was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald.

Lydon B. Johnson Becomes President

Nov 22, 1963

Sworn into office aboard Air Force One.

Richard Nixon Becomes President

Jan 20, 1969

Gerald Ford Becomes President

Aug 9, 1974

Jimmy Carter Becomes President

Jan 20, 1977

Ronald Regan Becomes President

Jan 20, 1981

George H. W. Bush Becomes President

Jan 20, 1989

Bill Clinton Becomes President

Jan 20, 1993

George W. Bush Becomes President

Jan 20, 2001

Barack Obama Becomes President

Jan 20, 2009