# Preses o the Unitit States

| Preses o the Unitit States
 President of the United States |
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| Presidential Seal |
| Presidential Staundart |
| **Incumbent Donald Trump** since 20 Januar 2025 (2025-01-20) |
| Executive branch o the U.S. Govrenment Executive Office o the Preses |
| Style | Mr. Preses/Madam Preses (Informal) The Honorable (Formal) His Excellency (diplomatic, ootside the U.S.) |
| Member o | Cabinet Domestic Policy Cooncil Naitional Economic Cooncil Naitional Security Cooncil |
| Residence | The White Hoose |
| Seat | Washington, D.C. |
| Appynter | Electoral College |
| Term length | Fower yearsrenewable ance |
| Constitutin instrument | Unitit States Constitution |
| Furmation | March 4, 1789 |
| First haulder | George Washington Aprile 30, 1789 |
| Salary | $400,000 annually (2001-) |
| Wabsteid | The White Hoose |

The **Preses o the Unitit States o Americae** (**POTUS**) is the heid o state an heid o govrenment o the Unitit States. The preses leads the executive branch o the federal govrenment an is the commander-in-chief o the Unitit States Airmed Forces. The person in this poseetion is the kintra's leader o whilk haes the lairgest economy an the lairgest militar, wi command authority ower the lairgest active nuclear arsenal. The preses is afttimes describit as the maist pouerfu person in the warld.

## Leet o Preses o the Unitit States

| # | Name | Took Office | Left Office | Party | Vice President(s) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 |  George Washington | 1789 | 1797 | *Nae party* | John Adams |
| 2 |  John Adams | 1797 | 1801 | Federalist | Thomas Jefferson |
| 3 |  Thomas Jefferson | 1801 | 1809 | Democratic-Republican | Aaron Burr an George Clinton |
| 4 |  James Madison | 1809 | 1817 | Democratic-Republican | Elbridge Gerry |
| 5 |  James Monroe | 1817 | 1825 | Democratic-Republican | Daniel D. Tompkins |
| 6 |  John Quincy Adams | 1825 | 1829 | Democratic-Republican | John C. Calhoun |
| 7 |  Andrew Jackson | 1829 | 1837 | Democratic | John C. Calhoun an Martin Van Buren |
| 8 |  Martin Van Buren | 1837 | 1841 | Democratic | Richard Mentor Johnson |
| 9 |  William Henry Harrison | 1841 | 1841 | Whig | John Tyler |
| 10 |  John Tyler | 1841 | 1845 | Whig | *none* |
| 11 |  James K. Polk | 1845 | 1849 | Democratic | George M. Dallas |
| 12 |  Zachary Taylor | 1849 | 1850 | Whig | Millard Fillmore |
| 13 |  Millard Fillmore | 1850 | 1853 | Whig | *none* |
| 14 |  Franklin Pierce | 1853 | 1857 | Democratic | William R. King |
| 15 |  James Buchanan | 1857 | 1861 | Democratic | John C. Breckinridge |
| 16 |  Abraham Lincoln | 1861 | 1865 | Republican | Hannibal Hamlin an Andrew Johnson |
| 17 | Andrew Johnson | 1865 | 1869 | Democratic | *none* |
| 18 |  Ulysses S. Grant | 1869 | 1877 | Republican | Schuyler Colfax an Henry Wilson |
| 19 |  Rutherford B. Hayes | 1877 | 1881 | Republican | William A. Wheeler |
| 20 |  James Garfield | 1881 | 1881 | Republican | Chester A. Arthur |
| 21 |  Chester A. Arthur | 1881 | 1885 | Republican | *none* |
| 22 |  Grover Cleveland | 1885 | 1889 | Democratic | Thomas A. Hendricks |
| 23 |  Benjamin Harrison | 1889 | 1893 | Republican | Levi P. Morton |
| 24 |  Grover Cleveland | 1893 | 1897 | Democratic | Adlai E. Stevenson |
| 25 |  William McKinley | 1897 | 1901 | Republican | Garret A. Hobart syne Theodore Roosevelt |
| 26 |  Theodore Roosevelt | 1901 | 1909 | Republican | *None* then Charles W. Fairbanks |
| 27 |  William Howard Taft | 1909 | 1913 | Republican | James S. Sherman |
| 28 |  Woodrow Wilson | 1913 | 1921 | Democratic | Thomas R. Marshall |
| 29 |  Warren G. Harding | 1921 | 1923 | Republican | Calvin Coolidge |
| 30 |  Calvin Coolidge | 1923 | 1929 | Republican | *None* then Charles G. Dawes |
| 31 |  Herbert Hoover | 1929 | 1933 | Republican | Charles Curtis |
| 32 |  Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1933 | 1945 | Democratic | John Nance Garner an Henry A. Wallace an Harry S. Truman |
| 33 |  Harry S. Truman | 1945 | 1953 | Democratic | *None* then Alben W. Barkley |
| 34 |  Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1953 | 1961 | Republican | Richard Nixon |
| 35 |  John F. Kennedy | 1961 | 1963 | Democratic | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| 36 |  Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963 | 1969 | Democratic | *Nane* syne Hubert H. Humphrey |
| 37 |  Richard Nixon | 1969 | 1974 | Republican | Spiro Agnew syne *Nane* syne Gerald Ford |
| 38 |  Gerald Ford | 1974 | 1977 | Republican | *Nane* syne Nelson Rockefeller |
| 39 |  Jimmy Carter | 1977 | 1981 | Democratic | Walter F. Mondale |
| 40 |  Ronald Reagan | 1981 | 1989 | Republican | George H. W. Bush |
| 41 |  George H. W. Bush | 1989 | 1993 | Republican | James Danforth Quayle III |
| 42 |  Bill Clinton | 1993 | 2001 | Democratic | Al Gore |
| 43 |  George W. Bush | 2001 | 2009 | Republican | Richard B. Cheney |
| 44 |  Barack Obama | 2009 | 2017 | Democratic | Joe Biden |
| 45 |  Donald J. Trump | 2017 | 2021 | Republican | Michael R. Pence |
| 46 |  Joe Biden | 2021 | 2025 | Democratic | Kamala Harris |
| 47 |  Donald J. Trump | 2025 |  | Republican | JD Vance |