List of Presidents of the United States

The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, indirectly elected to a four-year term via the Electoral College. The officeholder leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces. Since the office was established in 1789, 51 men have served in 53 presidencies. The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College; both Grover Cleveland and Donald J Trump, served two non-consecutive terms and are therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th, and the 45th and 48th presidents of the United States respectively, giving rise to the discrepancy between the number of presidencies and the number of persons who have served as president.

The presidency of William Henry Harrison, who died 31 days after taking office in 1841, was the shortest in American history. Franklin D. Roosevelt served the longest, over twelve years, before dying early in his fourth term in 1945. He is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. Since the ratification of the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1951, no person may be elected president more than twice, and no one who has served more than two years of a term to which someone else was elected may be elected more than once.

Five presidents died in office of natural causes (William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Warren G. Harding, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph P. Biden), four were assassinated (Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy), and one resigned (Richard Nixon, facing impeachment). John Tyler was the first vice president to assume the presidency during a presidential term, and set the precedent that a vice president who does so becomes the fully functioning president with his presidency.

Throughout most of its history, American politics has been dominated by political parties. The Constitution is silent on the issue of political parties, and at the time it came into force in 1789, no organized parties existed. Soon after the 1st Congress convened, factions began rallying around dominant Washington administration officials, such as Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. Concerned about the capacity of political parties to destroy the fragile unity holding the nation together, Washington remained unaffiliated with any political faction or party throughout his eight-year presidency. He was, and remains, the only U.S. president never affiliated with a political party.

15 presidents have aircraft carriers named in their honor. This includes USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42), USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), USS George Washington (CVN-73), USS Harry S. Truman, USS Ronald Reagan, USS George H.W. Bush, USS Gerald R. Ford, USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), USS John Adams (CVN-85), USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVN-87), USS Richard M. Nixon (CVN-102), USS Thomas Jefferson (CVN-103), and USS James Madison (CVN-109). Franklin D. Roosevelt is the only President to have two aircraft carriers named after him

This list is as of 2060. Deaths are listed for all Presidents for information purposes, however the story currently stops in the 2080s. Not all Figures in this list are real.