US Presidents Flashcards

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President: John Adams
VP:Thomas Jefferson
Party: Federalist
Term:1, 1797-1801

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President: Thomas Jefferson
VP: Aaron Burr (1st term)
      George Clinton(2nd term)
Party: democratic-republican
Term:2, 1801-1809
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President: James Madison 
VP: George Clinton (d.1812)
       Eldridge Gerry  (d.1814)
Party: democratic republican
Term: 2, 1809-1817
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President: James Monroe
VP: Daniel D. Tompkins
Party: democratic republican
Term: 2, 1817-1825

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President: John Quincy Adams
VP: John C. Calhoun
Party: democratic republican
Term: 1, 1825-1829

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President: George Washington
VP: John Adams
Party:N/A
Term: 2, 1789-1797

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President: Andrew Jackson
VP: John C. Calhoun ( resigned 1832)
        Martin van Buren ( 2nd term)
Party: democrat
Term: 2, 1829-1837
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President: Martin Van Buren
VP: Richard M. Johnson
Party: democratic
Term: 1, 1837-1841

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President: William Henry Harrison 
VP: John Tyler
Party: Whig
Term: 1841
* died 21 days into office
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President: John Tyler
VP: none
Party: Whig
Term:1, 1841-1845

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President: James K. Polk
VP: George M. Dallas
Party: democratic
Term:1, 1845-1849

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President: Zachary Taylor
VP: milliard Fillmore
Party: Whig
Term: 1849-1850

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President: Millard Fillmore
VP: none
Party: Whig
Term: 1, 1850-53

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President: Franklin Pierce
VP: William R.D. King (d. 1853)
Party: democratic
Term: 1, 1853-1857

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President: James Buchanan
VP: John C. Breckinridge
Party: democratic
Term: 1,1857-1861

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President: Abraham Lincoln 
VP: Hannibal Hamlin 1st term
       Andrew Johnson 2nd term
Party: republican 1st term
           Union 2nd term
Term: 1861-1865
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President: Andrew Johnson
VP: none
Party: Union but formerly democratic
Term: 1865-1869

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President: Ulysses S. Grant
VP: Schuyler colfax (1st term)
       Henry Wilson ( 2nd term)
Party: republican
Term: 2, 1869-1877
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President: Rutherford B. Hayes
VP:William A. Wheeler
Party: Republican
Term: 1, 1877-81

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President: James A. Garfield
VP: Chester A Arthur
Party: Republican
Term: 1, 3/4/1881-9/19/1881

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President: Chester A. Arthur
VP: none
Party: Republican
Term: 1881-1885

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President: Grover Cleaveland
VP:Thomas A. Hendricks (D. 1885)
Party: Democratic
Term: 1885-1889

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President: Benjamin Harrison
VP: Levi P. Morton
Party: Republican
Term: 1889-1893

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President: Grover Cleaveland
VP: Adlai E. Stevenson
Party: Democratic
Term: 1893-1897

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President: William McKinley
VP: Garret A. Hobart (1st Term, d. 1899)
       Theodore Roosevelt (2nd term)
Party: Republican
Term: 2, 1897-1901
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President: Theodore Roosevelt
VP: none (1st term)
       Charles W. Fairbanks
Party: Republican
Term: 2, 1901-1909
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President: William Howard Taft
VP: James S. Sherman (d. 1912)
Party: Republican
Term: 1909-1913

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President: Woodrow Wilson
VP: Thomas R. Marshall
Party: Democratic
Term: 1913-1921

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President: Warren G. Harding
VP: Calvin Coolidge
Party: Republican
Term: 1921-1923

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President: Calvin Coolidge
VP: None (1st term)
       Charles G. Dawes(2nd term)
Party:  Republican
Term: 2, 1923-1929
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President: Herbert Hoover
VP: Charles Curtis
Party: Republican
Term: 1, 1929-1933

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President: Franklin D. Roosevelt
VP: John N. Garner 1&2
       Henry A. Wallace 3
       Harry S. Truman
Party: Democratic:
Term: 4, 1933-45
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President: Harry S. Truman
VP: none 1
       Alben W. Barkley 2
Party: democratic
Term: 1945-1953
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President: Dwight D. Eisenhower
VP: Richard M. Nixon
Party: Republican
Term: 1953-1961

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President: John F. Kennedy
VP: Lyndon B. Johnson
Party: Democratic
Term: 1961-1963

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President: Lyndon B. Johnson
VP: none 1st term
       Hubert H. Humphrey, JR 2nd term
Party: Democratic
Term: 1963-1969
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President: Richard M. Nixon
VP: Spiro T. Agnew 1st term, resigned in 1973
       Gerald R. Ford appointed
Party: republican
Term: 2, 1969-1974
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President: Gerald Ford
VP: Nelson A. Rockefeller
Party: Republican
Term: 1974-1977

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President: Jimmy Carter
VP: Walter F. Mondale
Party: Democratic
Term: 1977-1981

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President: Ronald Reagan
VP: George H. Bush
Party: Republican
Term: 2, 1981-1989

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President: George H.W. Bush
VP: J. Danforth Quayle the 3rd
Party: Republican
Term: 1, 1989-1993

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President: Bill Clinton
VP: Albert Gore, JR
Party: Democratic
Term: 1993-2001

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President: George W. Bush
VP: Dick Cheney
Party: Republican
Term: 2001-2009

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President: Barack Obama
VP: Joe Biden
Party: Democratic
Term: 2009-present