List of United States Presidents by political affiliation

List of United States Presidents by political affiliation

This article is intended to be a comprehensive list of all presidents, grouped by political party.

Democratic

Fourteen members of the United States Democratic Party have served as president:

# Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)
# Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)
# James K. Polk (1845-1849)
# Franklin Pierce (1853-1857)
# James Buchanan (1857-1861)
# Andrew Johnson (1865-1869)
# Grover Cleveland (1885-1889), (1893-1897)
# Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)
# Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)
# Harry S. Truman (1945-1953)
# John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)
# Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969)
# Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)
# Bill Clinton (1993-2001)

As of January 2009, Democratic presidents will have governed for 84 years in total.

Republican

Eighteen members of the United States Republican Party have served as president:

# Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)
# Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)
# Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881)
# James A. Garfield (1881)
# Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885)
# Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893)
# William McKinley (1897-1901)
# Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)
# William Howard Taft (1909-1913)
# Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)
# Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)
# Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)
# Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)
# Richard Nixon (1969-1974)
# Gerald Ford (1974-1977)
# Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)
# George H. W. Bush (1989-1993)
# George W. Bush (2001-present)

As of January 2009, Republican presidents will have governed for 88 years in total.

Whig

Four presidents were members of the United States Whig Party:

# William Henry Harrison (1841)
# John Tyler (see note) (1841-1845)
# Zachary Taylor (1849-1850)
# Millard Fillmore (1850-1853)

Note: Although Tyler was elected vice president on the Whig ticket, his policies soon proved to be opposed to most of the Whig agenda, and he was expelled from the party in 1841, a few months after taking office.

As of January 2009, Whig presidents had governed for 8 years in total.

Democratic-Republican

Four presidents were members of the United States Democratic-Republican Party:

#Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)
#James Madison (1809-1817)
#James Monroe (1817-1825)
#John Quincy Adams (1825-1829)

As of January 2009, Democratic-Republican presidents had governed for 28 years in total.

Federalist

John Adams (1797-1801) was the only president elected as a member of the United States Federalist Party.

As of January 2009, Federalist presidents had governed for 4 years in total.

No affiliation

George Washington (1789-1797) is currently the only president to have been elected without any official endorsement by a political party. Generally speaking, Washington's policies reflected a moderate Federalist agenda.

As of January 2009, presidents with no official party affiliation had governed for 8 years in total.

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