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The U.S. Government for Kids and Teens: Presidents and VPs

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Presidents and Vice Presidents

Term

President

Vice President

1789-1797 George Washington John Adams
1979-1801 John Adams Thomas Jefferson
1801-1809 Thomas Jefferson Aaron Burr/George Clinton
1809-1817 James Madison George Clinton/Elbridge Gerry
1817-1825 James Monroe Daniel Tompkins
1825-1829 John Quincy Adams John Calhoun
1829-1837

Andrew Jackson

John Calhoun/Martin Van Buren
1837-1841 Martin Van Buren Richard Mentor Johnson
1841-1841 William Henry Harrison John Tyler
1841-1845 John Tyler Vacant
1845-1849 James K. Polk George M. Dallas
1849-1850 Zachary Taylor Millard Fillmore
1850-1853 Millard Fillmore Vacant
1853-1857 Franklin Pierce William R. King/Vacant
1857-1861 James Buchanan John C. Breckinridge
1861-1865 Abraham Lincoln Hannibal Hamlin/Andrew Johnson
1865-1869 Andrew Johnson Vacant
1869-1877 Ulysses S. Grant Schuler Colfax/Henry Wilson/Vacant
1977-1881 Rutherford B. Hayes William A. Wheeler
1881-1881 James A. Garfield Chester A. Arthur
1881-1885 Chester A. Arthur Vacant
1885-1889 Grover Cleveland Thomas A. Hendricks/Vacant
1889-1893 Benjamin Harrison Levi P. Morton
1893-1897 Grover Cleveland Adlai Stevenson I
1897-1901 William McKinley Garret Hobart/Vacant/Theodore Roosevelt
1901-1909 Theodore Roosevelt Vacant/Charles W. Fairbanks
1909-1913 William Howard Taft James S. Sherman/Vacant
1913-1921 Woodrow Wilson Thomas R. Marshall
1921-1923 Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge
1923-1929 Calvin Coolidge Vacant/Charles G. Dawes
1929-1933 Herbert Hoover Charles Curtis
1933-1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt John Nance Garner/Henry A. Wallas/Harry S. Truman
1945-1953 Harry S. Truman Vacant/Alben W. Barkley
1953-1961 Dwight D. Eisenhower Richard Nixon
1961-1963 John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson
1963-1969 Lyndon B. Johnson Vacant/Hubert Humphrey
1969-1974 Richard Nixon Spiro Agnew/Vacant/Gerald Ford
1974-1977 Gerald Ford Vacant/Nelson Rockefeller
1977-1981 Jimmy Carter Walter Mondale
1981-1989 Ronald Reagan George H. W. Bush
1989-1993 George H. W. Bush Dan Quayle
1993-2001 Bill Clinton Al Gore
2001-2009 George W. Bush Dick Cheney
2009-2017 Barack Obama Joe Biden
2017-2021 Donald Trump Mike Pence
2021-2025 Joe Biden Kamala Harris
2025- Donald Trump JD Vance

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