US Presidents: Classified
This page lists every US president, and their respective vice-presidents, in chronological order. It also gives their ordinal numbers and dates,
and the party they represented (where appropriate).
A common question is to ask the middle name of a given American president. As far as I can establish, the names given here are their full names;
in other words, if I don't give a middle name, he didn't have one. (This doesn't apply to vice–presidents.)
The Elections section lists the runners–up in every US presidential election, back to 1928. I think you're most unlikely
to get asked about anything earlier than this.
For other details about individual presidents, see US Presidents: Details. You can also find their wives'
names (the most relevant ones, anyway) in People: Politicians' Families.
No. |
Years |
|
Name |
Party |
|
Vice president |
1 | 1789–97 |
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George Washington | |
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John Adams |
2 | 1797–1801 |
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John Adams | Fed |
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Thomas Jefferson |
3 | 1801–9 |
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Thomas Jefferson |
Dem–Rep |
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1801-5: Aaron Burr |
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1805–9: George Clinton |
4 | 1809–17 |
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James Madison |
Dem–Rep |
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1809–12: George Clinton |
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1813–14: Elbridge Gerry |
5 | 1817–25 |
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James Monroe | Dem–Rep |
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Daniel D. Tompkins |
6 | 1825–9 |
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John Quincy Adams | Dem–Rep |
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John C. Calhoun |
7 | 1829–37 |
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Andrew Jackson |
Dem |
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1829–32: John C. Calhoun |
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1833–7: Martin van Buren |
8 | 1837–41 |
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Martin van Buren | Dem |
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Richard M. Johnson |
9 | 1841 |
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William Henry Harrison | Whig |
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John Tyler |
10 | 1841–5 |
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John Tyler | Whig |
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None |
11 | 1845–9 |
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James Knox Polk | Dem |
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George M. Dallas |
12 | 1849–50 |
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Zachary Taylor | Whig |
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Millard Fillmore |
13 | 1850–3 |
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Millard Fillmore | Whig |
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None |
14 | 1853–7 |
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Franklin Pierce | Dem |
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1853: William R. King |
15 | 1857–61 |
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James Buchanan | Dem |
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John C. Breckenridge |
16 | 1861–5 |
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Abraham Lincoln | Rep |
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1861–5: Hannibal Hamlin |
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1865: Andrew Johnson |
17 | 1865–9 |
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Andrew Johnson | Dem–Nat |
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None |
18 | 1869–77 |
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Ulysses Simpson Grant | Rep |
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1869–73: Schuyler Colfax |
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1873–5: Henry Wilson |
19 | 1877–81 |
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Rutherford Birchard Hayes | Rep |
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William A. Wheeler |
20 | 1881 |
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James Abram Garfield | Rep |
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Chester A. Arthur |
21 | 1881–5 |
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Chester Alan Arthur | Rep |
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None |
22 | 1885–9 |
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Stephen Grover Cleveland | Dem |
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1885: Thomas A. Hendricks |
23 | 1889–93 |
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Benjamin Harrison | Rep |
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Levi P. Morton |
24 | 1893–7 |
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Stephen Grover Cleveland | Dem |
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Adlai E. Stevenson |
25 | 1897–1901 |
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William McKinley | Dem |
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1897–9: Garret A. Hobart |
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1901: Theodore Roosevelt |
26 | 1901–9 |
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Theodore Roosevelt | Rep |
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1901–5: None |
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1905–9: Charles W. Fairbanks |
27 | 1909–13 |
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William Howard Taft | Rep |
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1909–12: James S. Sherman |
28 | 1913–21 |
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Thomas Woodrow Wilson | Dem |
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Thomas R. Marshall |
29 | 1921–3 |
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Warren Gamaliel Harding | Rep |
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Calvin Coolidge |
30 | 1923–9 |
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Calvin Coolidge | Rep |
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1925–9: Charles G. Dawes |
31 | 1929–33 |
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Herbert Clark Hoover | Rep |
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Charles Curtis |
32 | 1933–45 |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
Dem |
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1933–41: John N. Garner |
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1941–5: Henry A. Wallace |
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1945: Harry S Truman |
33 | 1945–53 |
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Harry S Truman | Dem |
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1949–53: Alben W. Barkley |
34 | 1953–61 |
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Dwight David Eisenhower | Rep |
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Richard M. Nixon |
35 | 1961–3 |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy | Dem |
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Lyndon B. Johnson |
36 | 1963–9 |
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Lyndon Baines Johnson | Dem |
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1965–9: Hubert H. Humphrey |
37 | 1969–74 |
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Richard Milhous Nixon | Rep |
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1969–73: Spiro T. Agnew |
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1973–4: Gerald R. Ford |
38 | 1974–7 |
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Gerald Rudolph Ford | Rep |
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Nelson A. Rockefeller |
39 | 1977–81 |
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James Earl Carter | Dem |
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Walter F. Mondale |
40 | 1981–9 |
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Ronald Wilson Reagan | Rep |
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George H. W. Bush |
41 | 1989–93 |
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George Herbert Walker Bush | Rep |
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J. Danforth Quayle III |
42 | 1993–2001 |
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William Jefferson Clinton | Dem |
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Al Gore |
43 | 2001–9 |
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George Walker Bush | Rep |
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Dick Cheney |
44 | 2009–17 |
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Barack Hussein Obama | Dem |
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Joe Biden |
45 | 2017–21 |
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Donald John Trump | Rep |
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Michael Richard Pence |
46 | 2021 to date |
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Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. | Dem |
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Kamala Devi Harris |
Elections
This section lists the runners–up, and their running mates, for every US presidential election back to 1928 – in reverse
chronological order.
It also includes selected other candidates – where I think they might come up in UK quizzes.
In practice, you'll rarely get asked about any of these apart from the most recent one (or possibly the first election for a president
who's in his – or her – second term). At the very least, I think it's safe to assume that the further down this table
you go, the less likely you are to get asked it. I've only gone as far as I have because ... well, once you've started something, you
might as well have a decent shot at it!
Year |
Winner |
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Runner–up |
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Running mate |
2020 | Biden / Harris |
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Donald Trump |
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Mike Pence |
2016 | Trump / Pence |
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Hillary Clinton |
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Tim Kaine |
2012 | Obama / Biden |
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Mitt Romney |
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Paul Ryan |
2008 | Obama / Biden |
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John McCain |
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Sarah Palin |
2004 |
Bush / Cheney |
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John Kerry |
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John Edwards |
2000 |
Bush / Cheney |
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Al Gore |
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Joe Lieberman |
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Ralph Nader (Green) |
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Matt Gonzalez |
1996 |
Clinton / Gore |
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Bob Dole |
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Jack Kemp |
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Ross Perot (Reform) |
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Pat Choate |
1992 |
Clinton / Gore |
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George H. W. Bush |
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Dan Quayle |
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Ross Perot (no party) |
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James Stockdale |
1988 |
Bush / Quayle |
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Michael Dukakis |
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Lloyd Bentsen |
1984 |
Reagan / Bush |
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Walter Mondale |
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Geraldine Ferraro |
1980 |
Reagan / Bush |
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Jimmy Carter |
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Walter Mondale |
1976 |
Carter / Mondale |
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Gerald Ford |
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Bob Dole |
1972 |
Nixon / Agnew |
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George McGovern |
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Sargent Shriver |
1968 |
Nixon / Agnew |
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Hubert Humphrey |
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Edmund Muskey |
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George Wallace (American Independent) |
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Curtis LeMay |
1964 |
Johnson / Humphrey |
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Barry Goldwater |
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William E. Miller |
1960 |
Kennedy / Johnson |
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Richard Nixon |
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Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. |
1956 |
Eisenhower / Nixon |
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Adlai Stevenson |
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Estes Kefauver |
1952 |
Eisenhower / Nixon |
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Adlai Stevenson |
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John Sparker |
1948 |
Truman / Berkeley |
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Thomas E. Dewey |
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Earl Warren |
1944 |
Roosevelt / Truman |
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Thomas E. Dewey |
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John W. Bricker |
1940 |
Roosevelt / Wallace |
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Wendell Wilkie |
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Charles L. McNary |
1936 |
Roosevelt / Garner |
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Alf Landon |
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Frank Knox |
1932 |
Roosevelt / Garner |
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Herbert Hoover |
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Charles Curtis |
1928 |
Hoover / Curtis |
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Al Smith |
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Joseph T. Robinson |
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