List of Presidents of the United States by political affiliation

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

Summary

Party	Number of Presidents	Total Days in Office
Republican	18	32,138
Democratic	15	31,025
Democratic-Republican	4	10,227
Whig	4	4,383
Federalist	1	1,460
Non-Affiliated	1	2,865

Republican

Eighteen members of the: Republican Party have served as president, governing for 88 years in total. Four served two full terms and five served one full term. Three were elected twice but either died or were assassinated (Abraham Lincoln and William McKinley) or resigned (Richard Nixon) during their second term. Two were elected once but died before completing their first term (James A. Garfield and Warren G. Harding). Four succeeded to the presidency following the death or resignation of their predecessor: two (Theodore Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge) were subsequently elected to a full term; two (Chester A. Arthur and Gerald Ford) were not.

Name	Term Began	Term Ended	Time in Office
Abraham Lincoln^{[n 1]}	March 4, 1861	April 15, 1865	4 years, 1 month and 11 days
Ulysses S. Grant	March 4, 1869	March 4, 1877	8 years
Rutherford B. Hayes	March 4, 1877	March 4, 1881	4 years
James A. Garfield	March 4, 1881	September 19, 1881	6 months and 15 days
Chester A. Arthur	September 19, 1881	March 4, 1885	3 years, 5 months and 13 days
Benjamin Harrison	March 4, 1889	March 4, 1893	4 years
William McKinley	March 4, 1897	September 14, 1901	4 years, 6 months and 10 days
Theodore Roosevelt	September 14, 1901	March 4, 1909	7 years, 5 months and 18 days
William Howard Taft	March 4, 1909	March 4, 1913	4 years
Warren G. Harding	March 4, 1921	August 2, 1923	2 years, 4 months and 29 days
Calvin Coolidge	August 2, 1923	March 4, 1929	5 years, 7 months and 2 days
Herbert Hoover	March 4, 1929	March 4, 1933	4 years
Dwight D. Eisenhower	January 20, 1953	January 20, 1961	8 years
Richard Nixon	January 20, 1969	August 9, 1974	5 years, 6 months and 20 days
Gerald Ford	August 9, 1974	January 20, 1977	2 years, 5 months and 11 days
Ronald Reagan	January 20, 1981	January 20, 1989	8 years
George H.W. Bush	January 20, 1989	January 20, 1993	4 years
George W. Bush	January 20, 2001	January 20, 2009	8 years

Democratic

Fifteen members of the Democratic Party have served as president, governing for a total of 85 years. Five served at least two full terms (Franklin Roosevelt was elected four times; he served three full terms and died during his fourth) and five served one full term. Three succeeded to the presidency after the death of their predecessor (of which two were subsequently elected to a full term [i.e., Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson] ) and one, Andrew Johnson, did not seek election). John F. Kennedy was assassinated before his first term was finished and Barack Obama is currently in office (incumbent).

Name	Term Began	Term Ended	Time in Office
Andrew Jackson	March 4, 1829	March 4, 1837	8 years
Martin Van Buren	March 4, 1837	March 4, 1841	4 years
James K. Polk	March 4, 1845	March 4, 1849	4 years
Franklin Pierce	March 4, 1853	March 4, 1857	4 years
James Buchanan	March 4, 1857	March 4, 1861	4 years
Andrew Johnson^{[n 2]}	April 15, 1865	March 4, 1869	3 years, 10 months and 17 days
Grover Cleveland	March 4, 1885	March 4, 1889	4 years
Grover Cleveland	March 4, 1893	March 4, 1897	4 years
Woodrow Wilson	March 4, 1913	March 4, 1921	8 years
Franklin D. Roosevelt	March 4, 1933	April 12, 1945	12 years, 1 month and 8 days
Harry S. Truman	April 12, 1945	January 20, 1953	7 years, 9 months and 8 days
John F. Kennedy	January 20, 1961	November 22, 1963	2 years, 10 months and 2 days
Lyndon B. Johnson	November 22, 1963	January 20, 1969	5 years, 1 month and 29 days
Jimmy Carter	January 20, 1977	January 20, 1981	4 years
Bill Clinton	January 20, 1993	January 20, 2001	8 years
Barack Obama	January 20, 2009	(Still in office)	(Still in office)

Democratic-Republican

Four members of the United States Democratic-Republican Party have governed for a total of 28 years:

Name	Term Began	Term Ended	Time in Office
Thomas Jefferson	March 4, 1801	March 4, 1809	8 years
James Madison	March 4, 1809	March 4, 1817	8 years
James Monroe	March 4, 1817	March 4, 1825	8 years
John Quincy Adams	March 4, 1825	March 4, 1829	4 years

Whig

Four members of the United States Whig Party have governed for a total of 8 years:

Name	Term Began	Term Ended	Time in Office
William Henry Harrison	March 4, 1841	April 4, 1841	1 month
John Tyler^{[n 3]}	April 4, 1841	March 4, 1845	3 years and 11 months
Zachary Taylor	March 4, 1849	July 9, 1850	1 year, 4 months and 5 days
Millard Fillmore	July 9, 1850	March 4, 1853	2 years, 7 months and 23 days

Federalist

	Name	Term Began	Term Ended	Time in Office
	John Adams	March 4, 1797	March 4, 1801	4 years

Non-affiliated

	Name	Term Began	Term Ended	Time in Office
	George Washington	April 30, 1789	March 4, 1797	7 years, 10 months and 2 days

Other Parties

National Union Party: The name used by the Republican Party for their national ticket in the 1864 presidential election. Both Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson associated with the National Union Party during the 1864 election, and Andrew Johnson remained a member until he joined the Democratic Party at the end of his only term. Lincoln and Johnson served as President while members of the National Union party for 4 years.

Footnotes

↑ Lincoln served his first term (from 1861–1865) as a member of the Republican Party, but ran for his second term as a member of the National Union Party and served only a short part of his second term in 1865 before being assassinated.
↑ Andrew Johnson did not identify with the two main parties of Democrats and Republicans, though he did try for the Democratic nomination in 1868, and so while President he attempted to build a party of loyalists under the National Union label. Asked in 1868 why he did not become a Democrat, he said, "It is true I am asked why don't I join the Democratic Party. Why don't they join me ... if I have administered the office of president so well?" This failure to build a new National Union Party made Johnson effectively an independent.
↑ Although John 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 President.

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