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		George Washington			John Adams
2	1797–1801		John Adams	Fed		Thomas Jefferson
3	1801–9		Thomas Jefferson	Dem–Rep		1801-5: Aaron Burr
						1805–9: George Clinton
4	1809–17		James Madison	Dem–Rep		1809–12: George Clinton
						1813–14: Elbridge Gerry
5	1817–25		James Monroe	Dem–Rep		Daniel D. Tompkins
6	1825–9		John Quincy Adams	Dem–Rep		John C. Calhoun
7	1829–37		Andrew Jackson	Dem		1829–32: John C. Calhoun
						1833–7: Martin van Buren
8	1837–41		Martin van Buren	Dem		Richard M. Johnson
9	1841		William Henry Harrison	Whig		John Tyler
10	1841–5		John Tyler	Whig		None
11	1845–9		James Knox Polk	Dem		George M. Dallas
12	1849–50		Zachary Taylor	Whig		Millard Fillmore
13	1850–3		Millard Fillmore	Whig		None
14	1853–7		Franklin Pierce	Dem		1853: William R. King
15	1857–61		James Buchanan	Dem		John C. Breckenridge
16	1861–5		Abraham Lincoln	Rep		1861–5: Hannibal Hamlin
						1865: Andrew Johnson
17	1865–9		Andrew Johnson	Dem–Nat		None
18	1869–77		Ulysses Simpson Grant	Rep		1869–73: Schuyler Colfax
						1873–5: Henry Wilson
19	1877–81		Rutherford Birchard Hayes	Rep		William A. Wheeler
20	1881		James Abram Garfield	Rep		Chester A. Arthur
21	1881–5		Chester Alan Arthur	Rep		None
22	1885–9		Stephen Grover Cleveland	Dem		1885: Thomas A. Hendricks
23	1889–93		Benjamin Harrison	Rep		Levi P. Morton
24	1893–7		Stephen Grover Cleveland	Dem		Adlai E. Stevenson
25	1897–1901		William McKinley	Dem		1897–9: Garret A. Hobart
						1901: Theodore Roosevelt
26	1901–9		Theodore Roosevelt	Rep		1901–5: None
						1905–9: Charles W. Fairbanks
27	1909–13		William Howard Taft	Rep		1909–12: James S. Sherman
28	1913–21		Thomas Woodrow Wilson	Dem		Thomas R. Marshall
29	1921–3		Warren Gamaliel Harding	Rep		Calvin Coolidge
30	1923–9		Calvin Coolidge	Rep		1925–9: Charles G. Dawes
31	1929–33		Herbert Clark Hoover	Rep		Charles Curtis
32	1933–45		Franklin Delano Roosevelt	Dem		1933–41: John N. Garner
						1941–5: Henry A. Wallace
						1945: Harry S Truman
33	1945–53		Harry S Truman	Dem		1949–53: Alben W. Barkley
34	1953–61		Dwight David Eisenhower	Rep		Richard M. Nixon
35	1961–3		John Fitzgerald Kennedy	Dem		Lyndon B. Johnson
36	1963–9		Lyndon Baines Johnson	Dem		1965–9: Hubert H. Humphrey
37	1969–74		Richard Milhous Nixon	Rep		1969–73: Spiro T. Agnew
						1973–4: Gerald R. Ford
38	1974–7		Gerald Rudolph Ford	Rep		Nelson A. Rockefeller
39	1977–81		James Earl Carter	Dem		Walter F. Mondale
40	1981–9		Ronald Wilson Reagan	Rep		George H. W. Bush
41	1989–93		George Herbert Walker Bush	Rep		J. Danforth Quayle III
42	1993–2001		William Jefferson Clinton	Dem		Al Gore
43	2001–9		George Walker Bush	Rep		Dick Cheney
44	2009–17		Barack Hussein Obama	Dem		Joseph Robinette (Joe) Biden Jr.
45	2017–21		Donald John Trump	Rep		Michael Richard (Mike) Pence
46	2021–5		Joseph Robinette (Joe) Biden Jr.	Dem		Kamala Devi Harris
47	2025 to date		Donald John Trump	Rep		James David (JD) Vance

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		Runner–up		Running mate
2024	Trump / Vance		Kamala Harris		Tim Walz
2020	Biden / Harris		Donald Trump		Mike Pence
2016	Trump / Pence		Hillary Clinton		Tim Kaine
2012	Obama / Biden		Mitt Romney		Paul Ryan
2008	Obama / Biden		John McCain		Sarah Palin
2004	Bush / Cheney		John Kerry		John Edwards
2000	Bush / Cheney		Al Gore		Joe Lieberman
			Ralph Nader (Green)		Matt Gonzalez
1996	Clinton / Gore		Bob Dole		Jack Kemp
			Ross Perot (Reform)		Pat Choate
1992	Clinton / Gore		George H. W. Bush		Dan Quayle
			Ross Perot (no party)		James Stockdale
1988	Bush / Quayle		Michael Dukakis		Lloyd Bentsen
1984	Reagan / Bush		Walter Mondale		Geraldine Ferraro
1980	Reagan / Bush		Jimmy Carter		Walter Mondale
1976	Carter / Mondale		Gerald Ford		Bob Dole
1972	Nixon / Agnew		George McGovern		Sargent Shriver
1968	Nixon / Agnew		Hubert Humphrey		Edmund Muskey
			George Wallace (American Independent)		Curtis LeMay
1964	Johnson / Humphrey		Barry Goldwater		William E. Miller
1960	Kennedy / Johnson		Richard Nixon		Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
1956	Eisenhower / Nixon		Adlai Stevenson		Estes Kefauver
1952	Eisenhower / Nixon		Adlai Stevenson		John Sparker
1948	Truman / Berkeley		Thomas E. Dewey		Earl Warren
1944	Roosevelt / Truman		Thomas E. Dewey		John W. Bricker
1940	Roosevelt / Wallace		Wendell Wilkie		Charles L. McNary
1936	Roosevelt / Garner		Alf Landon		Frank Knox
1932	Roosevelt / Garner		Herbert Hoover		Charles Curtis
1928	Hoover / Curtis		Al Smith		Joseph T. Robinson

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