Presidential Timeline

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  • George Washington

    George Washington
    30th April 1789 - 4th March 1797
    Vice President - John Adams
    Chief of Staff - Alexander Hamilton
    No political party affiliation
    Washington set the precident for a possibility of 2 terms for a
    president
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  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson
    4th March 1801 - 4th March 1809
    Aaron Burr (1801–1805) and George Clinton (1805–1809)
    No chief of staff
    Federalist
    Proposed a policy to settle Western territories
    By 1814, Jefferson owned about 6,500 books

  • Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson
    March 4, 1829 - March 4, 1837
    John C. Calhoun (1829–1832)
    None (1832–1833)
    Martin Van Buren (1833–1837)
    No chief of staff
    Democrat
    Proposed a policy to remove Native Americans from their
    land
    In 1781, Jackson worked for a saddle-maker

  • James K. Polk

    James K. Polk
    March 4, 1845 – March 4, 1849
    VP - George M. Dallas
    No chief of staff
    Democrat
    In 1846, Polk approved a law restoring the Independent
    Treasury System, under which government funds were held
    in the Treasury and not in banks or other financial
    institutions.
    Polk's wife assisted her husband with his speeches, gave him
    advice on policy matters and played an active role in his
    campaigns.

  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln
    March 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865
    Vice Presidents - Hannibal Hamlin (1861–1865)
    Andrew Johnson (1865)
    Chief of Staff - General Henry Halleck
    Republican
    Put the Emancipation Proclimation into action
    His mother died of milk sickness

  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt
    September 14, 1901 – March 4, 1909
    Vice President - None (1901–1905)
    Charles W. Fairbanks
    (1905–1909)
    Chief of Staff - Louis McHenry Howe
    Republican
    Backed the building of the Panama Canal

  • Woodrow Wilson

    Woodrow Wilson
    March 4, 1913 – March 4, 1921
    Vice President - Thomas R. Marshall
    Chief of Staff - Louis McHenry Howe
    Democrat
    Wilson emphasized lower tariffs and limited federal
    government
    in his foreign policy
    - Wilson's father was one of the founders of the Southern
    Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS) after it split
    from the northern Presbyterians.

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945
    Vice Presidents - John Nance Garner (1933–41)
    Henry A. Wallace (1941–45)
    Harry S. Truman (1945)
    Chief of Staff - Louis McHenry Howe
    Democrat
    Implemented the New Deal
    FDR had many extra-marital affairs

  • Harry Truman

    Harry Truman
    April 12, 1945 – January 20, 1953
    Vice Presidents - None (1945–49)[a]
    Alben W. Barkley (1949–53)
    Chief of Staff - John R. Steelman
    Democrat
    Approved the NSC-68, which tripled the defnese budget
    Made the decision to to drop the atomic bomb on Nagasaki
    and Hiroshima

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961
    Vice President - Richard Nixon
    Chief of Staff - Sherman Adams
    Planned the Bay of Pigs Invasion to overthrow Fidel Castro
    The Cold War took place during his presidency