Use of asterisks (*):
# Name
Lived Held Office
War(s)
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King Philip's War (1675)
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King William's War (1689-1697)
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Queen Anne's War (1702-1713)
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Yamasee War (1715-16)
(South Carolina Yamasee Tribe)
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King George's War (1744-1748)
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French and Indian Wars (1754-1763)
1 Washington, George
1732-1799 1789-1797
Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
2 Adams, John
1735-1826 1797-1801
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3 Jefferson, Thomas
1743-1826 1801-1809
Tripolitan War (1801-1805)
against Tripoli (now in Libya)
4 Madison, James
1751-1836 1809-1817
War of 1812
the Creek War (1813-14)
5 Monroe, James
1758-1831 1817-1825
Indian Wars of 1817-1821
First Seminole War (1817-18)
Monroe Doctrine (1823)
6 Adams, John Quincy
1767-1848 1825-1829
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7 Jackson, Andrew
"Old Hickory"1767-1845 1829-1837
Black Hawk War (1832)
Second Seminole War (1835-42)
8 Van Buren, Martin
1782-1862 1837-1841
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9 Harrison, William Henry*
1773-1841 1841
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10 *Tyler, John
1790-1862 1841-1845
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11 Polk, James Knox
1795-1849 1845-1849
Mexican War (1846-1848)
12 *Taylor, Zachary
"Old Rough and Ready"1784-1850 1849-1850
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13 *Fillmore, Millard
1800-1874 1850-1853
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14 Pierce, Franklin
1804-1869 1853-1857
Third Seminole War (1855-58)
15 Buchanan, James
1791-1868 1857-1861
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16 Lincoln, Abraham*
1809-1865 1861-1865
Civil War (1861-65)
17 *Johnson, Andrew
1808-1875 1865-1869
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18 Grant, Ulysses Simpson (Hiram Ulysses)
1822-1885 1869-1877
Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876)
19 Hayes, Rutherford Birchard
1822-1893 1877-1881
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20 Garfield, James Abram*
1831-1881 1881
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21 *Arthur, Chester Alan
1829-1886 1881-1885
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22 Cleveland, (Stephen) Grover
1837-1908 1885-1889
Apache Wars against Geronimo (1876-1886)
23 Harrison 2, Benjamin
1833-1901 1889-1893
1st Pan-American Conference (1889)
24 Cleveland, (Stephen) Grover
1837-1908 1893-1897
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25 McKinley, William*
1843-1901 1897-1901
Spanish-American War (1898)
26 *Roosevelt, Theodore
1858-1919 1901-1909
Awareded 1906 Nobel Peace Prize for his mediation in Russo-Japanese War
27 Taft, William Howard
1857-1930 1909-1913
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28 Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow
1856-1924 1913-1921
World War I (1914-1918)
League of Nations
Awarded 1919 Nobel Peace Prize
29 Harding, Warren Gamaliel*
1865-1923 1921-1923
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30 *Coolidge, (John) Calvin
1872-1933 1923-1929
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31 Hoover, Herbert Clark
1874-1964 1929-1933
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32 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano*
1882-1945 1933-1945
World War II (1939-1945)
33 *Truman, Harry S.
1884-1972 1945-1953
atomic bombing of Japan (1945)
Cold War with Soviet Union
United Nations, Marshall Plan (1948)
NATO (1949)
Korean War (1950-1953)
34 Eisenhower, Dwight David
"Ike"1890-1969 1953-1961
Cold War with Soviet Union continues
35 Kennedy, John Fitzgerald*
1917-1963 1961-1963
established Peace Corps (1961)
Bay of Pigs incident
36 *Johnson, Lyndon Baines
1908-1973 1963-1969
escalated involvement in Vietnam War (1954-1975)
37 Nixon, Richard Milhous**
1913-1994 1969-1974
"War on Drugs" (1971)
visited China (1972)
détente with U.S.S.R.
eventual withdrawal of U.S. troops from Southeast Asia
38 **Ford, Gerald Rudolph.
1913- 1974-1977
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39 Carter, James Earl, Jr. "Jimmy."
1924- 1977-1981
Camp David accords between Egypt and Israel (1979)
40 Reagan, Ronald Wilson
1911- 1981-1989
military involvements in Grenada, Central America, Lebanon, Libya
Cold War subsides (Glasnost with U.S.S.R.)
41 Bush, George Herbert Walker
1924- 1989-1993
Persian Gulf War I with Iraq (1990)
42 Clinton, William Jefferson "Bill"
1946- 1993-2001
Persian Gulf War II with Iraq (1999)
Serbia vs. Bosnia, Kosovo, NATO...
43 Bush, George W. "Dubya"
1946- 2001-2009
Afgan War against the Talliban and Al Qaeda (2001...)
Iraqi Invasion and Occupation (2003...)
"War on Terror"
44 Obama, Barack Hussein II
1961- 2009-
"Pashtunistan - Waziristan War"
or (as I also choose to call it) "The War Across the Durand Line",
continuing legacy of all G. W. Bush Administration wars.
Awarded 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
name*
died in office
*name
replaced preceding President who died
name**
left office before completion of term
**name
replaced preceding living President
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