3. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
First in the White house
Capital in Washington DC
Alien & Sedition Act
Federalist
4. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Thomas Jefferson
Aaron Burr
George Clinton
Purchase of Louisiana
Louis & Clark expedition
Embargo Act
Federalist
5. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
James Madison
George Clinton
Elbridge Gerry
War of 1812
New Orleans battle (1815)
Cumberland Road
Democratic-Republican
6. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
James Monroe
Daniel Tompkins
The Monroe Doctrine
Missouri Compromise
Florida in the Union
Democratic-Republican
7. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
John Quincy Adams
John Calhoun
Son of John Adams
“Internal improvements”
Democratic-Republican
8. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Andrew Jackson
John Calhoun
Martin Van Buren
Bank War (1832)
Indian removal Act
“Spoil system” initiation
Democratic
9. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Martin Van Buren
Richard Johnson
His first language was Dutch
Panic of 1837 & crisis
“The trail of tears” for Indians
Democratic
10. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
William H. Harrison
John Tyler
The shortest Presidency
Died on his 32nd day in office
Whig
11. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
John Tyler
none
Succeeded W.H. Harrison
Expelled from his own party
Later, a Confederation supporter
Whig, no-party
12. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
James K. Polk
George Dallas
American-Mexican War
A vast territory was acquired
The first cost-to-coast President
Democratic
13. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Zachary Taylor
Millard Fillmore
Died in 1850, as president
Whig
14. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Millard Fillmore
none
Succeeded Zachary Taylor
“Compromise of 1850”
Last Whig President
Whig
15. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Franklin Pierce
William King
none (1853-1857)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Democratic
16. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
James Buchanan
John Breckinridge
Dred-Scott decision
Failure on Slavery dispute
South Carolina seceded
Democratic
17. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Abraham Lincoln
Hannibal Hamlin
Andrew Johnson
Civil War (1863-1865)
Emancipation
Assassinated on Apr 3,1865
Republican
18. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Andrew Johnson
none
Reconstruction Act
Purchase of Alaska
The first to be impeached
National Union
19. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Ulysses S. Grant
Schuyler Colfax
Henry Wilson
none (1875-1877)
Various scandals
Financial Crisis
Civil Rights Act
Republican
20. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Rutherford Hayes
William Wheeler
The end of Reconstruction
Start of the “Gilded Age”
Railroad strikes
Republican
21. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
James Garfield
Chester Arthur
Assassinated in 1881
Republican
22. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Chester Arthur
none
Succeeded James Garfield
Pendleton Act on Civil hiring
Republican
23. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Grover Cleveland
Thomas A. Hendricks
none (1885-1889)
Married in the White House
Ended silver coinage
Curtailed veterans’ pensions
Democratic
24. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Benjamin Harrison
Levi Morton
Grandson of B. H. Harrison
Six more states in the Union
Forest Act
Republican
25. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Grover Cleveland
Adlai Stevenson
Two non-consecutive terms
Panic of 1893 & Depression
Pullman strike
Democratic
26. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
William McKinley
Garret Hobart
Theodore Roosevelt
Spanish-American war
Hawaii annexed
Assassinated in 1901
Republican
27. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Theodore Roosevelt
none (1901-1905)
Charles Fairbanks
The youngest President ever
Pure Food & Drug Act
Panama Canal
Republican
28. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
William Taft
James Sherman
none (1912-1913)
Antitrust policies
Arizona & New Mexico
Became Chief Justice later
Republican
29. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Marshall
World War I
Federal Reserve Act
Seriously ill at the end of 2nd term
Democratic
30. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Warren Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Popular, got 60% in election
Ran a corrupt administration
Died in 1923, as president
Republican
31. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Calvin Coolidge
none (1923-1925)
Charles Dawes
“The roaring twenties”
Immigration Act
Economy & Stock Market boom
Republican
32. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Herbert C. Hoover
Charles Curtis
Stock market Crash of 1929
The Great Depression
Republican
33. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John Garner
Henry Wallace
Harry Truman
Exit from Great Depression
New Deal
World War II
Democratic
34. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Harry S Truman
none (1945-1949)
Alben Barkley
End of WW II, Atomic bombs
Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan
Korean War (1950-53
Democratic
35. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Dwight Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
End of Korean War
Cold War
Economic Growth
Republican
36. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Cuban Missile Crisis
Start of “Moon race”
Assassinated in Dallas
Democratic
37. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Lyndon Johnson
none (1963-1965)
Hubert Humphrey
Vietnam War
The Civil Rights Act
“War on Poverty” initiative
Democratic
38. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Richard Nixon
Spiro Agnew
Gerald R. Ford
Man on the moon
“Nixon to China”
Watergate and resignation
Republican
39. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Gerald R. Ford
Nelson Rockefeller
The only President never elected
End of Vietnam War
Pardon to Nixon
Republican
40. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Jimmy Carter
Walter Mondale
Energy crisis
Camp-David Accords
Iran Hostage Crisis
Democratic
41. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Ronald Reagan
George H. W. Bush
Oldest elected President
“Star Wars” initiative
“Reaganomics”
Republican
42. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
George H. W. Bush
Dan Quayle
End of Cold War
Gulf War (1990-91)
NAFTA trade pact
Republican
43. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Bill Clinton
Al Gore
Internet
Economic growth
Monica Lewinski scandal
Democratic
44. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
George W. Bush
Richard Cheney
9/11
Iraq War & “War on terror”
Tax cuts
Republican
45. Vice President
Events & Actions
Party
Barack Obama
Joseph Biden
First African American President
National Health Reform bill
Democratic