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From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium

The office of President of the United States has been held by 43 men since George Washington became the first in 1789. In the listings, however, Grover Cleveland is counted twice because he had two separate terms. Elections take place in years divisible by 4; the term for the president begins in the following year. The first term of office started on 30 April 1789. Subsequent terms of office began on 4 March until the ratification of the 20th Amendment in 1933. Since 1937 terms have started on 20 January. The 22nd Amendment (ratified in 1951) placed a limit of two 4-year terms or ten years in office. Seven presidents have died in office and one resigned. In each instance, the vice-president succeeded to the office immediately.

The holders of the office of President have been:

No.	Name	Term of office	Reason for early end of term
1	George Washington	1789-1797
2	John Adams	1797-1801
3	Thomas Jefferson	1801-1809
4	James Madison	1809-1817
5	James Monroe	1817-1825
6	John Quincy Adams	1825-1829
7	Andrew Jackson	1829-1837
8	Martin Van Buren	1837-1841
9	William Henry Harrison	1841	Died in office April 4, 1841
10	John Tyler	1841-1845
11	James K. Polk	1845-1849
12	Zachary Taylor	1849-1850	Died in office July 9, 1850
13	Millard Fillmore	1850-1853
14	Franklin Pierce	1853-1857
15	James Buchanan	1857-1861
16	Abraham Lincoln	1861-1865	Assassinated April 15, 1865
17	Andrew Johnson	1865-1869
18	Ulysses S. Grant	1869-1877
19	Rutherford B. Hayes	1877-1881
20	James Garfield	1881	Assassinated September 19, 1881
21	Chester Arthur	1881-1885
22	Grover Cleveland	1885-1889
23	Benjamin Harrison	1889-1893
24	Grover Cleveland	1893-1897
25	William McKinley	1897-1901	Assassinated September 14, 1901
26	Theodore Roosevelt	1901-1909
27	William Howard Taft	1909-1913
28	Woodrow Wilson	1913-1921
29	Warren G. Harding	1921-1923	Died in office August 2, 1923
30	Calvin Coolidge	1923-1929
31	Herbert Hoover	1929-1933
32	Franklin D. Roosevelt	1933-1945	Died in office April 12, 1945
33	Harry S. Truman	1945-1953
34	Dwight D. Eisenhower	1953-1961
35	John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	Assassinated November 22, 1963
36	Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969
37	Richard M. Nixon	1969-1974	Resigned August 9, 1974
38	Gerald Ford	1974-1977
39	Jimmy Carter	1977-1981
40	Ronald Reagan	1981-1989
41	George H. W. Bush	1989-1993
42	Bill Clinton	1993-2001
43	George W. Bush	2001-2009
44	Barack Obama	2009-present