History 101
In case you need a refresher – which let’s face it, you probably do, here’s the list of the United States Presidents.
And if you can still recite them in order like it’s 5th grade all over again – please for the love of God just don’t sing a dumb ass song to go long.
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)
10. John Tyler (1841-1845)
11. James Knox Polk (1845-1849)
12. Zachary Taylor (1849-1850)
13. Millard Fillmore (1850-1853)
14. Franklin Pierce (1853-1857)
15. James Buchanan (1857-1861)
16. Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)
17. Andrew Johnson (1865-1869)
18. Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)
19. Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881)
20. James Garfield (1881)
21. Chester Alan Arthur (1881-1885)
22. Grover Cleveland (1885-1889)
23. Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893)
24. Grover Cleveland (1893-1897)
25. William McKinley (1897-1901)
26. Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)
27. William Howard Taft (1897-1901)
28. Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)
29. Warren G. Harding ( 1921-1923)
30. Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)
31. Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)
33. Harry Truman (1945-1953)
34. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)
35. John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)
36. Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969)
37. Richard M. Nixon (1969-1974)
38. Gerald Ford (1974-1977)
39. James Carter (1977-1981)
40. Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)
41. George H.W. Bush (1989-1993)
42. William Clinton (1993-2001)
43. George W. Bush (2001-2009)
44. Barack Obama (2009-present)
Don’t worry, if you don’t remember what they did or if you didn’t know we had a president named James Garfield – it’s okay. Really, you won’t need to know who signed the Emancipation Proclamation or who fought in the Mexican American War or what the hell Desert Storm was all about – so relax.
…You didn’t know we we went to war with Mexico did you? Ouch.
