Draft:List of United States Republican Presidencies
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The Republican Party was founded in 1854.[1] They quickly rose to popularity, managing to narrowly lose the 1856 United States presidential election. The first Republican President was Abraham Lincoln in 1860. There have been 19 Republican presidents so far. The last us president that was a republican was Donald Trump in 2017.
Republican Presidents
[edit]No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term | Party | Election | Vice President |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) |
March 4, 1861-April 15, 1865 [2] [a] | Whig Party (till 1856) Republican Party (1856-1864) National Union Party (1864-1865) |
1860 1864 |
Hannibal Hamlin (1961-1965) Andrew Johnson (Mar-Apr 1965) | |
2 |
Andrew Johnson |
April 15, 1865- March 4, 1869 | Republican Party | None | None [4] [b] | |
3 |
Ulysses S. Grant |
March 4, 1869- March 4, 1877 | Republican Party | 1868 1872 |
Schuyler Colfax Henry Wilson None [c] | |
4 |
Rutherford B. Hayes |
March 4, 1877- March 4, 1881 | Republican Party | 1876 | William A. Wheeler | |
5 |
James A. Garfield |
March 4, 1881- September 19, 1881 [5] [d] | Republican Party | 1880 | Chester A. Arthur | |
6 |
Chester A. Arthur |
September 19, 1881- March 4, 1885 | Republican Party (From 1854) Whig Party (Till 1854) |
None | None [e] | |
7 |
Benjamin Harrison |
March 4, 1889- March 4, 1893 | Republican Party (From 1856) Whig Party (Till 1856) |
1888 1892 (Lost) |
Levi P. Morton | |
8 |
William McKinley |
March 4, 1897- September 14, 1901 [7] [f] | Republican Party | 1896 1900 |
Garret Hobart (died in office) None (1899-1901)[g] Theodore Roosevelt (Mar-Sep 1901) | |
9 |
Theodore Roosevelt |
September 14, 1901- March 4, 1909 | Republican Party (1880-1912, 1916-1919) Bull Moose Party (1912-1916) |
1904 1912 (Lost) |
None (1901-1905) Charles W. Fairbanks (1905-1909) | |
10 |
William Howard Taft |
March 4, 1909- March 4, 1913 | Republican Party | 1908 1912 (Lost) |
James S. Sherman (1909-1912)
(died in office) None (1912-1913) [h] | |
11 |
Warren G. Harding |
March 4, 1921- August 2, 1923 [9] | Republican Party | 1920 | Calvin Coolidge | |
12 |
Calvin Coolidge |
August 2, 1923- March 4, 1929 | Republican Party | 1924 | None (1923-1925)[i] Charles G. Dawes (1925-1929) | |
13 |
Herbert Hoover |
March 4, 1929- March 4, 1933 | Republican Party (Till 1920) Independent (From 1920) |
1928 1932 (Lost) |
Charles Curtis | |
14 |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
January 20, 1953- January 20, 1961 | Republican Party (From 1952) Democratic Party (1909) [j] |
1952 1956 |
Richard Nixon | |
15 |
Richard Nixon |
January 20, 1969- August 9, 1974 [k] | Republican Party | 1960 (Lost) 1968 1972 |
Spiro Agnew (1969-1973) None (Oct-Nov 1973) Gerald Ford | |
16 |
Gerald Ford |
August 9, 1974- January 20, 1977 [l] | Republican Party | 1976 (Lost) | None (Aug-Dec 1974) Nelson Rockfeller (Dec 1974-1977) | |
17 |
Ronald Reagan |
January 20, 1981- January 20, 1989 | Republican Party | 1980 1984 |
George H. W. Bush |
Notes
[edit]- ^ On April 14, 1865 US President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth. He was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead the next day on April 15, 1865. [3]
- ^ This was before the 25th Amendment in 1967. Andrew Johnson was the vice president of Abraham Lincoln who was assassinated in 1865. This meant Andrew Jonson did not have any vice president.
- ^ This was before the 25th Amendment in 1967. Since Henry Wilson died in office, There would be no vice president until the next election. But grant decided not to run for a third term,which meant no more vice president.
- ^ On July 2, 1881 James A. Garfield was shot in the Baltimore station by Charles J. Guiteau. Over a month later,He was pronounced dead on September 14, 1881. He was president for only 6 months.[6]
- ^ This was before the 25th Amendment in 1967. Since Chester A. Arthur took office after James Garfield died, He had no vice president.
- ^ On September 6,1901 William Mckinley was shot in the Temple of Music by anarchist Leon Czolgosz. He was then brought to an hospital. Intially there were signs of Mkinley recovering,But the doctors were incompentent. And after 1 week,He died from the bullet. [8]
- ^ This was before the 25th Amendment in 1967. Garret Hobart died in office, So the next vice president didn't come until the next election in 1900
- ^ This was before the 25th Amendment in 1967. James S. Sherman died in office, So the next vice president would have come after the next election, But Taft lost the 1912 election which meant there was no more vice president for the remainder of his term.
- ^ This was before the 25th Amendment in 1967. Warren G. Harding died in office, Which put Calvin Coolidge in office. He did not have a vice president until the 1924 US Election.
- ^ In 1909 when Eisenhower was only 19, He announced that he is a Democrat. But he changed his party later on in life. [10]
- ^ On August 8, Richard Nixon announced that he intended to resign the following day. Due to the Watergate Scandal, his reputation was tainted. He gave a resignation speech.[11] The next his presidency ended and he was succeeded by his vice president Gerald Ford.
- ^ His presidency began when Richard Nixon resigned from office. Since he was vice president he became President afterwards. He tried to get a full term but was defeated in 1976 by democrat nominee Jimmy Carter. His presidency ended when his successor Jimmy Carter entered office on January 20, 1977.
References
[edit]- ^ "Information about the Republican Party". Voteview.
- ^ "Assassination of Abraham Lincoln". Britannica. Jeff Wallenfeldt.
- ^ "Abraham's Death". Ford's Theatre.
- ^ "Andrew Johnson". The white house.
- ^ "James A. Garfield Assassination". Library of Congress.
- ^ "James A. Garfield Presidency". Britannica.
- ^ "William McKinley Assassination". Library of Congress.
- ^ "William Mckinley: Death of the president". millercenter. Lewis L. Gould.
- ^ "Death of Warren G. Harding explained". National Congress Center.
- ^ "Eisen was a democrat" (PDF). npshistory.
- ^ "Richard Nixon Resignation Speech". Youtube.