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Preses o the
Unitit States
President of the United States
Incumbent
Joe Biden

since 20 Januar 2021 (2021-01-20)
Executive branch o the U.S. Govrenment
Executive Office o the Preses
StyleMr. Preses/Madam Preses
(Informal)[1][2]
The Honorable
(Formal)[3]
His Excellency[4][5][6]
(diplomatic, ootside the U.S.)
Member oCabinet
Domestic Policy Cooncil
Naitional Economic Cooncil
Naitional Security Cooncil
ResidenceThe White Hoose
SeatWashington, D.C.
AppynterElectoral College
Term lengthFower years
renewable ance
Constitutin instrumentUnitit States Constitution
FurmationMarch 4, 1789
First haulderGeorge Washington
Aprile 30, 1789
Salary$400,000 annually (2001-)
WabsteidThe White Hoose

The Preses o the Unitit States o Americae (POTUS)[7] is the heid o state an heid o govrenment o the Unitit States. The preses leads the executive branch o the federal govrenment an is the commander-in-chief o the Unitit States Airmed Forces. The person in this poseetion is the kintra's leader o whilk haes the lairgest economy an the lairgest militar, wi command authority ower the lairgest active nuclear arsenal. The preses is afttimes describit as the maist pouerfu person in the warld.[8][9][10][11][12]

Leet o Preses o the Unitit States

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# Name Took Office Left Office Party Vice President(s)
1 George Washington 1789 1797 Nae party John Adams
2 John Adams 1797 1801 Federalist Thomas Jefferson
3 Thomas Jefferson 1801 1809 Democratic-Republican Aaron Burr an George Clinton[n 1]
4 James Madison 1809 1817 Democratic-Republican Elbridge Gerry[n 1]
5 James Monroe 1817 1825 Democratic-Republican Daniel D. Tompkins
6 John Quincy Adams 1825 1829 Democratic-Republican John C. Calhoun
7 Andrew Jackson 1829 1837 Democratic John C. Calhoun[n 2] an Martin Van Buren
8 Martin Van Buren 1837 1841 Democratic Richard Mentor Johnson
9 William Henry Harrison[n 3] 1841 1841 Whig John Tyler
10 John Tyler 1841 1845 Whig[n 4] none
11 James K. Polk 1845 1849 Democratic George M. Dallas
12 Zachary Taylor[n 3] 1849[n 5] 1850 Whig Millard Fillmore
13 Millard Fillmore 1850 1853 Whig none
14 Franklin Pierce 1853 1857 Democratic William R. King[n 6]
15 James Buchanan 1857 1861 Democratic John C. Breckinridge
16 Abraham Lincoln[n 7] 1861 1865 Republican Hannibal Hamlin an Andrew Johnson
17 Andrew Johnson 1865 1869 Democratic[n 8] none
18 Ulysses S. Grant 1869 1877 Republican Schuyler Colfax an Henry Wilson[n 6]
19 Rutherford B. Hayes 1877 1881 Republican William A. Wheeler
20 James Garfield[n 7] 1881 1881 Republican Chester A. Arthur
21 Chester A. Arthur 1881 1885 Republican none
22 Grover Cleveland 1885 1889 Democratic Thomas A. Hendricks[n 6]
23 Benjamin Harrison 1889 1893 Republican Levi P. Morton
24 Grover Cleveland 1893 1897 Democratic Adlai E. Stevenson
25 William McKinley[n 7] 1897 1901 Republican Garret A. Hobart[n 6] syne Theodore Roosevelt
26 Theodore Roosevelt 1901 1909 Republican None then Charles W. Fairbanks
27 William Howard Taft 1909 1913 Republican James S. Sherman[n 6]
28 Woodrow Wilson 1913 1921 Democratic Thomas R. Marshall
29 Warren G. Harding[n 3] 1921 1923 Republican Calvin Coolidge
30 Calvin Coolidge 1923 1929 Republican None then Charles G. Dawes
31 Herbert Hoover 1929 1933 Republican Charles Curtis
32 Franklin D. Roosevelt[n 3] 1933 1945 Democratic John Nance Garner an Henry A. Wallace an Harry S. Truman
33 Harry S. Truman 1945 1953 Democratic None then Alben W. Barkley
34 Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953 1961 Republican Richard Nixon
35 John F. Kennedy[n 7] 1961 1963 Democratic Lyndon B. Johnson
36 Lyndon B. Johnson 1963 1969 Democratic Nane syne Hubert H. Humphrey
37 Richard Nixon[n 9] 1969 1974 Republican Spiro Agnew[n 2] syne Nane syne Gerald Ford
38 Gerald Ford 1974 1977 Republican Nane syne Nelson Rockefeller
39 Jimmy Carter 1977 1981 Democratic Walter F. Mondale
40 Ronald Reagan 1981 1989 Republican George H. W. Bush
41 George H. W. Bush 1989 1993 Republican James Danforth Quayle III
42 Bill Clinton 1993 2001 Democratic Al Gore
43 George W. Bush 2001 2009 Republican Richard B. Cheney
44 Barack Obama 2009 2017 Democratic Joe Biden
45 Donald J. Trump 2017 2021 Republican Michael R. Pence
46 Joe Biden 2021 Democratic Kamala Harris
  1. a b Died while Vice Preses.
  2. a b Resigned as Vice Preses.
  3. a b c d Died o naitral causes.
  4. Democrat on Whig ticket.
  5. Wisnae sworn intae office on the day he wis expeckit tae.
  6. a b c d e Died while Vice Preses, wisnae replaced.
  7. a b c d Assassinated.
  8. Democrat who ran on Union ticket with Republican Lincoln.
  9. Resigned.

References

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  1. "How To Address The President; He Is Not Your Excellency Or Your Honor, But Mr. President". The New York Times. 2 August 1891.
  2. "USGS Correspondence Handbook - Chapter 4". Usgs.gov. 18 Julie 2007. Archived frae the original on 26 September 2012. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
  3. "Models of Address and Salutation". Ita.doc.gov. Archived frae the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
  4. HEADS OF STATE, HEADS OF GOVERNMENT, MINISTERS FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS Archived 2013-10-19 at the Wayback Machine, Protocol and Liaison Service, Unitit Naitions. Retrieved on November 1, 2012.
  5. The White House Office of the Press Secretary (1 September 2010). "Remarks by President Obama, President Mubarak, His Majesty King Abdullah, Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Abbas Before Working Dinner". WhiteHouse.gov. Retrieved 19 Julie 2011.
  6. "Exchange of Letters". Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations. September 1978. Archived frae the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 19 Julie 2011.
  7. Safire, William, "On language: POTUS and FLOTUS," New York Times, October 12, 1997. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
  8. Noer, Michael; Perlroth, Nicole (11 November 2009). "The World's Most Powerful People". Forbes. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
  9. "The Most Powerful Man in the World is a Black Man – The Los Angeles Sentinel". Lasentinel.net. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
  10. "Who should be the world's most powerful person?". The Guardian. London. 3 Januar 2008.
  11. Jon Meacham (20 December 2008). "Meacham: The History of Power". Newsweek. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
  12. Fareed Zakaria (20 December 2008). "The NEWSWEEK 50: Barack Obama". Newsweek. Retrieved 4 September 2010.