one barton family.net's Genealogy Project
 Our ancestors who are also the ancestors of U. S. Presidents
2nd President John Adams 

6th President John Quincy Adams 

12th President Zachary Taylor 

13th President Millard Fillmore

14th President Franklin Pierce 

18th President Ulysses S. Grant 

19th President Rutherford B. Hayes 

20th President James Garfield

22nd President Grover Cleveland 

23rd President Benjamin Harrison

24th President Grover Cleveland 

27th President William Howard Taft 

29th President Warren G. Harding 

30th President Calvin Coolidge 

31st President Herbert Hoover 

32nd President Franklin Delano Roosevelt 

37th President Richard Nixon 

38th President Gerald Ford 

41st President George H. W. Bush 

43rd President George W. Bush 

44th President Barack Obama 

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U. S. Presidents Timeline

1789
7 Jan:  The first U. S. presidential election is held.History.com LoC
30 Apr:  George Washington takes the oath of office as the first president of the United States of America, 1789 - 1797.USNA MtVernon
1796
7 Dec:  John Adams is elected the 2nd president of the United States of America, 1797 - 1801.USEA Whitehouse
1800
1 Nov:  John Adams moves into the White House, the first President to do so.Whitehouse WHHA
1801
17 Feb:  Thomas Jefferson is elected, by vote of Congress, as the 3rd president of the United States of America, 1801 - 1809.LoC USNA
1808
7 Dec:  James Madison is elected the 4th president of the United States of America, 1809 - 1817.USEA Whitehouse
1816
4 Dec:  James Monroe is elected the 5th president of the United States of America, 1817 - 1825.USEA Whitehouse
1825
9 Feb:  John Quincy Adams is elected by Congress as the 6th president of the United States of America, 1825 - 1829.UVA LoC
1828
3 Dec:  Andrew Jackson is elected the 7th president of the United States of America, 1829 - 1837.USEA SI
1836
7 Dec:  Martin van Buren is elected the 8th president of the United States of America, 1837 - 1841.USEA Whitehouse
1840
2 Dec:  William Henry Harrison is elected the 9th president of the United States of America. He dies of pneumonia on 4 Apr 1841 - the first President to die in office.PG USEA
1841
4 Apr:  John Tyler becomes the 10th president of the United States of America upon the death of President William Henry Harrison. He serves from 1841 - 1845.WH LSU
1844
4 Dec:  James Knox Polk is elected the 11th president of the United States of America, 1845 - 1849.USEA Whitehouse
1848
7 Nov:  Zachary Taylor is elected the 12th president of the United States of America . He fell ill on 4 Jul 1850 and died 5 days later.UVA-MC LoC
1850
10 Jul:  Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th president of the United States of America the day after President Zachary Taylor dies suddenly. He serves from 1850 - 1853.LoC USSenate
1852
2 Nov:  Franklin Pierce is elected the 14th president of the United States of America, 1853 - 1857.NEHS KCET
1856
4 Nov:  James Buchanan Jr. is elected the 15th president of the United States of America, 1857 - 1861.USEA LoC
1860
6 Nov:  Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States of America, 1861 - 1865.SIMag LoC
1863
19 Nov:  President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address.LoC
1865
1 Feb:  President Abraham Lincoln signs the 13th Amendment which abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude.LoC OurDocs
14 Apr:  President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre.LoC Ford's
15 Apr:  President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot by John Wilkes Booth the previous day.PBS LoC
15 Apr:  Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th president of the United States of America upon President Lincoln's death. He serves from 1865 - 1869.NPS LoC
1869
3 Nov:  Ulysses S. Grant is elected the 18th president of the United States of America, 1869 - 1877.USEA
1876
7 Nov:  Rutherford Birchard Hayes is elected the 19th president of the United States of America, 1877 - 1881.USEA
1880
2 Nov:  James Abram Garfield is elected the 20th president of the United States of America. Garfield is wounded by an assassin's bullet on 3 Jul 1881 and dies on 19 Sep 1881.USEA USHouse
1881
19 Sep:  Chester Alan Arthur becomes the 21st president of the United States of America upon the death of President Garfield. He serves from 1881 - 1885.LoC POTUS
1884
4 Nov:  Stephen Grover Cleveland is elected the 22nd president of the United States of America, 1885 - 1889.USEA
1888
6 Nov:  Benjamin Harrison is elected the 23rd president of the United States of America, 1889 - 1893.USEA
1893
8 Nov:  Stephen Grover Cleveland is elected the 24th president of the United States of America, 1893 - 1897.USEA
1896
3 Nov:  William McKinley Jr. is elected the 25th president of the United States of America, 1897 - 1901. William McKinley dies in Buffalo, New York on 14 Sept 1901.USEA USSenate
1901
6 Sep:  U. S. President William McKinley is shot while attending the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.LoC BN
14 Sep:  Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 26th president of the United States of America upon the death of President McKinley. He serves 1901 - 1909.LoC NCC
1909
3 Nov:  William Howard Taft is elected 27th president of the United States of America, 1909 - 1913.USEA
1912
5 Nov:  Thomas Woodrow Wilson is elected 28th president of the United States of America, 1913 - 1921.USEA
1919
2 Oct:  U. S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke that will leave him incapacitated until the end of his presidency.PBS JNS
1920
2 Nov:  Warren Gamaliel Harding is elected the 29th president of the United States of America. He dies of a heart attack in San Francisco on 2 August 1923. USEA LoC
1923
3 Aug:  John Calvin Coolidge Jr. becomes the 30th president of the United States of America the day after President Warren G. Harding dies - from 1923 - 1929.Whitehouse LoC
1928
6 Nov:  Herbert Clark Hoover is elected 31st president of the United States of America, 1929 - 1933.USEA
1932
8 Nov:  Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected the 32nd president of the United States of America, 1933 - 1945. He died in office on 12 April 1945.USEA
1933
12 Mar:  Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first "fireside chat" is broadcast.npr MC-UVA
1945
12 Apr:  Harry S. Truman becomes the 33rd president of the United States of America upon the death of FDR, 1945 - 1953.Whitehouse LoC
1947
5 Oct:  President Harry Truman makes the first-ever televised presidential address from the White House.History.com
1952
4 Nov:  Dwight David Eisenhower is elected the 34th president of , 1953 - 1961.USEA
1960
8 Nov:  John Fitzgerald Kennedy is elected 35th president of the United States of America, 1961 - 1963.USEA
1961
25 Jan:  John F. Kennedy delivers the first presidential news conference to be broadcast live on television.History.com JFKLib
1962
12 Sep:  President John F. Kennedy, speaking at Rice University, challenges America to reach the Moon within the decade.NASA USNA
1963
22 Nov:  President John Fitzgerald Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas.JFKLib USNA
22 Nov:  Lyndon Baines Johnson, Vice President, is sworn in as the 36th president of the United States of America aboard Air Force One upon the death of President John F. Kennedy, 1963 - 1969. Whitehouse UVA
1968
5 Nov:  Richard Milhous Nixon is elected 37th president of the United States of America, 1969 - 1974.USEA
1973
10 Oct:  U. S. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigns after pleading no contest to income tax evasion.Nation USHouse
1974
8 Aug:  Richard Milhous Nixon announces that he will resign from the office of President of the United States of America.Whitehouse NAF
9 Aug:  Nixon resigns.NAF Whitehouse
9 Aug:  Gerald Rudolph Ford becomes the 38th president of the United States of America, 1974 - 1977.Whitehouse GRFPL&M
1976
2 Nov:  James Earl Carter Jr. is elected the 39th president of the United States of America, 1977 - 1981.USEA
1980
4 Nov:  Ronald Wilson Reagan is elected 40th president of the United States of America, 1981 - 1989.USEA
1985
19 Nov:  Mikail Gorbachov and Ronald Reagan meet for the first time.POLITICO USState
1988
8 Nov:  George Herbert Walker Bush is elected 41st president of the United States of America, 1989 - 1993.USEA
1992
3 Nov:  William Jefferson Clinton is elected 42nd president of the United States of America, 1993 - 2001.USNA USEA
1998
19 Dec:  U. S. President Bill Clinton is impeached.History.com CNN
2000
13 Dec:  Al Gore concedes the United States presidential election to George W. Bush.CNN New Yorker
2001
6 Jan:  George Walker Bush is declared the 43rd president of the United States of America, 2001 - 2009.OF CNN
2008
4 Nov:  Barack Hussein Obama is elected the 44th president of the United States of America, 2009 - 2017.USSenate USNA
2016
8 Nov:  Somehow, a narcissistic, Nazi orangutan is elected 45th president of the United States of America.MotherJones
2019
24 Sep:  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces the first formal impeachment inquiry of the 45th President of the United States.NYT CNN
18 Dec:  America WINS! The Crime Boss in the White House is IMPEACHED!CNN CBS
2020
11 Aug:  Presidential candidate Joe Biden selects Kamala Harris as his running mate.NYT BP
7 Nov:  Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States after he and Kamala Harris are declared winners of the 2020 election.CBS WAPO
2021
13 Jan:  For the first time in U. S. history, the Insurrectionist-in-Chief is impeached for the second time during his 4 year presidency.CNN NBCNews
2023
30 Mar:  The twice impeached, former squatter of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue adds to his criminal resumé with an indictment - another first, I might add - he received in New York City over hush money payments to a porn star. Happy days are here again!CNN npr
8 Jun:  The twice impeached, indicted, sexual abuser and former squatter of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue again adds to his criminal resumé, this time with a federal indictment - another first - he received in Florida containing 37 charges related to classified documents found at Mar-a-lago.CNN npr
1 Aug:  The twice impeached, twice indicted, rapist and former squatter of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue again adds another bullet to his criminal resumé - a federal indictment related to the January 6th insurrection.DoJ CBS
14 Aug:  The twice impeached, thrice indicted, rapist and former squatter of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue again adds another bullet to his criminal resumé - this time an indictment in the state of Georgia regarding his attempt to steal the election there.AP Reuters
2024
30 May:  Guilty on ALL 34 counts!WSJ POLITICO
21 Jul:  Joe Biden decides to end his run for re-election. He then endorses Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee.POLITICO B B C