US Presidents timeline: Donald Trump’s inauguration is today but who preceded him

US Presidents since the 1950s
Thu, January 19, 2017

Express Pictures looks back on the US Presidents since the 1950s.

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The 44th President Barack Obama today leaves the White House to make way for his controversial successor Donald Trump.

Click through the pictures gallery above to see the photograph of the all the former US Presidents since the 1950s.

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Inaugurations of the past: Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and J F Kennedy

The timeline below lists every President in US history, starting with the founding father George Washington in 1789.

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) Martin Van Buren (1833-1837)

8. Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)

9. William Henry Harrison (1841)

10. John Tyler (1841-1845)

11. James K. 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) None (1865-1869)

18. Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)

19. Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881)

20. James A. Garfield (1881)

21. Chester Arthur (1881-1885) None (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 (1909-1913)

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 S. Truman (1945-1953)

34. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)

35. John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)

36. Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969)

37. Richard Nixon (1969-1974)

38. Gerald Ford (1974-1977)

Nelson Rockefeller (1974-1977)

39. Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)

40. Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)

41. George Bush (1989-1993)

42. Bill Clinton (1993-2001)

43. George W. Bush (2001-2009)

44. Barack Obama (2009-2017)

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