Monday, July 04, 2016

List of the Presidents of the United States (Past and Present)

As United States celebrates its independence day today, we take time out to remember all those whose leadership helped shape the entity called the United States of America as a formidable power in international diplomacy.

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


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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 Birchard Hayes, 1877-1881
20.    James Abram 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, 1909-1913
28.      Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921
29.      Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-1923
30.       Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929
31.      Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-1933
32.     Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945
33.      Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953
34.      Dwight David Eisenhower, 1953-1961
35.      John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963
36.     Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969
37.      Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974
38.      Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977
39.      James Earl Carter, Jr., 1977-1981
40.     Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-1989
41.     George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993
42.      William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001
43.      George Walker Bush, 2001-2009
44.       Barack Hussein Obama, 2009-

Special mention of Secretary Cordell Hull, who served as the Secretary of States under Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He led a revolutionary step towards transforming United States to a highly respected entity. His innovations which facilitated the establishment of many international organizations, with particular mention of the GATT, 1948 and the IBRD, and gave United States a prominent stance stand in awe before most diplomats. 

Long live the United States of America

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