Who Was the Oldest U.S. President?
Donald Trump is the oldest president ever inaugurated, Joe Biden the oldest to serve, and Jimmy Carter the longest-lived. Exact ages for every record.
U.S. Presidents
45 people have served as President of the United States across 47 presidencies. For every president with term dates, see U.S. Presidents in Order.
Who Was the Youngest U.S. President?
Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest U.S. president at 42 years, 322 days; John F. Kennedy was the youngest elected. See the ranked list and the age-35 rule.
How Many Presidents Have Been Assassinated?
Four U.S. presidents were assassinated: Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy. When and where each died, who took over, and how protection changed.
U.S. Presidents in Order: The Complete List
All 47 U.S. presidencies in order, from George Washington in 1789 to Donald Trump in 2025, with term dates, ages and how each presidency came to an end.
The 1700s and 1800s
WashingtonNo. 1
J. AdamsNo. 2
JeffersonNo. 3
MadisonNo. 4
MonroeNo. 5
J. Q. AdamsNo. 6
JacksonNo. 7
Van BurenNo. 8
W. H. HarrisonNo. 9
TylerNo. 10
PolkNo. 11
TaylorNo. 12
FillmoreNo. 13
PierceNo. 14
BuchananNo. 15
LincolnNo. 16
A. JohnsonNo. 17
GrantNo. 18
HayesNo. 19
GarfieldNo. 20
ArthurNo. 21
ClevelandNo. 22
B. HarrisonNo. 23
McKinleyNo. 25
The 1900s
T. RooseveltNo. 26
TaftNo. 27
WilsonNo. 28
HardingNo. 29
CoolidgeNo. 30
HooverNo. 31
F. D. RooseveltNo. 32
TrumanNo. 33
EisenhowerNo. 34
KennedyNo. 35
L. B. JohnsonNo. 36
NixonNo. 37
FordNo. 38
CarterNo. 39
ReaganNo. 40
G. H. W. BushNo. 41
ClintonNo. 42
Since 2000
G. W. BushNo. 43
ObamaNo. 44
TrumpNo. 45
BidenNo. 46
Portrait credits
All portraits are public-domain images from Wikimedia Commons, shown in a uniform sepia tone by Yesterday Files. Follow each link for the original file, its author and the archive that holds it.
- George Washington: Gilbert Stuart
- John Adams: Gilbert Stuart
- Thomas Jefferson: Rembrandt Peale
- James Madison: John Vanderlyn
- James Monroe: Gilbert Stuart
- John Quincy Adams: Credit on source page
- Andrew Jackson: Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl
- Martin Van Buren: Mathew Benjamin Brady
- William Henry Harrison: James Lambdin
- John Tyler: George Peter Alexander Healy
- James K. Polk: Mathew B. Brady
- Zachary Taylor: James Lambdin
- Millard Fillmore: Mathew Benjamin Brady
- Franklin Pierce: Mathew Benjamin Brady
- James Buchanan: From Brady daguerreotype
- Abraham Lincoln: Alexander Gardner
- Andrew Johnson: Mathew Brady
- Ulysses S. Grant: Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress
- Rutherford B. Hayes: Mathew Benjamin Brady
- James A. Garfield: Unknown author
- Chester A. Arthur: Abraham Bogardus
- Grover Cleveland: Unknown author
- Benjamin Harrison: Pach Brothers
- William McKinley: Credit on source page
- Theodore Roosevelt: Pach Brothers
- William Howard Taft: Pach Brothers
- Woodrow Wilson: Harris & Ewing, photographer
- Warren G. Harding: Moffett Studio, Chicago
- Calvin Coolidge: Harris & Ewing
- Herbert Hoover: Underwood & Underwood
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Elias Goldensky
- Harry S. Truman: National Archives and Records Administration
- Dwight D. Eisenhower: White House
- John F. Kennedy: Cecil W. Stoughton
- Lyndon B. Johnson: Arnold Newman
- Richard Nixon: U.S. Department of Defense
- Gerald Ford: David Hume Kennerly
- Jimmy Carter: U.S. Department of the Navy
- Ronald Reagan: Michael Evans
- George H. W. Bush: David Valdez
- Bill Clinton: Bob McNeely, The White House
- George W. Bush: Eric Draper
- Barack Obama: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
- Donald Trump: Daniel Torok
- Joe Biden: Adam Schultz