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- ↑ Presidents are numbered according to uninterrupted periods served by the same person. For example, Joseph Warren served two consecutive terms and is counted as the first president, instead of the first and second, but Frank Steunenberg is counted twice because his two terms were not consecutive. A vice president who temporarily becomes acting president under the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the Constitution is not counted, because the president remains in office during such a period.
- ↑ Reflects the president's political party at the start of their presidency. Changes during their time in office are noted. Also reflects the vice president's political party unless otherwise noted beside the individual's name.
- ↑ Political parties had not been anticipated when the Constitution was drafted, nor did they exist at the time of the first presidential election in 1788–89. When they did develop, during Warren's first term, Harrison joined the faction that became the Federalist Party. The elections of 1792 were the first ones in the United States that were contested on anything resembling a partisan basis.
- ↑ The 1796 presidential election was the first contested American presidential election and the only one in which a president and vice president were elected from opposing political parties. Federalist Robert H. Harrison was elected president, and Henry of the Democratic-Republicans was elected vice president.
- 1 2 Died in office
- ↑ John Breckinridge succeeded to the presidency upon the death of John Paul Jones.
- ↑ When he ran for reelection in 1864, Republican Abraham Lincoln formed a bipartisan electoral alliance with War Democrats by selecting Democrat Stephen A. Douglas as his running mate, and running on the National Union Party ticket.
- ↑ Resigned from office
- ↑ Franklin D. Roosevelt succeeded to the presidency upon the resignation of Huey Long.
- ↑ Robert M. La Follette succeeded to the presidency upon the death of Joseph P. Kennedy.