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Find information about U.S. presidents, including party affiliation, term in office, state of birth, birth and death dates, religion, age at inauguration, and age at death — updated as of Jan. 20, 2025.
| Name and (party)1 | Term | State of birth |
Born | Died | Religion2 | Age at inaug. |
Age at death |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Washington (F)3 | 1789–1797 | Va. | 2/22/1732 | 12/14/1799 | Episcopalian | 57 | 67 |
| 2. | J. Adams (F) | 1797–1801 | Mass. | 10/30/1735 | 7/4/1826 | Unitarian | 61 | 90 |
| 3. | Jefferson (DR) | 1801–1809 | Va. | 4/13/1743 | 7/4/1826 | Deist | 57 | 83 |
| 4. | Madison (DR) | 1809–1817 | Va. | 3/16/1751 | 6/28/1836 | Episcopalian | 57 | 85 |
| 5. | Monroe (DR) | 1817–1825 | Va. | 4/28/1758 | 7/4/1831 | Episcopalian | 58 | 73 |
| 6. | J. Q. Adams (DR) | 1825–1829 | Mass. | 7/11/1767 | 2/23/1848 | Unitarian | 57 | 80 |
| 7. | Jackson (D) | 1829–1837 | S.C. | 3/15/1767 | 6/8/1845 | Presbyterian | 61 | 78 |
| 8. | Van Buren (D) | 1837–1841 | N.Y. | 12/5/1782 | 7/24/1862 | Reformed Dutch | 54 | 79 |
| 9. | W. H. Harrison (W)4 | 1841 | Va. | 2/9/1773 | 4/4/1841 | Episcopalian | 68 | 68 |
| 10. | Tyler (W) | 1841–1845 | Va. | 3/29/1790 | 1/18/1862 | Episcopalian | 51 | 71 |
| 11. | Polk (D) | 1845–1849 | N.C. | 11/2/1795 | 6/15/1849 | Methodist | 49 | 53 |
| 12. | Taylor (W)4 | 1849–1850 | Va. | 11/24/1784 | 7/9/1850 | Episcopalian | 64 | 65 |
| 13. | Fillmore (W) | 1850–1853 | N.Y. | 1/7/1800 | 3/8/1874 | Unitarian | 50 | 74 |
| 14. | Pierce (D) | 1853–1857 | N.H. | 11/23/1804 | 10/8/1869 | Episcopalian | 48 | 64 |
| 15. | Buchanan (D) | 1857–1861 | Pa. | 4/23/1791 | 6/1/1868 | Presbyterian | 65 | 77 |
| 16. | Lincoln (R)5 | 1861–1865 | Ky. | 2/12/1809 | 4/15/1865 | (5.5) | 52 | 56 |
| 17. | A. Johnson (U)6 | 1865–1869 | N.C. | 12/29/1808 | 7/31/1875 | (7) | 56 | 66 |
| 18. | Grant (R) | 1869–1877 | Ohio | 4/27/1822 | 7/23/1885 | Methodist | 46 | 63 |
| 19. | Hayes (R) | 1877–1881 | Ohio | 10/4/1822 | 1/17/1893 | Methodist | 54 | 70 |
| 20. | Garfield (R)5 | 1881 | Ohio | 11/19/1831 | 9/19/1881 | Disciples of Christ | 49 | 49 |
| 21. | Arthur (R) | 1881–1885 | Vt. | 10/5/1829 | 11/18/1886 | Episcopalian | 50 | 56 |
| 22. | Cleveland (D) | 1885–1889 | N.J. | 3/18/1837 | 6/24/1908 | Presbyterian | 47 | 71 |
| 23. | B. Harrison (R) | 1889–1893 | Ohio | 8/20/1833 | 3/13/1901 | Presbyterian | 55 | 67 |
| 24. | Cleveland (D)8 | 1893–1897 | N.J. | 3/18/1837 | 6/24/1908 | Presbyterian | 55 | 71 |
| 25. | McKinley (R)5 | 1897–1901 | Ohio | 1/29/1843 | 9/14/1901 | Methodist | 54 | 58 |
| 26. | T. Roosevelt (R) | 1901–1909 | N.Y. | 10/27/1858 | 1/6/1919 | Reformed Dutch | 42 | 60 |
| 27. | Taft (R) | 1909–1913 | Ohio | 9/15/1857 | 3/8/1930 | Unitarian | 51 | 72 |
| 28. | Wilson (D) | 1913–1921 | Va. | 12/28/1856 | 2/3/1924 | Presbyterian | 56 | 67 |
| 29. | Harding (R)4 | 1921–1923 | Ohio | 11/2/1865 | 8/2/1923 | Baptist | 55 | 57 |
| 30. | Coolidge (R) | 1923–1929 | Vt. | 7/4/1872 | 1/5/1933 | Congregationalist | 51 | 60 |
| 31. | Hoover (R) | 1929–1933 | Iowa | 8/10/1874 | 10/20/1964 | Quaker | 54 | 90 |
| 32. | F. D. Roosevelt (D)4 | 1933–1945 | N.Y. | 1/30/1882 | 4/12/1945 | Episcopalian | 51 | 63 |
| 33. | Truman (D) | 1945–1953 | Mo. | 5/8/1884 | 12/26/1972 | Baptist | 60 | 88 |
| 34. | Eisenhower (R) | 1953–1961 | Tex. | 10/14/1890 | 3/28/1969 | Presbyterian | 62 | 78 |
| 35. | Kennedy (D)5 | 1961–1963 | Mass. | 5/29/1917 | 11/22/1963 | Roman Catholic | 43 | 46 |
| 36. | L. B. Johnson (D) | 1963–1969 | Tex. | 8/27/1908 | 1/22/1973 | Disciples of Christ | 55 | 64 |
| 37. | Nixon (R)9 | 1969–1974 | Calif. | 1/9/1913 | 4/22/1994 | Quaker | 56 | 81 |
| 38. | Ford (R) | 1974–1977 | Neb. | 7/14/1913 | 12/26/2006 | Episcopalian | 61 | 93 |
| 39. | Carter (D) | 1977–1981 | Ga. | 10/1/1924 | 12/29/2024 | Southern Baptist | 52 | 100 |
| 40. | Reagan (R) | 1981–1989 | Ill. | 2/6/1911 | 6/5/2004 | Disciples of Christ | 69 | 93 |
| 41. | G.H.W. Bush (R) | 1989–1993 | Mass. | 6/12/1924 | 11/30/2018 | Episcopalian | 64 | 94 |
| 42. | Clinton (D) | 1993–2001 | Ark. | 8/19/1946 | — | Baptist | 46 | — |
| 43. | G. W. Bush (R) | 2001–2009 | Conn. | 7/6/1946 | — | Methodist | 54 | — |
| 44. | Obama (D) | 2009–2017 | Hawaii | 8/4/1961 | — | United Church of Christ | 47 | — |
| 45. | Trump (R) | 2017–2021 | N.Y. | 6/14/1946 | — | Christian (non-denominational) | 70 | — |
| 46. | Biden (D) | 2021–2025 | Del. | 11/20/1942 | — | Catholic | 78 | — |
| 47. | Trump (R)10 | 2025– | N.Y. | 6/14/1946 | — | Christian (non-denominational) | 78 | — |
NOTE:
1. F—Federalist; DR—Democratic-Republican; D—Democratic; W—Whig; R—Republican; U—Union.
2. Religious affiliation at election. Several presidents changed religions during their lifetimes.
3. No party for first election. The party system in the U.S. made its appearance during Washington's first term.
4. Died in office.
5. Assassinated in office.
5.5 Lincoln was not a professed church member.
6. The Republican National Convention of 1864 adopted the name Union Party. It renominated Lincoln for president; for vice president it nominated Johnson, a War Democrat. Although frequently listed as a Republican vice president and president, Johnson undoubtedly considered himself strictly a member of the Union Party. When that party broke apart after 1868, he returned to the Democratic Party.
7. Johnson was not a professed church member; however, he admired the Baptist principles of church government.
8. Second nonconsecutive term (Grover Cleveland).
9. Resigned Aug. 9, 1974.
10. Second nonconsecutive term (also served as 45th president).
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