The office of President of the United States of America was selected in 1788, and the first election of President brought to power George Washington.

1789 - 1797    George Washington (First President of the USA)

1797 - 1801    John Adams

1801 - 1809    Thomas Jefferson

1809 - 1817    James Madison

1817 - 1825    James Monroe

1825 - 1829    John Quincy Adams

1829 - 1837    Andrew Jackson

1837 - 1841    Martin Van Buren

1841 - 1841   William Henry Harrison

1841 - 1845    John Tyler

1845 - 1849    James Polk

1849 - 1850    Zachary Taylor

1850 - 1853    Millard Fillmore

1853 - 1857    Franklin Pierce

1857 - 1861    James Buchanan

1861 - 1865    Abraham Lincoln (President during US Civil War / Assassinated )

1865 - 1869    Andrew Johnson

1969 - 1877    Ulysses S Grant

1877 - 1881    Rutherford B Hayes

1881 - 1881    James Garfield

1881 - 1885    Chester Arthur

1885 - 1889    Grover Cleveland

1889 - 1893    Benjamin Harrison

1893 - 1897    Grover Cleveland

1897 - 1901    William McKinley

1901 - 1909    Theodore Roosevelt

1909 - 1913    William H Taft

1913 - 1921    Woodrow Wilson (President during World War I)

1921 - 1923    Warren Harding

1923 - 1929    Calvin Coolidge

1929 - 1933    Herbert Hoover

1933 - 1945    Franklin D Roosevelt (President during World War II)

1945 - 1953    Harry S Truman (Authorized use of atomic weapons on Japan)

1953 - 1961    Dwight D Eisenhower (Supreme Allied Commander World War II)

1961 - 1963    John Fitzgerald Kennedy

1963 - 1969    Lyndon B Johnson

1969 - 1974    Richard M Nixon (Only US President to Resign from Office)

1974 - 1977    Gerald Ford (Only US President never to be elected to Office)

1977 - 1981    James E Carter

1981 - 1989    Ronald Reagan (Was a B-Movie actor)

1989 - 1993    George H W Bush (Father)

1993 - 2001    William J Clinton

2001 - 2009    George W Bush (Son)

2009 -            Barrack Hussein Obama (first coloured President)