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US Presidents in Chronological Order and Their Wars
a table compiled in an evening of looking things upintermittently elaborated and updated thereafter
by Laurie Spiegel
| # | Name | Lived | Held Office | War(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | - | - | King Philip's War (1675) |
| - | - | - | - | King William's War (1689-1697) |
| - | - | - | - | Queen Anne's War (1702-1713) |
| - | - | - | - | Yamasee War (1715-16) (South Carolina Yamasee Tribe) |
| - | - | - | - | King George's War (1744-1748) |
| - | - | - | - | French and Indian Wars (1754-1763) |
| 1 | Washington, George | 1732-1799 | 1789-1797 | Revolutionary War (1775-1783) |
| 2 | Adams, John | 1735-1826 | 1797-1801 | - |
| 3 | Jefferson, Thomas | 1743-1826 | 1801-1809 | Tripolitan War (1801-1805) against Tripoli (now in Libya) |
| 4 | Madison, James | 1751-1836 | 1809-1817 | War of 1812 the Creek War (1813-14) |
| 5 | Monroe, James | 1758-1831 | 1817-1825 | Indian Wars of 1817-1821 First Seminole War (1817-18) Monroe Doctrine (1823) |
| 6 | Adams, John Quincy | 1767-1848 | 1825-1829 | - |
| 7 | Jackson, Andrew "Old Hickory" | 1767-1845 | 1829-1837 | Black Hawk War (1832) Second Seminole War (1835-42) |
| 8 | Van Buren, Martin | 1782-1862 | 1837-1841 | - |
| 9 | Harrison, William Henry* | 1773-1841 | 1841 | - |
| 10 | *Tyler, John | 1790-1862 | 1841-1845 | - |
| 11 | Polk, James Knox | 1795-1849 | 1845-1849 | Mexican War (1846-1848) |
| 12 | *Taylor, Zachary "Old Rough and Ready" | 1784-1850 | 1849-1850 | - |
| 13 | *Fillmore, Millard | 1800-1874 | 1850-1853 | - |
| 14 | Pierce, Franklin | 1804-1869 | 1853-1857 | Third Seminole War (1855-58) |
| 15 | Buchanan, James | 1791-1868 | 1857-1861 | - |
| 16 | Lincoln, Abraham* | 1809-1865 | 1861-1865 | Civil War (1861-65) |
| 17 | *Johnson, Andrew | 1808-1875 | 1865-1869 | - |
| 18 | Grant, Ulysses Simpson (Hiram Ulysses) | 1822-1885 | 1869-1877 | Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876) |
| 19 | Hayes, Rutherford Birchard | 1822-1893 | 1877-1881 | - |
| 20 | Garfield, James Abram* | 1831-1881 | 1881 | - |
| 21 | *Arthur, Chester Alan | 1829-1886 | 1881-1885 | - |
| 22 | Cleveland, (Stephen) Grover | 1837-1908 | 1885-1889 | Apache Wars against Geronimo (1876-1886) |
| 23 | Harrison 2, Benjamin | 1833-1901 | 1889-1893 | 1st Pan-American Conference (1889) |
| 24 | Cleveland, (Stephen) Grover | 1837-1908 | 1893-1897 | - |
| 25 | McKinley, William* | 1843-1901 | 1897-1901 | Spanish-American War (1898) |
| 26 | *Roosevelt, Theodore | 1858-1919 | 1901-1909 | Awareded 1906 Nobel Peace Prize for his mediation in Russo-Japanese War |
| 27 | Taft, William Howard | 1857-1930 | 1909-1913 | - |
| 28 | Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow | 1856-1924 | 1913-1921 | World War I (1914-1918) League of Nations Awarded 1919 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 29 | Harding, Warren Gamaliel* | 1865-1923 | 1921-1923 | - |
| 30 | *Coolidge, (John) Calvin | 1872-1933 | 1923-1929 | - |
| 31 | Hoover, Herbert Clark | 1874-1964 | 1929-1933 | - |
| 32 | Roosevelt, Franklin Delano* | 1882-1945 | 1933-1945 | World War II (1939-1945) |
| 33 | *Truman, Harry S. | 1884-1972 | 1945-1953 | atomic bombing of Japan (1945) Cold War with Soviet Union United Nations, Marshall Plan (1948) NATO (1949) Korean War (1950-1953) |
| 34 | Eisenhower, Dwight David "Ike" | 1890-1969 | 1953-1961 | Cold War with Soviet Union continues |
| 35 | Kennedy, John Fitzgerald* | 1917-1963 | 1961-1963 | established Peace Corps (1961) Bay of Pigs incident |
| 36 | *Johnson, Lyndon Baines | 1908-1973 | 1963-1969 | escalated involvement in Vietnam War (1954-1975) |
| 37 | Nixon, Richard Milhous** | 1913-1994 | 1969-1974 | "War on Drugs" (1971) visited China (1972) détente with U.S.S.R. eventual withdrawal of U.S. troops from Southeast Asia |
| 38 | **Ford, Gerald Rudolph. | 1913- | 1974-1977 | - |
| 39 | Carter, James Earl, Jr. "Jimmy." | 1924- | 1977-1981 | Camp David accords between Egypt and Israel (1979) |
| 40 | Reagan, Ronald Wilson | 1911- | 1981-1989 | military involvements in Grenada, Central America, Lebanon, Libya Cold War subsides (Glasnost with U.S.S.R.) |
| 41 | Bush, George Herbert Walker | 1924- | 1989-1993 | Persian Gulf War I with Iraq (1990) |
| 42 | Clinton, William Jefferson "Bill" | 1946- | 1993-2001 | Persian Gulf War II with Iraq (1999) Serbia vs. Bosnia, Kosovo, NATO... |
| 43 | Bush, George W. "Dubya" | 1946- | 2001-2009 | Afgan War against the Talliban and Al Qaeda (2001...) Iraqi Invasion and Occupation (2003...) "War on Terror" |
| 44 | Obama, Barack Hussein II | 1961- | 2009- | "Pashtunistan - Waziristan War" or (as I also choose to call it) "The War Across the Durand Line", continuing legacy of all G. W. Bush Administration wars. Awarded 2009 Nobel Peace Prize |
Use of asterisks (*):
| name* | died in office |
| *name | replaced preceding President who died |
| name** | left office before completion of term |
| **name | replaced preceding living President |
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