: Prints and Photographs Division, | Died September 14, 1901; see for further details |
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Reflects the president's political party at the start of their presidency | Near the end of his presidency, Johnson rejoined the Democratic Party |
Political parties had not been anticipated when the Constitution was drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1788, nor did they exist at the time of the first presidential election in 1788—89.
18Kelly, Martin February 17, 2020 | Reflects the president's political party at the start of their presidency |
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Also reflects the vice president's political party unless otherwise noted beside the individual's name |
Federalist John Adams was elected president, and Jefferson of the Democratic-Republicans was elected vice president.
Calvin Coolidge was initially sworn in as president on August 3, 1923, and then again on August 21 | His policy priorities as president soon proved to be opposed to most of the Whig agenda, and he was expelled from the party in September 1841 |
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Grover Cleveland was both the 22nd president and the 24th president because his two terms were not consecutive | 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 |
Upon the resignation of 37th president Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford became the 38th president even though he simply served out the remainder of Nixon's second term and was never elected to the presidency in his own right.