U.S. Presidents and Inaugurations

Depiction of George Washington as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.

The surrender of Cornwallis in 1781 ended the last major military campaign of the American Revolution.

George Washington's presidential reception in New York in 1789 after his presidential election.

John Adams was the second president of the United States from 1797-1801.

Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States from 1801-1809.

James Madison was fourth President of the United States from 1809-1817.

James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States from 1817-1825.

John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States 1825-1829.

Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States from 1829-1837.

Martin Van Buren was the eight President of the United States from 1837-1841.

William Henry Harrison was the ninth President of the United States in 1841 and died in office the same year.

John Tyler was the tenth President of the United States from 1841-1845.

Fun fact: The polka dot was named after the polka dance craze of the 19th century and became popular as a signature fashion pattern in the United States during the election campaign of James K. Polk.

Zachary Taylor was the twelfth President of the United States from 1849-1850; he died in office.

Millard Fillmore was the thirteenth President of the United States from 1850-1853.

Franklin Pierce was the fourteenth President of the United States from 1852-1857.

James Buchanan was the fifteenth President of the United States from 1857-1861.

Abraham Lincoln, as a boy, reading in a cabin.

The "Wide-a-wake" procession was part of a movement to help secure Abraham Lincoln the Republican nomination.

Abraham Lincoln arrives in Washington D.C. after his whistle-stop trip from Springfield, Illinois in 1861. The trip took place before Lincoln's inauguration in March of 1861.

Abraham Lincoln before his first inauguration in 1861, with President Buchanan.

Inaugural procession of Abraham Lincoln.

The U.S. Capitol Building was still under construction at the time of Lincoln's first inauguration.

While The U.S. Capitol Building was still under construction until 1868, the dome was in more of a completed state for Lincoln's second inauguration in 1865.

Abraham Lincoln's public reception at the the White House in celebration of his second inauguration as U.S. President in 1865.

Notice for the Ball in celebration of Lincoln's second inauguration in 1865.

Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.

Andrew Johnson was the seventeenth President of the United States from 1865-1869.

Ulysses S. Grant was the eighteenth President of the United States from 1869-1877.

Rutherford B. Hayes was the nineteenth President of the United States from 1877-1881.

James A. Garfield was the twentieth President of the United States in 1881 and was assassinated in office that same year.

Chester A. Arthur was the twenty-first President of the United States from 1881-1885.

Grover Cleveland was the twenty-second President of the United States from 1885-1889.

Benjamin Harrison was the twenty-third President of the United States from 1889-1893.

John F. Kennedy was the thirty-fith President of the United States from 1961-1963.

Lyndon B. Johnson was the thirty-sixth President of the United States from 1963-1969.