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HIST 1302 Course Guide

STC Collection Highlights

Timeline: United States Presidents

1865

  • Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in Washington, D.C. and succeeded by Andrew Johnson

1868

  • President Johnson is impeached by the House of Representatives and acquitted by the Senate

1869

  • Ulysses S. Grant becomes the 18th president

1877

  • Rutherford B. Hayes becomes the 19th president; he has the first telephone installed in the White House the following year

1881

  • March 4: James Garfield becomes the 20th president
  • July 2: Garfield is shot in an attempted assassination
  • September 14: Garfield dies from his wounds and Chester Alan Arthur becomes 21st president

1885

  • Grover Cleveland becomes the 22nd president

1889

  • Benjamin Harrison becomes the 23rd president

1893

  • Grover Cleveland is elected again and becomes the 24th president; he is the only president to serve non-consecutive terms

1897

  • William McKinley becomes the 25th president

1901

  • March 4: McKinley is inaugurated to a second term
  • September 6: McKinley is shot in an assassination attempt
  • September 14: McKinley is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt

1905

  • Theodore Roosevelt is inaugurated a second time

1909

  • William Howard Taft becomes the 27th president
  • Helen Herron Taft, the First Lady, has 80 Japanese cherry trees planted along the Potomac River

1913

  • Woodrow Wilson becomes the 28th president; he wins again in 1917

1919

  • Wilson suffers a stroke and becomes incapacitated

1921

  • Warren Gamaliel Harding becomes the 29th president

1923

  • President Harding dies suddenly
  • Calvin Coolidge, the vice president, becomes the 30th president

1925

  • Coolidge wins reelection and is inaugurated a second time

1929

  • Herbert Hoover becomes the 31st president

1933

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes the 32nd president

1937

  • FDR wins reelection and is inaugurated a second time

1941

  • FDR wins reelection and is inaugurated a third time, the first and only president to win a third term

1945

  • January 20: FDR wins reelection and is inaugurated a fourth time
  • April 12: FDR dies of a stroke
  • Harry S. Truman, his vice president, becomes the 33rd president

1949

  • Truman is inaugurated a second time

1953

  • Dwight David Eisenhower becomes the 34th president

1957

  • Eisenhower is inaugurated to his second term

1961

  • John Fitzgerald Kennedy becomes the 35th president

1963

  • JFK is assassinated in Dallas, Texas
  • Lyndon Baines Johnson, his vice president, becomes the 36th president

1965

  • LBJ is inaugurated to his second term

1969

  • Richard Nixon becomes the 37th president

1973

  • Richard Nixon is inaugurated to his second term
  • Nixon's vice president, Spiro Agnew, resigns over charges of corruption and income tax evasion
  • Nixon nominates Gerald Rudolph Ford for vice president

1974

  • Nixon resigns the presidency over Watergate
  • Gerald Ford becomes the 38th president
  • Ford fully pardons Nixon

1977

  • Jimmy Carter becomes the 39th president

1981

  • Ronald Reagan becomes the 40th president

1985

  • Reagan is inaugurated to his second term

1989

  • George Herbert Walker Bush becomes the 41st president

1993

  • William Jefferson Clinton becomes the 42nd president

1997

  • Clinton is inaugurated to his second term

1998

  • The House of Representatives votes to impeach Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice

1999

  • The Senate votes to acquit Clinton of impeachment charges

2000

  • The election between Al Gore and George W. Bush results in no clear winner. More than a month after the presidential election, the U.S. Supreme Court rules against a manual recount of ballots in certain Florida counties.

2001

  • George Walker Bush becomes the 43rd president.

2005

  • George W. Bush is inaugurated to his second term.

2009

  • Barack Hussein Obama becomes the 44th president. He is the first African American to hold the office and the first president born outside the continental United States.

2013

  • Obama is inaugurated to his second term.

2017

  • Donald John Trump becomes the 45th president.

2019

  • Trump is impeached by the House of Representatives for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

2020

  • Trump is acquitted by the Senate.
  • Trump loses reelection to Joe Biden and claims widespread election fraud.

2021

  • As Congress convenes to certify election votes, Trump appears at a rally of his supporters. An insurrection at the Capitol happens shortly after, and members of Congress are forced into lockdown.
  • Trump is charged with incitement of insurrection and impeached by the House of Representatives for a second time. It is the most rapid impeachment in United States history; ten Republicans voted in favor of impeachment.
  • Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. becomes the 46th president.
  • The Senate acquits Trump after he has left office.