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Office History
A derived timeline of office holders generated from PoliticaHub office terms.
2025 – present
Election: US 2024 Presidential Election
2021 – 2025
Election: US 2020 Presidential Election
2017 – 2021
Election: US 2016 Presidential Election
2013 – 2017
Election: US 2012 Presidential Election
2009 – 2013
Election: US 2008 Presidential Election
2005 – 2009
Election: US 2004 Presidential Election
2001 – 2005
Election: US 2000 Presidential Election
1997 – 2001
Election: US 1996 Presidential Election
1993 – 1997
Election: US 1992 Presidential Election
1989 – 1993
Election: US 1988 Presidential Election
1985 – 1989
Election: US 1984 Presidential Election
1981 – 1985
Election: US 1980 Presidential Election
1977 – 1981
Election: US 1976 Presidential Election
1974 – 1977
Assumed presidency after Nixon's resignation. Never elected as president or vice president.
1973 – 1974
Election: US 1972 Presidential Election
Resigned from office on August 9, 1974, due to the Watergate scandal.
1969 – 1973
Election: US 1968 Presidential Election
1965 – 1969
Election: US 1964 Presidential Election
1963 – 1965
Assumed presidency after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
1961 – 1963
Election: US 1960 Presidential Election
Assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.
1957 – 1961
Election: US 1956 Presidential Election
1953 – 1957
Election: US 1952 Presidential Election
1945 – 1953
Election: US 1948 Presidential Election
Assumed presidency after Roosevelt's death. Won own full term in 1948.
1945 – 1945
Election: US 1944 Presidential Election
Fourth term. Died in office at Warm Springs, Georgia, April 12, 1945.
1941 – 1945
Election: US 1940 Presidential Election
Third term — broke the two-term tradition set by Washington.
1937 – 1941
Election: US 1936 Presidential Election
Second term. Won historic 523–8 electoral college landslide.
1933 – 1937
Election: US 1932 Presidential Election
First term. Launched the New Deal immediately upon inauguration.
1865 – 1865
Election: US 1864 Presidential Election
Second term. Delivered Second Inaugural Address. Assassinated at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865; died the following morning.
1861 – 1865
Election: US 1860 Presidential Election
First term. Confederate states began seceding before inauguration. Fort Sumter attack began the Civil War in April 1861.