A Democrat or a Republican President?

Posted in current events, politics | November 2nd, 2008

On November 4, America will decide who their next president will be.

Will it be John McCain? Will it be Barack Obama? Will America have the 14th Democrat President or the 20th Republican President? The world willl watch. The world is interested to know.

Interestingly, here’s the list of the US Presidents from http://www.mapsofworld.com/us-presidents/us-president-data.html:

No.	President’s Name	Presidency		Political Party
No.	President’s Name	Date from	to Date	Political Party
1	George Washington	30 Apr 1789	04 Mar 1797	no party
2	John Adams	04 Mar 1797	04 Mar 1801	Federalist
3	Thomas Jefferson	04 Mar 1801	04 Mar 1809	Democratic – Republican
4	James Madison	04 Mar 1809	04 Mar 1817	Democratic – Republican
5	James Monroe	04 Mar 1817	04 Mar 1825	Democratic – Republican
6	John Quincy Adams	04 Mar 1825	04 Mar 1829	Democratic – Republican
7	Andrew Jackson	04 Mar 1829	04 Mar 1837	Democratic
8	Martin Van Buren	04 Mar 1837	04 Mar 1841	Democratic
9	William Henry Harrison	04 Mar 1841	04 Apr 1841	Whig
10	John Tyler	04 Apr 1841	04 Mar 1845	Whig
11	James Knox Polk	04 Mar 1845	03 Mar 1849	Democratic
12	Zachary Taylor	05 Mar 1849	09 Jul 1850	Whig
13	Millard Fillmore	09 Jul 1850	04 Mar 1853	Whig
14	Franklin Pierce	04 Mar 1853	04 Mar 1857	Democratic
15	James Buchanan	04 Mar 1857	04 Mar 1861	Democratic
16	Abraham Lincoln	04 Mar 1861	15 Apr 1865	Republican
17	Andrew Johnson	15 Apr 1865	04 Mar 1869	Republican
18	Ulysses Simpson Grant	04 Mar 1869	04 Mar 1877	Republican
19	Rutherford Birchard Hayes	04 Mar 1877	04 Mar 1881	Republican
20	James Abram Garfield	04 Mar 1881	19 Sep 1881	Republican
21	Chester Alan Arthur	20 Sep 1881	04 Mar 1885	Republican
22	Grover Cleveland	04 Mar 1885	04 Mar 1889	Democratic
23	Benjamin Harrison	04 Mar 1889	04 Mar 1893	Republican
24	Grover Cleveland	04 Mar 1893	04 Mar 1897	Democratic
25	William McKinley	04 Mar 1897	14 Sep 1901	Republican
26	Theodore Roosevelt	14 Sep 1901	04 Mar 1909	Republican
27	William Howard Taft	04 Mar 1909	04 Mar 1913	Republican
28	Woodrow Wilson	04 Mar 1913	04 Mar 1921	Democratic
29	Warren Gamaliel Harding	04 Mar 1921	02 Aug 1923	Republican
30	Calvin Coolidge	03 Aug 1923	04 Mar 1929	Republican
31	Herbert Clark Hoover	04 Mar 1929	04 Mar 1933	Republican
32	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	04 Mar 1933	12 Apr 1945	Democratic
33	Harry S. Truman	12 Apr 1945	20 Jan 1953	Democratic
34	Dwight David Eisenhower	20 Jan 1953	20 Jan 1961	Republican
35	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	20 Jan 1961	22 Nov 1963	Democratic
36	Lyndon Baines Johnson	22 Nov 1963	20 Jan 1969	Democratic
37	Richard Milhous Nixon	20 Jan 1969	09 Aug 1974	Republican
38	Gerald Rudolph Ford	09 Aug 1974	20 Jan 1977	Republican
39	James Earl ‘Jimmy’ Carter	20 Jan 1977	20 Jan 1981	Democratic
40	Ronald Wilson Reagan	20 Jan 1981	20 Jan 1989	Republican
41	George Herbert Walker Bush	20 Jan 1989	20 Jan 1993	Republican
42	William Jefferson ‘Bill’ Clinton	20 Jan 1993	20 Jan 2001	Democratic
43	George Walker Bush	20 Jan 2001		Republican

In 2001, the successor enjoyed the surplus from the Clinton administration. This election year, the successor will have a tough time ahead to revive the ailing economy.

We’ll know…