George W. Bush
When he became president of the United States in 2001, George W. Bush was following in his father’s footsteps. His father, George H.W. Bush, served as president from 1989 to 1993. Pictured here are members of the Bush family: from left to right, George W. Bush, his mother Barbara Bush, and his father George H.W. Bush.
A lifelong baseball fan, George W. Bush bought part of the Texas Rangers baseball team in 1989.
George W. Bush, shown during his first term as president, meets with his Cabinet. Cabinet members advise the president and lead government agencies.
Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United States President Term of office Vice president 1 George Washington 1789-1797 John Adams 2 John Adams 1797-1801 Thomas Jefferson 3 Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809 Aaron Burr (1801-1805)
George Clinton (1805-1809) 4 James Madison 1809-1817 George Clinton (1809-1812)
Elbridge Gerry (1813-1814) 5 James Monroe 1817-1825 Daniel D. Tompkins 6 John Quincy Adams 1825-1829 John C. Calhoun 7 Andrew Jackson 1829-1837 John C. Calhoun (1829-1832)
Martin Van Buren (1833-1837) 8 Martin Van Buren 1837-1841 Richard M. Johnson 9 William Henry Harrison 1841 John Tyler 10 John Tyler 1841-1845 (no vice president) 11 James Knox Polk 1845-1849 George M. Dallas 12 Zachary Taylor 1849-1850 Millard Fillmore 13 Millard Fillmore 1850-1853 (no vice president) 14 Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 William R. King (1853) 15 James Buchanan 1857-1861 John C. Breckinridge 16 Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 Hannibal Hamlin (1861-1865)
Andrew Johnson (1865) 17 Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 (no vice president) 18 Ulysses Simpson Grant 1869-1877 Schuyler Colfax (1869-1873)
Henry Wilson (1873-1875) 19 Rutherford Birchard Hayes 1877-1881 William A. Wheeler 20 James Abram Garfield 1881 Chester A. Arthur 21 Chester Alan Arthur 1881-1885 (no vice president) 22 Grover Cleveland 1885-1889 Thomas A. Hendricks (1885) 23 Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893 Levi P. Morton 24 Grover Cleveland 1893-1897 Adlai E. Stevenson 25 William McKinley 1897-1901 Garret A. Hobart (1897-1899)
Theodore Roosevelt (1901) 26 Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909 Charles W. Fairbanks (1905-1909) 27 William Howard Taft 1909-1913 James S. Sherman (1909-1912) 28 Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921 Thomas R. Marshall 29 Warren Gamaliel Harding 1921-1923 Calvin Coolidge 30 Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929 Charles G. Dawes (1925-1929) 31 Herbert Clark Hoover 1929-1933 Charles Curtis 32 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933-1945 John N. Garner (1933-1941)
Henry A. Wallace (1941-1945)
Harry S. Truman (1945) 33 Harry S. Truman 1945-1953 Alben W. Barkley (1949-1953) 34 Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961 Richard M. Nixon 35 John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1961-1963 Lyndon B. Johnson 36 Lyndon Baines Johnson 1963-1969 Hubert H. Humphrey (1965-1969) 37 Richard Milhous Nixon 1969-1974 Spiro T. Agnew (1969-1973)
Gerald R. Ford (1973-1974) 38 Gerald Rudolph Ford 1974-1977 Nelson A. Rockefeller 39 James Earl Carter 1977-1981 Walter F. Mondale 40 Ronald Reagan 1981-1989 George H. W. Bush 41 George H. W. Bush 1989-1993 Dan Quayle 42 William Jefferson Clinton 1993-2001 Albert Gore, Jr. 43 George W. Bush 2001- Dick Cheney
