President of the United States

The President of the United States, or (POTUS) for short, also known as The Commander in Chief or even The Leader of the Free World, is the head of government and state for the United States of America. The country's first president was George Washington, who served from 1789 to 1797. Washington was originally offered a monarchical title, but instead determined the country should have a president, duly elected by the people. 

Josiah Bartlet is the President of the United States for the entire series. His successor, Matthew Santos, is inaugurated in the series finale, Tomorrow. For a short time in Season Five, House Speaker Glen Allen Walken becomes acting president.

Below is a list of Presidents of the United States. Obviously, at some point the history and the fiction become entangled as President Josiah Bartlet was elected in 1998, which was not a year in which the quadrennial presidential election would have taken place in real life. Additionally, the identification of at least two known predecessors to President Bartlet (D. Wire Newman and Owen Lassiter), further blurs the office holders. Richard Nixon is the last real-life President to have been mentioned on the show. Visit the Timeline for more information.

The chart below shows those individuals who served as President of the United States. The final column shows episode references to when that particular president was mentioned or discussed. One of the most prominent presidents featured in the show was Andrew Jackson, popular for the "Big Block of Cheese" days episodes.

List of Presidents of the United States

Image	President	Prior Office	Party		Timeline	Referenced in
	George Washington	Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army (1775-1783)		No Party	April 30, 1789 - March 4, 1797	Six Meetings Before Lunch
	John Adams	Vice President of the United States (1789-1797)		Federalist	March 4, 1797 - March 4, 1801	Jefferson Lives
	Thomas Jefferson	Vice President of the United States (1797-1801)		Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1801 - March 4, 1809	Jefferson Lives
	James Madison	United States Secretary of State (1801-1809)		Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1809 - March 4, 1817	Let Bartlet Be Bartlet
	James Monroe	United States Secretary of State (1811-1817)		Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1817 - March 4, 1825
	John Quincy Adams	United States Secretary of State (1817-1825)		Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1825 - March 4, 1829	The U.S. Poet Laureate
	Andrew Jackson	U.S. Senator from Tennessee (1797-1798 & 1823-1825)		Democrat	March 4, 1829 - March 4, 1837	The Crackpots and These Women, H.Con - 172
	Martin Van Buren	Vice President of the United States (1833-1837)		Democrat	March 4, 1837 - March 4, 1841
	William Henry Harrison	United States Minister to Columbia (1828-1829)		Whig	March 4, 1841 - April 4, 1841	Tomorrow
	John Tyler	Vice President of the United States (1841)		Whig	April 6, 1841 - March 4, 1845
	James Polk	Governor of Tennessee (1839-1841)		Democrat	March 4, 1845 - March 4, 1849	The Fall's Gonna Kill You
	Zachary Taylor	Major General of the U.S. Army (1846-1849)		Whig	March 4, 1849 - July 9, 1850
	Millard Fillmore	Vice President of the United States (1849-1850)		Whig	July 9, 1850 - March 4, 1853
	Franklin Pierce	Brigadier General of the U.S. Army (1847-1848)		Democrat	March 4, 1853 - March 4, 1857	The Dogs of War
	James Buchanan	United States Minister to the Court of St James (1853-1856)		Democrat	March 4, 1857 - March 4, 1861	Night Five
	Abraham Lincoln	U.S. Representative for Illinois' 7th District (1847-1849)		Republican	March 4, 1861 - April 15, 1865	Six Meetings Before Lunch
	Andrew Johnson	Vice President of the United States (1865)		Democrat	April 15, 1865 - March 4, 1869	The Leadership Breakfast, Six Meetings Before Lunch
	Ulysses S. Grant	Commanding General of the U.S. Army (1864-1869)		Republican	March 4, 1869 - March 4, 1877	Enemies
	Rutherford Hayes	Governor of Ohio (1868-1872 & 1876-1877)		Republican	March 4, 1877 - March 4, 1881	Night Five
	James A. Garfield	U.S. Representative for Ohio's 19th District (1863-1881)		Republican	March 4 to September 19, 1881
	Chester A. Arthur	Vice President of the United States (1881)		Republican	September 19, 1881 - March 4, 1885
	Grover Cleveland	Governor of New York (1883-1885)		Democrat	March 4, 1885 - March 4, 1889
	Benjamin Harrison	U.S. Senator from Indiana (1881-1887)		Republican	March 4, 1889 - March 4 1893	The Leadership Breakfast, Guns Not Butter
	Grover Cleveland	President of the United States (1885-1889)		Democrat	March 4, 1893 - March 3, 1897
	William McKinley	Governor of Ohio (1892-1896)		Republican	March 4, 1897 - September 14, 1901	Memorial Day
	Theodore Roosevelt	Vice President of the United States (1901)		Republican	September 14, 1901 - March 4, 1909	Pilot
	William Howard Taft	United States Secretary of War (1904-1908)		Republican	March 4, 1909 - March 4, 1913	Memorial Day
	Woodrow Wilson	Governor of New Jersey (1911-1913)		Democrat	March 4, 1913 - March 4, 1921	Noel , Bartlet for America
	Warren Harding	U.S. Senator from Ohio (1915-1921)		Republican	March 4, 1921 - August 2, 1923	Guns Not Butter
	Calvin Coolidge	Vice President of the United States (1921-1923)		Republican	August 3, 1923 - March 3, 1929	Third Day Story
	Herbert Hoover	United States Secretary of Commerce (1921-1928)		Republican	March 4, 1929 - March 3, 1933	20 Hours in America (Part II)
	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	Governor of New York (1929-1932)		Democrat	March 4, 1933 - April 12, 1945	Pilot
	Harry S. Truman	Vice President of the United States (1945)		Democrat	April 12, 1945 - January 20, 1953	The State Dinner; 7A WF 83429; 20 Hours in America, Part II
	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Supreme Allied Commander Europe (1949-1952)		Republican	January 20, 1953 - January 20, 1961	Bartlet for America
	John F. Kennedy	U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1953-1960)		Democrat	January 20, 1961 - November 22, 1963	Bartlet for America
	Lyndon B. Johnson	Vice President of the United States (1961-1963)		Democrat	November 22, 1963 - January 20, 1969	Five Votes Down
File:Richard Nixon.gif	Richard M. Nixon	Vice President of the United States (1953-1961)		Republican	January 20, 1969 - August 9, 1974	Six Meetings Before Lunch
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	Ronald Reagan	Governor of California		Republican	Two Terms	The Stormy Present
	D. Wire Newman	???		Democrat	One Term	The Stormy Present
	Owen Lassiter	Governor of California		Republican	January 20, 1991 - January 20, 1999	The Short List; Memorial Day
File:JosiahBartlet.jpg	Josiah Bartlet	Governor of New Hampshire (1991-1999)		Democrat	January 20, 1999 - January 20, 2007	Pilot; Tomorrow
File:MatthewSantos.jpg	Matthew Santos	U.S. Representative for Texas' 18th District (2001-2007)		Democrat	January 20, 2007- ???	Tomorrow