REPUBLICAN U.S. PRESIDENTS LIST

The Republican Party, referred to as the GOP (for "Grand Old Party") emerged in the early 1800s to combat the expansion of slavery in the United States. There have been eighteen Republican Presidents of the United States of America; see below for a list of who these Republican Presidents were. Several of these presidents, like Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, are regarded as great U.S. Presidents; whereas others like Richard M. Nixon are usually included in the list of worst U.S. Presidents. On this page we not only list all the Republican Presidents but also include interesting facts about them and links to detail pages about many of them. This information is written for both kids and adults.

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List of Republican U.S. Presidents

The below list includes the presidents in order of their term in office and includes the dates they served.

Abraham Lincoln (Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865)
Ulysses S. Grant (Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877)
Rutherford B. Hayes (Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881)
James Garfield (Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881)
Chester A. Arthur (Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885)
Benjamin Harrison (Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893)
William McKinley (Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901)
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt (Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909)
William H. Taft (Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913)
Warren G. Harding (Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923)
Calvin Coolidge (Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929)
Herbert C. Hoover (Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961)
Richard M. Nixon (Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974)
Gerald R. Ford (Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977)
Ronald W. Reagan (Jan 20, 1981 - Jan 20, 1989)
George H. W. Bush (Jan 20, 1989 - Jan 20, 1993)
George W. Bush (Jan 20, 2001 - Jan 20, 2009)
Donald Trump (2017 - Present)

Interesting and Fun Republican Presidents Facts

The Republican Party is the second oldest existing political party in the U.S.; the Democratic Party has been around longer.
The first Republican to run for president was John C. Fremont in 1856; he lost the presidential election.
The first Republican President was Abraham Lincoln who is usually considered the best U.S. President and is also unfortunately famous for being the first U.S. President to be assassinated. The Republican Party is often called the Party of Lincoln.
Three Republican Presidents have been assassinated; Abraham Lincoln in 1865, James A. Garfield in 1881, and William McKinley in 1901. The only other U.S President assassinated was John F. Kennedy, a member of the Democratic Party, in 1963.
Lincoln was the first president to have a beard while serving as President.
Although several U.S. Presidents served as soldiers during the American Civil War, Rutherford B. Hayes was the only one wounded in the war.
Republican President Rutherford B. Hayes was the first U.S. President to use a telephone while serving as President. Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone, installed a telephone in the White House in 1879.
Benjamin Harrison was the grandson of the 9th President of the United States, William Henry Harrison.
William H. Taft was the first president to own a car.
Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to travel outside of the United States while serving as President. Roosevelt traveled to Panama in 1906.
The Republican Party controlled the presidency in the 1920s starting on March 4th of 1921 with the presidency of Warren G. Harding, followed by Calvin Coolidge in 1923, and then by Herbert C. Hoover in 1929.