How many presidents has the United States had?

There have been 47 presidencies but 45 individual presidents: Grover Cleveland (22nd and 24th) and Donald Trump (45th and 47th) each served non-consecutive terms, so each is counted twice.

Do the cards include the years in office?

Yes. Each card's back shows the president's name with the years of that presidency, so you learn the timeline along with the order.

Which presidents do people forget most?

The 1840s to 1850s stretch: Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan. The deck's re-queue loop gives them extra repetitions automatically when you miss them.

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US Presidents in Order Flash Cards

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1st presidentGeorge Washington (1789 to 1797)
2nd presidentJohn Adams (1797 to 1801)
3rd presidentThomas Jefferson (1801 to 1809)
4th presidentJames Madison (1809 to 1817)
5th presidentJames Monroe (1817 to 1825)
6th presidentJohn Quincy Adams (1825 to 1829)
7th presidentAndrew Jackson (1829 to 1837)
8th presidentMartin Van Buren (1837 to 1841)
9th presidentWilliam Henry Harrison (1841)
10th presidentJohn Tyler (1841 to 1845)
11th presidentJames K. Polk (1845 to 1849)
12th presidentZachary Taylor (1849 to 1850)
13th presidentMillard Fillmore (1850 to 1853)
14th presidentFranklin Pierce (1853 to 1857)
15th presidentJames Buchanan (1857 to 1861)
16th presidentAbraham Lincoln (1861 to 1865)
17th presidentAndrew Johnson (1865 to 1869)
18th presidentUlysses S. Grant (1869 to 1877)
19th presidentRutherford B. Hayes (1877 to 1881)
20th presidentJames A. Garfield (1881)
21st presidentChester A. Arthur (1881 to 1885)
22nd presidentGrover Cleveland (1885 to 1889)
23rd presidentBenjamin Harrison (1889 to 1893)
24th presidentGrover Cleveland (1893 to 1897)
25th presidentWilliam McKinley (1897 to 1901)
26th presidentTheodore Roosevelt (1901 to 1909)
27th presidentWilliam Howard Taft (1909 to 1913)
28th presidentWoodrow Wilson (1913 to 1921)
29th presidentWarren G. Harding (1921 to 1923)
30th presidentCalvin Coolidge (1923 to 1929)
31st presidentHerbert Hoover (1929 to 1933)
32nd presidentFranklin D. Roosevelt (1933 to 1945)
33rd presidentHarry S. Truman (1945 to 1953)
34th presidentDwight D. Eisenhower (1953 to 1961)
35th presidentJohn F. Kennedy (1961 to 1963)
36th presidentLyndon B. Johnson (1963 to 1969)
37th presidentRichard Nixon (1969 to 1974)
38th presidentGerald Ford (1974 to 1977)
39th presidentJimmy Carter (1977 to 1981)
40th presidentRonald Reagan (1981 to 1989)
41st presidentGeorge H. W. Bush (1989 to 1993)
42nd presidentBill Clinton (1993 to 2001)
43rd presidentGeorge W. Bush (2001 to 2009)
44th presidentBarack Obama (2009 to 2017)
45th presidentDonald Trump (2017 to 2021)
46th presidentJoe Biden (2021 to 2025)
47th presidentDonald Trump (2025 to present)

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About this deck

Every presidency in order, Washington through the present: one card per number, with the president's name and years in office on the back. Drill them in sequence the first time; once the order starts to hold, the misses the deck re-queues will cluster in the famously forgettable stretches.

Two quirks of the list are worth knowing before you start. Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms, so he's both the 22nd and the 24th president: two cards, one man, and the reason the count of presidencies runs one higher than the count of people. Donald Trump repeated the pattern more recently as the 45th and 47th. And the mid-1800s run from Tyler through Buchanan is where nearly everyone's memory goes soft; expect those cards to come back around a few times.

A trick that helps: chunk the list into eras instead of memorizing 47 loose facts. Think founders (1 to 7), the pre-Civil War drift (8 to 15), war and reconstruction (16 to 19), the Gilded Age (20 to 25), and so on through the modern presidents you already know. The numbers inside each chunk are much easier to pin down once the chunks themselves are solid.

Frequently asked questions

How many presidents has the United States had?: There have been 47 presidencies but 45 individual presidents: Grover Cleveland (22nd and 24th) and Donald Trump (45th and 47th) each served non-consecutive terms, so each is counted twice.
Do the cards include the years in office?: Yes. Each card's back shows the president's name with the years of that presidency, so you learn the timeline along with the order.
Which presidents do people forget most?: The 1840s to 1850s stretch: Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan. The deck's re-queue loop gives them extra repetitions automatically when you miss them.
Is this deck free?: Yes. All 47 cards, free, no account required.

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