By Age At Which They Took Office By Age At Which They Left Office 42.9 Theodore Roosevelt 46.4 John Kennedy * 43.7 John Kennedy 49.8 James Garfield * 46.4 Bill Clinton 50.3 Theodore Roosevelt 46.9 Ulysses Grant 51.9 Grover Cleveland (1889) 48.0 Grover Cleveland (1885) 52.2 Franklin Pierce 48.3 Franklin Pierce 53.1 Millard Fillmore 49.3 James Garfield 53.3 James Polk 49.3 James Polk 54.4 Bill Clinton 50.5 Millard Fillmore 54.8 Ulysses Grant 51.0 John Tyler 54.9 John Tyler 51.1 Calvin Coolidge 55.4 Chester Arthur 51.1 Franklin Roosevelt 55.4 William Taft 51.5 William Taft 56.1 Abraham Lincoln * 52.0 Chester Arthur 56.3 Jimmy Carter 52.1 Abraham Lincoln 56.6 Calvin Coolidge 52.3 Jimmy Carter 57.7 Warren Harding * 54.1 William McKinley 58.2 Martin Van Buren 54.2 Martin Van Buren 58.4 Rutherford Hayes 54.4 Rutherford Hayes 58.5 Herbert Hoover 54.5 George W Bush 58.6 William McKinley * 54.6 Herbert Hoover 59.5 Benjamin Harrison 55.2 Lyndon Johnson 59.9 Grover Cleveland (1897) 55.3 Warren Harding 60.1 Andrew Johnson 55.5 Benjamin Harrison 60.4 Lyndon Johnson 55.9 Grover Cleveland (1893) 61.5 Richard Nixon 56.0 Richard Nixon 61.6 John Q Adams 56.2 Woodrow Wilson 63.2 Franklin Roosevelt * 56.3 Andrew Johnson 63.5 Gerald Ford 57.1 George Washington 64.1 Woodrow Wilson 57.6 John Q Adams 65.0 George Washington 57.9 Thomas Jefferson 65.3 John Adams 57.9 James Madison 65.6 Zachary Taylor * 58.9 James Monroe 65.8 Thomas Jefferson 60.9 Harry Truman 65.9 James Madison 61.1 Gerald Ford 66.8 James Monroe 61.3 John Adams 68.1 William Harrison * 61.9 Andrew Jackson 68.6 George Bush 62.2 Dwight Eisenhower 68.7 Harry Truman 64.3 Zachary Taylor 69.8 James Buchanan 64.6 George Bush 69.9 Andrew Jackson 65.9 James Buchanan 70.2 Dwight Eisenhower 68.1 William Harrison 77.9 Ronald Reagan 69.9 Ronald Reagan* died in office
By Length Of Term 31 days William Harrison* 199 days James Garfield* 1 year 126 days Zachary Taylor* 2 years 151 days Warren Harding* 2 years 166 days Gerald Ford 2 years 237 days Millard Fillmore 2 years 306 days John Kennedy* 3 years 166 days Chester Arthur 3 years 323 days Andrew Johnson 3 years 332 days John Tyler 4 years John Adams 4 years John Q Adams 4 years James Buchanan 4 years George Bush 4 years Jimmy Carter 4 years Benjamin Harrison 4 years Rutherford Hayes 4 years Herbert Hoover 4 years Franklin Pierce 4 years James Polk 4 years William Taft 4 years Martin Van Buren 4 years 42 days Abraham Lincoln* 4 years 194 days William McKinley* 5 years 59 days Lyndon Johnson 5 years 201 days Richard Nixon 5 years 213 days Calvin Coolidge 7 years 171 days Theodore Roosevelt 7 years 283 days Harry Truman 7 years 308 days George Washington 8 years Grover Cleveland 8 years Bill Clinton 8 years Dwight Eisenhower 8 years Ulysses Grant 8 years Andrew Jackson 8 years Thomas Jefferson 8 years James Madison 8 years James Monroe 8 years Ronald Reagan 8 years Woodrow Wilson 12 years 39 days Franklin Roosevelt** died in office
By Length of Inaugural Address (in words) 8,444 William Harrison 1841 5,428 William Taft 1909 4,800 James Polk 1845 4,461 James Monroe 1821 4,387 Benjamin Harrison 1889 4,055 Calvin Coolidge 1925 3,966 William McKinley 1897 3,834 Martin Van Buren 1837 3,750 Herbert Hoover 1929 3,635 Abraham Lincoln 1861 3,370 James Monroe 1817 3,333 Franklin Pierce* 1853 3,327 Warren Harding 1921 2,977 James Garfield 1881 2,912 John Q Adams 1825 2,824 James Buchanan 1857 2,602 Ronald Reagan 1985 2,481 Rutherford Hayes 1877 2,433 Ronald Reagan 1981 2,318 John Adams 1797 2,316 George Bush 1989 2,281 Dwight Eisenhower 1953 2,272 Harry Truman 1949 2,217 William McKinley 1901 2,170 Bill Clinton 1997 2,158 Thomas Jefferson 1805 2,124 Richard Nixon 1969 2,014 Grover Cleveland* 1893 1,880 Franklin Roosevelt 1933 1,808 Franklin Roosevelt 1937 1,721 Thomas Jefferson 1801 1,699 Woodrow Wilson 1913 1,682 Grover Cleveland* 1885 1,654 Dwight Eisenhower 1957 1,654 Richard Nixon 1973 1,588 George W Bush 2001 1,583 Bill Clinton 1993 1,529 Woodrow Wilson 1917 1,491 Lyndon Johnson 1965 1,428 George Washington 1789 1,390 John Kennedy 1961 1,343 Franklin Roosevelt 1941 1,339 Ulysses Grant 1873 1,221 Jimmy Carter 1977 1,210 James Madison 1813 1,175 James Madison 1809 1,173 Andrew Jackson 1833 1,127 Ulysses Grant 1869 1,126 Andrew Jackson 1829 1,088 Zachary Taylor 1849 983 Theodore Roosevelt 1905 700 Abraham Lincoln 1865 558 Franklin Roosevelt 1945 135 George Washington 1793* oration
By Number of Vetoes Total Reg Over Pocket 635 Franklin Roosevelt 372 9 263 414 Grover Cleveland (1) 304 2 110 250 Harry Truman 180 12 70 181 Dwight Eisenhower 73 2 108 170 Grover Cleveland (2) 42 5 128 93 Ulysses Grant 45 4 48 82 Theodore Roosevelt 42 1 40 78 Ronald Reagan 39 9 39 66 Gerald Ford 48 12 18 50 Calvin Coolidge 20 4 30 46 George Bush 29 1 17 44 Benjamin Harrison 19 1 25 44 Woodrow Wilson 33 6 11 43 Richard Nixon 26 7 17 42 William McKinley 6 0 36 39 William Taft 30 1 9 37 Herbert Hoover 21 3 16 31 Jimmy Carter 11 2 20 30 Bill Clinton 30 2 0 30 Lyndon Johnson 16 0 14 29 Andrew Johnson 21 15 8 21 John Kennedy 12 0 9 13 Rutherford Hayes 12 1 1 12 Andrew Jackson 5 0 7 12 Chester Arthur 4 1 8 10 John Tyler 6 1 4 9 Franklin Pierce 9 5 0 7 James Madison 5 0 2 7 James Buchanan 4 0 3 7 Abraham Lincoln 2 0 5 6 Warren Harding 5 0 1 3 James Polk 2 0 1 2 George Washington 2 0 0 1 James Monroe 1 0 0 1 Martin Van Buren 0 0 1 0 John Adams 0 0 0 0 John Q Adams 0 0 0 0 Millard Fillmore 0 0 0 0 James Garfield 0 0 0 0 William Harrison 0 0 0 0 Thomas Jefferson 0 0 0 0 Zachary Taylor 0 0 0There are constitutional questions about when Presidents can use the pocket veto (which cannot be overridden).
By Number of Pardons in years Franklin Roosevelt 3687 12.1 Woodrow Wilson 2480 8 Harry Truman 2044 7.8 Calvin Coolidge 1545 5.6 Herbert Hoover 1385 4 Ulysses Grant 1332 8 Lyndon Johnson 1187 5.2 Dwight Eisenhower 1157 8 Grover Cleveland * 1107 8 Theodore Roosevelt * 981 7.5 Richard Nixon 926 5.6 William McKinley * 918 4.5 Rutherford Hayes 893 4 Warren Harding 800 2.4 William Taft 758 4 Andrew Johnson 654 3.9 Benjamin Harrison 613 4 John Kennedy 575 2.8 Jimmy Carter 566 4 Bill Clinton 456 8 James Monroe 419 8 Gerald Ford 409 2.5 Ronald Reagan 406 8 Andrew Jackson 386 8 Abraham Lincoln 343 4.1 Chester Arthur 337 3.5 James Polk 268 4 John Tyler 209 3.9 James Madison 196 8 John Q Adams 183 4 Millard Fillmore 170 2.6 Martin Van Buren 168 4 James Buchanan 150 4 Franklin Pierce 142 4 Thomas Jefferson 119 8 George Bush 77 4 Zachary Taylor 38 1.3 John Adams 21 4 George Washington 16 8 James Garfield 0 0.5 William Harrison 0 0.1A large number of pardons by Johnson & Grant include Confederate soldiers
Supreme Court Appointments Term John Jay (NY) 1789 1795 Washington John Rutledge (SC) 1795 1795 Washington Oliver Ellsworth (CT) 1796 1800 Washington John Rutledge (SC) 1790 1791 Washington William Cushing (MA) 1790 1810 Washington James Wilson (PA) 1789 1798 Washington John Blair (VA) 1790 1795 Washington James Iredell (NC) 1790 1799 Washington Thomas Johnson (MD) 1792 1793 Washington William Patterson (NJ) 1793 1806 Washington Samuel Chase (MD) [1] 1796 1811 Washington John Marshall (VA) 1801 1835 Adams Bushrod Washington (VA) 1799 1829 Adams Alfred Moore (NC) 1800 1804 Adams William Johnson (SC) 1804 1834 Jefferson Henry Brockholst Livingston (NY) 1807 1823 Jefferson Thomas Todd (KY) 1807 1826 Jefferson Gabriel Duval (MD) 1811 1835 Madison Joseph Story (MA) 1812 1845 Madison Smith Thompson (NY) 1823 1843 Monroe Robert Trimble (KY) 1826 1828 JQ Adams Roger Brooke Taney (MD) 1836 1864 Jackson John McLean (OH) 1830 1861 Jackson Henry Baldwin (PA) 1830 1844 Jackson James Moore Wayne (GA) 1835 1867 Jackson Philip Pendleton Barbour (VA) 1836 1841 Jackson John Catron (TN) [2] 1837 1865 Jackson John McKinley (AL) 1838 1852 Van Buren Peter Vivian Daniel (VA) 1842 1860 Van Buren Samuel Nelson (NY) 1845 1872 Tyler Levi Woodbury (NH) 1845 1851 Polk Robert Cooper Grier (PA) 1846 1870 Polk Benjamin Robbins Curtis (MA) 1851 1857 Fillmore John Archibald Campbell (AL) 1853 1861 Pierce Nathan Clifford (ME) 1858 1881 Buchanan Salmon Portland Chase (OH) 1864 1873 Lincoln Noah Haynes Swayne (OH) 1862 1881 Lincoln Samuel Freeman Miller (IA) 1862 1890 Lincoln David Davis (IL) 1862 1877 Lincoln Stephen Johnson Field (CA) 1863 1897 Lincoln Morrison Remick Waite (OH) 1874 1888 Grant Edwin McMasters Stanton (OH) [3] 1869 --- Grant William Strong (PA) 1870 1880 Grant Joseph Paul Bradley (NJ) 1870 1892 Grant Ward Hunt (NY) 1873 1882 Grant John Marshall Harlan (KY) 1877 1911 Hayes William Burnham Woods (GA) 1881 1887 Hayes Stanley Matthews (OH) 1881 1889 Garfield Horace Gray (MA) 1882 1902 Arthur Samuel Blatchford (NY) 1882 1893 Arthur Melville Weston Fuller (IL) 1888 1910 Cleveland Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (MS) 1888 1893 Cleveland David Josiah Brewer (KS) 1890 1910 Harrison Henry Billings Brown (MI) 1891 1906 Harrison George Shiras (PA) 1892 1903 Harrison Howell Edmunds Jackson (TN) 1893 1895 Harrison Edward Douglass White (LA) 1894 1921 Cleveland Rufus Wheeler Peckham (NY) 1896 1909 Cleveland Joseph McKenna (CA) 1898 1925 McKinley Oliver Wendell Holmes (MA) 1902 1932 Roosevelt William Rufus Day (OH) 1903 1922 Roosevelt William Henry Moody (MA) 1906 1910 Roosevelt Edward Douglass White (LA) 1910 1921 Taft Horace Harmon Lurton (TN) 1910 1914 Taft Charles Evans Hughes (NY) [4] 1910 1916 Taft Willis Van Devanter (WY) 1911 1937 Taft Joseph Rucker Lamar (GA) 1911 1916 Taft Mahlon Pitney (NJ) 1912 1922 Taft James Clark McReynolds (TN) 1914 1941 Wilson Louis Dembitz Brandeis (MA) 1916 1939 Wilson John Hessin Clarke (OH) 1916 1922 Wilson William Howard Taft (CT) 1921 1930 Harding George Sutherland (UT) 1922 1938 Harding Pierce Butler (MN) 1923 1939 Harding Edward Terry Sanford (TN) 1923 1930 Harding Harlan Fiske Stone (NY) 1925 1946 Coolidge Charles Evans Hughes (NY) 1930 1941 Hoover Owen Josephus Roberts (PA) 1930 1945 Hoover Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (NY) 1932 1938 Hoover Harlan Fiske Stone (NY) 1941 1946 Roosevelt Hugo Lafayette Black (AL) 1937 1971 Roosevelt Stanley Former Reed (KY) 1938 1957 Roosevelt Felix Frankfurter (MA) 1939 1962 Roosevelt William Orville Douglas (CT) 1939 1975 Roosevelt Frank Murphey (MI) 1940 1949 Roosevelt James Francis Byrnes (SC) 1941 1942 Roosevelt Robert Houghwout Jackson (NY) 1941 1954 Roosevelt Wiley Blount Rutledge (IA) 1943 1949 Roosevelt Frederick Moore Vinson (KY) 1946 1953 Truman Harold Hitz Burton (OH) 1945 1958 Truman Thomas Campbell Clark (TX) 1949 1967 Truman Sherman Minton (IN) 1949 1956 Truman Earl Warren (CA) 1953 1969 Eisenhower John Marshall Harlan (NY) 1955 1971 Eisenhower William Joseph Brennan (NJ) 1956 1990 Eisenhower Charles Evans Whittaker (MO) 1957 1962 Eisenhower Potter Stewart (OH) 1958 1981 Eisenhower Byron Raymond White (CO) 1962 1993 Kennedy Arthur Joseph Goldberg (IL) 1962 1965 Kennedy Abe Fortas (TN) 1965 1969 Johnson Thurgood Marshall (NY) 1967 1991 Johnson Warren Earl Burger (VA) 1969 1986 Nixon Harry Andrew Blackmun (MN) 1970 1994 Nixon Lewis Franklin Powell (VA) 1972 1987 Nixon William Hubbs Rehnquist (AZ) 1972 --- Nixon John Paul Stevens (IL) 1975 --- Ford William Hubbs Rehnquist (AZ) 1986 --- Reagan Sandra Day O'Connor (AZ) 1981 --- Reagan Antonin Scalia (VA) 1986 --- Reagan Anthony M Kennedy (CA) 1988 --- Reagan David H Souter (NH) 1990 --- Bush Clarence Thomas (GA) 1991 --- Bush Ruth Bader Ginsburg (NY) 1993 --- Clinton Stephen G Breyer (MA) 1994 --- ClintonChief Justices in bold
Admission of States To The Union 12/07/1787 Delaware 12/12/1787 Pennsylvania 12/19/1787 New Jersey 01/02/1788 Georgia 01/09/1788 Connecticut 02/06/1788 Massachusetts 04/28/1788 Maryland 05/23/1788 South Carolina 06/21/1788 New Hampshire* 06/25/1788 Virginia 07/26/1788 New York 11/21/1789 North Carolina 05/29/1790 Rhode Island 03/04/1791 Vermont George Washington 06/01/1792 Kentucky George Washington 06/01/1796 Tennessee George Washington 03/01/1803 Ohio Thomas Jefferson 04/30/1812 Louisiana James Madison 12/11/1816 Indiana James Madison 12/10/1817 Mississippi James Monroe 12/03/1818 Illinois James Monroe 12/14/1819 Alabama James Monroe 03/15/1820 Maine James Monroe 08/10/1821 Missouri James Monroe 06/15/1836 Arkansas Andrew Jackson 01/26/1837 Michigan Andrew Jackson 03/03/1845 Florida John Tyler 12/29/1845 Texas James Polk 12/28/1846 Iowa James Polk 05/29/1848 Wisconsin James Polk 09/09/1850 California Millard Fillmore 05/11/1858 Minnesota James Buchanan 02/14/1859 Oregon James Buchanan 01/29/1861 Kansas James Buchanan 06/20/1863 West Virginia Abraham Lincoln 10/31/1864 Nevada Abraham Lincoln 03/01/1867 Nebraska Andrew Johnson 08/01/1876 Colorado Ulysses Grant 11/02/1889 North Dakota Benjamin Harrison 11/02/1889 South Dakota Benjamin Harrison 11/08/1889 Montana Benjamin Harrison 11/11/1889 Washington Benjamin Harrison 07/03/1890 Idaho Benjamin Harrison 07/10/1890 Wyoming Benjamin Harrison 01/04/1896 Utah Grover Cleveland 11/16/1907 Oklahoma Theodore Roosevelt 01/06/1912 New Mexico William Taft 02/14/1912 Arizona William Taft 01/03/1959 Alaska Dwight Eisenhower 08/21/1959 Hawaii Dwight Eisenhower* 9th state to ratify Constitution
Party Statistics Dem Rep Other Total Presidents 14 18 10 42 Years in Office 84 80 48 212 Average Term 5.6 4.7 4.8 5.04 Avg Beginning Age 53.3 54.4 58 56.3 Avg Ending Age 58.8 58.8 62.7 57.7 Inaug Address (in words)39,730 57,015 30,420 127,165 Vetoes 1041 421 14 1476 Overridden Vetoes 58 47 1 106 Pocket Vetoes 645 418 6 1069 Pardons 13,870 12,880 1,371 28,121 Supreme Court Appts 38 53 23 114Previous Experience Vice President 4 6 4 14 Cabinet 2 3 4 9 Governor 11 6 3 20 Senate 9 3.5 3 15.5 House 8 6 5 19 State Senate 4 2 2 8 State Assembly 5 2 6 13 Lt Governor 1 2 0 3 Attorney General 2 0 0 2 Mayor 2 1 0 3 Lawyer 10 8 6 24 Diplomat 2 1 5 8 Teacher 4 3 2 9 Military 8 11 6 25Personal Eldest Child 5 5 2 12 Youngest Child 3 3 1 7 Eldest Son 7 7 7 21 Age At Death 58.3 51 75.6 69.1
