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Definition of: president
(prez′ə·dənt) noun
1. One who is chosen to preside over an organized body; specifically, the chief executive of a republic.
2. The chairman of the meetings and chief executive officer of a department of the government, a corporation, society, etc.
3. The chief officer of a college or university.
4. The chairman of a meeting conducted under parliamentary rules. [<F président <L praesidens, -entis, ppr. of praesidere. See PRESIDE.]
—pres·i·den·tial (prez′ə·den′shəl) adjective
| Number —Name | |||
| Birthplace —Inaugurated: | Year | Age | |
| 1 | George Washington | ||
| Westmoreland Co., Va. | 1789 | 57 | |
| 2 | John Adams | ||
| Quincy, Mass. | 1797 | 61 | |
| 3 | Thomas Jefferson | ||
| Shadwell, Va. | 1801 | 57 | |
| 4 | James Madison | ||
| Port Conway, Va. | 1809 | 57 | |
| 5 | James Monroe | ||
| Westmoreland Co., Va. | 1817 | 58 | |
| 6 | John Quincy Adams | ||
| Quincy, Mass. | 1825 | 57 | |
| 7 | Andrew Jackson | ||
| Union Co., N.C. | 1829 | 61 | |
| 8 | Martin Van Buren | ||
| Kinderhook, Ν.Υ. | 1837 | 54 | |
| 9 | William H. Harrison | ||
| Berkeley, Va. | 1841 | 68 | |
| 10 | John Tyler | ||
| Greenway, Va. | 1841 | 51 | |
| 11 | James K. Polk | ||
| Little Sugar Creek, N.C. | 1845 | 49 | |
| 12 | Zachary Taylor | ||
| Orange Co., Va | 1849 | 64 | |
| 13 | Millard Fillmore | ||
| Summerhill, N.Y. | 1850 | 50 | |
| 14 | Franklin Pierce | ||
| Hillsboro, N.H. | 1853 | 48 | |
| 15 | James Buchanan | ||
| Cove Gap, Pa. | 1857 | 65 | |
| 16 | Abraham Lincoln | ||
| Hardin Co., Ky. | 1861 | 52 | |
| 17 | Andrew Johnson | ||
| Raleigh, N.C. | 1865 | 56 | |
| 18 | Ulysses S. Grant | ||
| Point Pleasant, O. | 1869 | 46 | |
| 19 | Rutherford B. Hayes | ||
| Delaware, O. | 1877 | 54 | |
| 20 | James A. Garfield | ||
| Cuyahoga Co., O. | 1881 | 49 | |
| 21 | Chester A. Arthur | ||
| Fairfield, Vt. | 1881 | 50 | |
| 22 | Grover Cleveland | ||
| Caldwell, N.J. | 1885 | 47 | |
| 23 | Benjamin Harrison | ||
| North Bend, O. | 1889 | 55 | |
| 24 | Grover Cleveland | ||
| Caldwell, N.J. | 1893 | 55 | |
| 25 | William McKinley | ||
| Niles, O. | 1897 | 54 | |
| 26 | Theodore Roosevelt | ||
| New York, Ν.Υ. | 1901 | 42 | |
| 27 | William H. Taft | ||
| Cincinnati, O. | 1909 | 51 | |
| 28 | Woodrow Wilson | ||
| Staunton, Va. | 1913 | 56 | |
| 29 | Warren G. Harding | ||
| Corsica, O. | 1921 | 55 | |
| 30 | Calvin Coolidge | ||
| Plymouth, Vt. | 1923 | 51 | |
| 31 | Herbert C. Hoover | ||
| West Branch, La. | 1929 | 55 | |
| 32 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | ||
| Hyde Park, N.Y. | 1933 | 51 | |
| 33 | Harry S Truman | ||
| Lamar, Mo. | 1945 | 60 | |
| 34 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | ||
| Denison, Tex. | 1953 | 62 | |
| 35 | John F. Kennedy | ||
| Brookline, Mass. | 1961 | 43 | |
| 36 | Lyndon B. Johnson | ||
| Gillespie County, Tex. | 1963 | 55 | |
| 37 | Richard M. Nixon | ||
| Yorba Linda, Calif. | 1969 | 56 | |
| 38 | Gerald R. Ford | ||
| Omaha, Nebr. | 1974 | 61 | |
| 39 | Jimmy Carter | ||
| Plains, Ga. | 1977 | 55 | |
| 40 | Ronald W. Reagan | ||
| Tampico, III. | 1981 | 69 | |
| 41 | George H. Walker Bush | ||
| Milton, Massachusetts | 1989 | 64 | |
| 42 | William Jefferson Clinton | ||
| Hope, Arkansas | 1993 | 46 |
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