Photographs of American Presidents

Raul Gutierrez
11 min readDec 10, 2022

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Ever wonder what James Polk looked like (Apparently looks like an aged Malfoy) or Zach Taylor (mean SOB)? Well, I did.

John Quincy Adams, President, 1825-1829

March 1843

Andrew Jackson, President 1823-1837

1844

Martin Van Buren, President 1837–1841

William Henry Harrison, President 1841–1841

John Tyler, President 1841–1845

James Polk, President 1845–1849

March 1841
James and Sarah Polk, 1848

Zachary Taylor, President, 1849–1850

taken between 1846 and and 1849

Millard Fillmore, President1850–1853

Franklin Pierce, President1853–1857

James Buchanan, President1857–1861

Buchanan and his cabinet. (l-r) Jacob Thompson, Lewis Cass, John B. Floyd, Buchanan, Howell Cobb, Isaac Toucey, Aaron V. Brown, and Jeremiah S. Black.
Buchanan’s Inaguration
After 1861

Abraham Lincoln, President1861–1865

Lincoln, 1846 (as congressman elect)
Lincoln, 1858
Lincoln, 1858
Lincoln, Feb 9, 1861
Lincoln, 1861
Lincoln, 1863
Lincoln, Feb 5, 1865

Andrew Johnson, President, 1865–1869

Ulysses S. Grant, President 1869–1877

Grant in China, 1979 (with Governor-General Li Hongzhang)

Rutherford B. Hayes , President1877–1881

1852, Rutheford and Lucy Webb (wedding portrait)
1861
1870s

James A. Garfield, President 1877–1881

James Garfield at 16
1860s
1870s
Garfield, 1880

Chester A. Arthur, President 1881–1885

Chester Arthur 1880s

Grover Cleveland, President1885–1889 and 1893–1897

1850s
Cleveland as Governor of NY
Cleveland’s first Cabinet. 1885

Benjamin Harrison, President 1889–1893

Young Benjamin Harrison

William McKinley, President 1897–1901

McKinley as a young congressman.

Theodore Roosevelt, President 1901–1909

William Howard Taft, President 1909–1913

Woodrow Wilson, President 1913–1921

Warren G. Harding 1921–1923

Calvin Coolidge 1923–1929

Herbert Hoover 1929–1933

Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933–1945

Roosevelt and his daughter Anna

Harry S. Truman 1945–1953

Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953–1961

1915
1959

John F. Kennedy 1961–1963

Lyndon B. Johnson 1963–1969

1915
1931
1963

Richard M. Nixon 1969–1974

Gerald Ford 1974–1977

Jimmy Carter 1977–1980

Ronald Reagan 1981–1988

1920

George H. W. Bush 1989–1992

Bill Clinton 1993–2000

George W. Bush 2001–2008

Barack Obama 2009–2016

Donald Trump 2017–2020

Joe Biden 2021-

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