Commanders in Chief of the United States Commanders in Chief of the United States Order Name Term 1st President George Washington 1789-97 2nd President John Adams 1797-1801 3rd President Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809 4th President James Madison 1809-1817 5th President James Monroe 1817-1825 6th President John Quincy Adams 1825-1829 7th President Andrew Jackson 1829-1837 8th President Martin Van Buren 1837-1841 9th President William H Harrision 1841 10th President John Tyler 1841-1845 11th President James Polk 1845-1849 12th President Zachary Taylor 1849-1850 13th President Millard Fillmore 1850-1853 14th President Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 15th President James Buchanan 1857-1861 16th President Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 17th President Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 18th President Ulysses S Grant 1869-1877 19th President Rutherford B Hayes 1877-1881 20th President James Garfield 1881 21st President Chester Arthur 1881-1885 22nd President Grover Cleveland 1885-1889 23rd President Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893 24th President Grover Cleveland 1893-1897 25th President William McKinley 1897-1901 26th President Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt 1901-1909 27th President William Taft 1909-1913 28th President Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921 29th President James Harding 1921-1923 30th President Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929 31th President Herbert Hoover 1929-1933 32nd President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945 33rd President Harry Truman 1945-1953 34th President Dwight Eisenhower 1953-1961 35th President John F Kennedy 1961-1963 36th President Lyndon Johnson 1963-1969 37th President Richard Nixon 1969-1974 38th President Gerald Ford 1974-1977 39th President Jimmy Carter 1977-1981 40th President Ronald Reagan 1981-1989 41th President George Bush 1989-1993 42nd President Bill Clinton 1993-2001 43rd President George W Bush 2001-2008 44th President Barack H. Obama 2008-? Comments