1789
Starting off: George Washington
1792
Washington again
1796
Federalist succession: John Adams
1800
Republican takeover: Jefferson's revolution
1804
Jefferson's landslide
1808
Madison and the Dambargo
1812
Madison's wartime re-election
1816
Monroe: Another Virginia victory
1820
Monroe's quiet re-election
1824
John Quincy Adams and the "corrupt bargain"
1828
Jackson vs. Adams
1832
Jackson, Clay, and the Bank War
1836
Van Buren's victory over three Whigs
1840
Tippecanoe and Tyler too
1844
Polk and Manifest Destiny
1848
Old Zach and the Michigander
1852
Frank Pierce and Old Fuss and Feathers
1856
Buchanan and Bleeding Kansas
1860
Lincoln and the sectional crisis
1864
Lincoln and the war crisis
1868
Grant and reconstruction
1872
Grand the liberal Republicans
1876
The Hayes-Tilden disputed election
1880
The triumph of "Boatman Jim" Garfield
1884
The Cleveland-Blaine contest
1888
Harrison, Cleveland, and the tariff
1892
Cleveland's return to power
1896
McKinley, Bryan, and free silver
1900
The McKinley-Roosevelt triumph
1904
T.R.'s smashing victory
1908
Taft's big victory over Bryan
1912
The high tide of progressivism: Wilson, Roosevelt, and Taft
1916
Wilson and the Great War
1920
harding, Nostrums, and normalcy
1924
keeping cool with Coolidge
1928
Hoover, Smith, and the Catholic issue
1932
Roosevelt, Hoover, and the Great Depression
1936
Roosevelt and the New Deal
1940
Roosevelt, Wilkie, and the war in Europe
1944
Roosevelt's wartime mandate
1948
The great Truman surprise
1952
The Eisenhower landslide
1956
Another Eisenhower landslide
1960
Kennedy and the New Frontier
1964
Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
1968
Nixon, Humphrey, and the Vietnam War
1972
Another Nixon triumph
1976
The triumph of an outsider: Jimmy Carter
1980
The Reagan victory.