document_title: Enola Gay

question_text: where did the b 29 take off from

question_tokens: where did the b 29 take off from

text: Enola Gay

text: World War II[edit]

text: Early history[edit]

text: The Enola Gay (Model number B-29-45-MO,[N 1] Serial number 44-86292, Victor number 82) was built by the Glenn L. Martin Company (later part of Lockheed Martin) at its Bellevue, Nebraska plant, located at what is now known as Offutt Air Force Base. The bomber was one of the 15 initial examples of B-29s built to the "Silverplate" specification — 65 of these eventually being completed during and after World War II — giving them the primary ability to function as nuclear "weapon delivery" aircraft. These modifications included an extensively modified bomb bay with pneumatic doors and British bomb attachment and release systems, reversible pitch propellers that gave more braking power on landing, improved engines with fuel injection and better cooling,[2][3] and the removal of protective armor and gun turrets.[4]

text: Enola Gay was personally selected by Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., the commander of the 509th Composite Group, on 9 May 1945, while still on the assembly line. The aircraft was accepted by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) on 18 May 1945 and assigned to the 393d Bombardment Squadron, Heavy, 509th Composite Group. Crew B-9, commanded by Captain Robert A. Lewis, took delivery of the bomber and flew it from Omaha to the 509th's base at Wendover Army Air Field, Utah, on 14 June 1945.[5]

text: Thirteen days later, the aircraft left Wendover for Guam, where it received a bomb-bay modification, and flew to North Field, Tinian, on 6 July. It was initially given the Victor (squadron-assigned identification) number 12, but on 1 August, was given the circle R tail markings of the 6th Bombardment Group as a security measure and had its Victor number changed to 82 to avoid misidentification with actual 6th Bombardment Group aircraft.[5] During July, the bomber made eight practice or training flights, and flew two missions, on 24 and 26 July, to drop pumpkin bombs on industrial targets at Kobe and Nagoya. Enola Gay was used on 31 July on a rehearsal flight for the actual mission.[6]

text: The partially assembled Little Boy gun-type fission weapon L-11, weighing 10,000 pounds (4,500 kg), was contained inside a 41-inch (100 cm) x 47-inch (120 cm) x 138-inch (350 cm) wooden crate that was secured to the deck of the USS Indianapolis. Unlike the six uranium-235 target discs, which were later flown to Tinian on three separate aircraft arriving 28 and 29 July, the assembled projectile with the nine uranium-235 rings installed was shipped in a single lead-lined steel container weighing 300 pounds (140 kg) that was locked to brackets welded to the deck of Captain Charles B. McVay III's quarters.[N 2] Both the L-11 and projectile were dropped off at Tinian on 26 July 1945.[8]

text: Hiroshima mission[edit]

text: On 5 August 1945, during preparation for the first atomic mission, Tibbets assumed command of the aircraft and named it after his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets, who, in turn, had been named for the heroine of a novel.[N 3] When it came to selecting a name for the plane, Tibbets later recalled that:

text: ... my thoughts turned at this point to my courageous red-haired mother, whose quiet confidence had been a source of strength to me since boyhood, and particularly during the soul-searching period when I decided to give up a medical career to become a military pilot. At a time when Dad had thought I had lost my marbles, she had taken my side and said, "I know you will be all right, son."[10]

text: The name was painted on the aircraft on 5 August by Allan L. Karl, an enlisted man in the 509th.[5] Regularly-assigned aircraft commander Robert Lewis was unhappy to be displaced by Tibbets for this important mission, and became furious when he arrived at the aircraft on the morning of 6 August to see it painted with the now-famous nose art.[11]

text: Hiroshima was the primary target of the first nuclear bombing mission on 6 August, with Kokura and Nagasaki as alternative targets. Enola Gay, piloted by Tibbets, took off from North Field, in the Mariana Islands, about six hours' flight time from Japan, accompanied by two other B-29s, The Great Artiste, carrying instrumentation, and a then-nameless aircraft later called Necessary Evil, commanded by Captain George Marquardt, to take photographs. The director of the Manhattan Project, Major General Leslie R. Groves, Jr., wanted the event recorded for posterity, so the takeoff was illuminated by floodlights. When he wanted to taxi, Tibbets leaned out the window to direct the bystanders out of the way. On request, he gave a friendly wave for the cameras.[12]

text: After leaving Tinian, the aircraft made their way separately to Iwo Jima, where they rendezvoused at 2,440 meters (8,010 ft) and set course for Japan. The aircraft arrived over the target in clear visibility at 9,855 meters (32,333 ft). Captain William S. "Deak" Parsons of Project Alberta, who was in command of the mission, armed the bomb during the flight to minimize the risks during takeoff. His assistant, Second Lieutenant Morris R. Jeppson, removed the safety devices 30 minutes before reaching the target area.[13]

text: The release at 08:15 (Hiroshima time) went as planned, and the Little Boy took 43 seconds to fall from the aircraft flying at 31,060 feet (9,470 m) to the predetermined detonation height about 1,968 feet (600 m) above the city. Enola Gay traveled 11.5 mi (18.5 km) before it felt the shock waves from the blast.[14] Although buffeted by the shock, neither Enola Gay nor The Great Artiste was damaged.[15]

text: The detonation created a blast equivalent to 16 kilotons of TNT (67 TJ).[16] The U-235 weapon was considered very inefficient, with only 1.7% of its fissile material reacting.[17] The radius of total destruction was about one mile (1.6 km), with resulting fires across 4.4 square miles (11 km2).[18] Americans estimated that 4.7 square miles (12 km2) of the city were destroyed. Japanese officials determined that 69% of Hiroshima's buildings were destroyed and another 6–7% damaged.[19] Some 70,000–80,000 people, 30% of the city's population, were killed by the blast and resultant firestorm,[20] and another 70,000 injured.[21] Out of those killed, 20,000 were soldiers.[22]

text: Enola Gay returned safely to its base on Tinian to great fanfare, touching down at 2:58 pm, after 12 hours 13 minutes. The Great Artiste and Necessary Evil followed at short intervals. Several hundred people, including journalists and photographers, had gathered to watch the planes return. Tibbets was the first to disembark, and was presented with the Distinguished Service Cross on the spot.[15]

text: Nagasaki mission[edit]

text: The Hiroshima mission was followed by another atomic strike. Originally scheduled for 11 August, it was brought forward by two days to 9 August owing to a forecast of bad weather. This time, a Fat Man nuclear weapon was carried by B-29 Bockscar, piloted by Major Charles W. Sweeney.[23] Enola Gay, flown by Captain George Marquardt's Crew B-10, was the weather reconnaissance aircraft for Kokura, the primary target.[24] Enola Gay reported clear skies over Kokura,[25] but by the time Bockscar arrived, the city was obscured by smoke from fires from the conventional bombing of Yahata by 224 B-29s the day before. After three unsuccessful passes, Bockscar diverted to its secondary target, Nagasaki,[26] where it dropped its bomb. In contrast to the Hiroshima mission, the Nagasaki mission has been described as tactically botched, although the mission did meet its objectives. The crew encountered a number of problems in execution, and had very little fuel by the time they landed at the emergency backup landing site Yontan Airfield on Okinawa.[27][28]

text: Crews[edit]

text: Hiroshima mission[edit]

text: Enola Gay's crew on 6 August 1945, consisted of 12 men.[29][30] The crew was:

text:
Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. – pilot and aircraft commander
Captain Robert A. Lewis – co-pilot; Enola Gay's regularly assigned aircraft commander*
Major Thomas Ferebee – bombardier
Captain Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk  – navigator
Captain William S. Parsons, USN – weaponeer and mission commander.
First Lieutenant Jacob Beser – radar countermeasures (also the only man to fly on both of the nuclear bombing aircraft)
Second Lieutenant Morris R. Jeppson – assistant weaponeer
Staff Sergeant George R. "Bob" Caron  – tail gunner*
Staff Sergeant Wyatt E. Duzenbury – flight engineer*
Sergeant Joe S. Stiborik – radar operator*
Sergeant Robert H. Shumard – assistant flight engineer*
Private First Class Richard H. Nelson – VHF radio operator*

text: Source: Campbell, 2005, p. 30. Asterisks denote regular crewmen of the Enola Gay.

text: Of mission commander Parsons, it was said: "There is no one more responsible for getting this bomb out of the laboratory and into some form useful for combat operations than Captain Parsons, by his plain genius in the ordnance business."[31]

text: Nagasaki mission[edit]

text: For the Nagasaki mission, Enola Gay was flown by Crew B-10, normally assigned to Up An' Atom:

text:
Captain George W. Marquardt – aircraft commander
Second Lieutenant James M. Anderson – co-pilot
Second Lieutenant Russell Gackenbach – navigator
Captain James W. Strudwick – bombardier
First Lieutenant Jacob Beser – radar countermeasures
Technical Sergeant James R. Corliss – flight engineer
Sergeant Warren L. Coble – radio operator
Sergeant Joseph M. DiJulio – radar operator
Sergeant Melvin H. Bierman – tail gunner
Sergeant Anthony D. Capua, Jr. – assistant engineer/scanner

text: Source: Campbell, 2005, p. 134, 191–192.

text: Subsequent history[edit]

text: On 6 November 1945, Lewis flew the Enola Gay back to the United States, arriving at the 509th's new base at Roswell Army Air Field, New Mexico, on 8 November. On 29 April 1946, Enola Gay left Roswell as part of the Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific. It flew to Kwajalein Atoll on 1 May. It was not chosen to make the test drop at Bikini Atoll and left Kwajalein on 1 July, the date of the test, reaching Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Field, California, the next day.[32]

text: The decision was made to preserve the Enola Gay, and on 24 July 1946, the aircraft was flown to Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona, in preparation for storage. On 30 August 1946, the title to the aircraft was transferred to the Smithsonian Institution and the Enola Gay was removed from the USAAF inventory.[32] From 1946 to 1961, the Enola Gay was put into temporary storage at a number of locations. It was at Davis-Monthan from 1 September 1946 until 3 July 1949, when it was flown to Orchard Place Air Field, Park Ridge, Illinois, by Tibbets for acceptance by the Smithsonian. It was moved to Pyote Air Force Base, Texas, on 12 January 1952, and then to Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, on 2 December 1953,[33] because the Smithsonian had no storage space for the aircraft.[34]

text: It was hoped that the Air Force would guard the plane, but, lacking hangar space, it was left outdoors on a remote part of the air base, exposed to the elements. Souvenir hunters broke in and removed parts. Insects and birds then gained access to the aircraft. Paul E. Garber of the Smithsonian Institution, became concerned about the Enola Gay's condition,[34] and on 10 August 1960, Smithsonian staff began dismantling the aircraft. The components were transported to the Smithsonian storage facility at Suitland, Maryland, on 21 July 1961.[33]

text: Enola Gay remained at Suitland for many years. By the early 1980s, two veterans of the 509th, Don Rehl and his former navigator in the 509th, Frank B. Stewart, began lobbying for the aircraft to be restored and put on display. They enlisted Tibbets and Senator Barry Goldwater in their campaign. In 1983, Walter J. Boyne, a former B-52 pilot with the Strategic Air Command, became director of the National Air and Space Museum, and he made the Enola Gay's restoration a priority.[34] Looking at the aircraft, Tibbets recalled, was a "sad meeting. [My] fond memories, and I don't mean the dropping of the bomb, were the numerous occasions I flew the airplane ... I pushed it very, very hard and it never failed me ... It was probably the most beautiful piece of machinery that any pilot ever flew."[34]

text: Restoration of the bomber began on 5 December 1984, at the Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility in Suitland-Silver Hill, Maryland. The propellers that were used on the bombing mission were later shipped to Texas A&M University. One of these propellers was trimmed to 12.5 feet (3.8 m) for use in the university's Oran W. Nicks Low Speed Wind Tunnel. The lightweight aluminum variable-pitch propeller is powered by a 1,250 kVA electric motor, providing a wind speed up to 200 miles per hour (320 km/h).[35] Two engines were rebuilt at Garber and two at San Diego Air & Space Museum. Some parts and instruments had been removed and could not be located. Replacements were found or fabricated, and marked so that future curators could distinguish them from the original components.[36]

text: Restoration[edit]

text: Exhibition controversy[edit]

text: Enola Gay became the center of a controversy at the Smithsonian Institution when the museum planned to put its fuselage on public display in 1995 as part of an exhibit commemorating the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.[37] The exhibit, The Crossroads: The End of World War II, the Atomic Bomb and the Cold War, was drafted by the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum staff, and arranged around the restored Enola Gay.[38]

text: Critics of the planned exhibit, especially those of the American Legion and the Air Force Association, charged that the exhibit focused too much attention on the Japanese casualties inflicted by the nuclear bomb, rather than on the motivations for the bombing or the discussion of the bomb's role in ending the conflict with Japan.[39][40] The exhibit brought to national attention many long-standing academic and political issues related to retrospective views of the bombings. As a result, after various failed attempts to revise the exhibit in order to meet the satisfaction of competing interest groups, the exhibit was canceled on 30 January 1995. Martin O. Harwit, Director of the National Air and Space Museum, was compelled to resign over the controversy.[41][42]

text: The forward fuselage did go on display on 28 June 1995. On 2 July 1995, three people were arrested for throwing ash and human blood on the aircraft's fuselage, following an earlier incident in which a protester had thrown red paint over the gallery's carpeting.[43] The exhibition closed on 18 May 1998, and the fuselage was returned to the Garber Facility for final restoration.[44]

text: Complete restoration and display[edit]

text: Restoration work began in 1984, and would eventually require 300,000 staff hours. While the fuselage was on display, from 1995 to 1998, work continued on the remaining unrestored components. The aircraft was shipped in pieces to the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia from March–June 2003, with the fuselage and wings reunited for the first time since 1960 on 10 April 2003[3] and assembly completed on 8 August 2003. The aircraft has been on display at the Udvar-Hazy Center since the museum annex opened on 15 December 2003.[44]


document_title: List of Presidents of the United States

question_text: who were the last 7 presidents of the united states

root

text: List of Presidents of the United States

text: Presidents

text:
Unaffiliated (2)       Federalist (1)       Democratic-Republican (4)       Democratic (15)       Whig (4)       Republican (19)       National Union (2)

Presidency[a]

President

Prior office[b]

Party[c]

Term[d]

Vice President

1

April 30, 1789[e]–March 4, 1797

George Washington1732–1799(Lived: 67 years)[3][4][5]

Commander-in-Chiefof theContinental Army(1775–1783)

Unaffiliated[2]

(1788–89)1(1789)

John Adams[f][g]

(1792)2(1793)

2

March 4, 1797–March 4, 1801

John Adams1735–1826(Lived: 90 years)[6][7][8]

1stVice President of the United States

Federalist

(1796)3(1797)

Thomas Jefferson[h]

3

March 4, 1801–March 4, 1809

Thomas Jefferson1743–1826(Lived: 83 years)[9][10][11]

2ndVice President of the United States

Democratic-Republican

(1800)4(1801)

Aaron BurrMarch 4, 1801 – March 4, 1805

(1804)5(1805)

George ClintonMarch 4, 1805 – March 4, 1809

4

March 4, 1809–March 4, 1817

James Madison1751–1836(Lived: 85 years)[12][13][14]

5thUnited States Secretary of State(1801–1809)

Democratic-Republican

(1808)6(1809)

George ClintonMarch 4, 1809 – April 20, 1812(Died in office)

Office vacant(Balance of Clinton's term)

(1812)7(1813)

Elbridge GerryMarch 4, 1813 – November 23, 1814(Died in office)

Office vacant(Balance of Gerry's term)

5

March 4, 1817–March 4, 1825

James Monroe1758–1831(Lived: 73 years)[15][16][17]

7thUnited States Secretary of State(1811–1817)

Democratic-Republican

(1816)8(1817)

Daniel D. Tompkins

(1820)9(1821)

6

March 4, 1825–March 4, 1829

John Quincy Adams1767–1848(Lived: 80 years)[18][19][20]

8thUnited States Secretary of State(1817–1825)

Democratic-Republican

(1824)10(1825)

John C. Calhoun

7

March 4, 1829–March 4, 1837

Andrew Jackson1767–1845(Lived: 78 years)[21][22][23]

U.S. Senator (Class 2) from Tennessee(1797–1798 & 1823–1825)

Democratic

(1828)11(1829)

John C. Calhoun[i]March 4, 1829 – December 28, 1832(Resigned from office)

Office vacant(Balance of Calhoun's term)

(1832)12(1833)

Martin Van BurenMarch 4, 1833 – March 4, 1837

8

March 4, 1837–March 4, 1841

Martin Van Buren1782–1862(Lived: 79 years)[24][25][26]

8thVice President of the United States

Democratic

(1836)13(1837)

Richard M. Johnson

9

March 4, 1841–April 4, 1841(Died in office)

William Henry Harrison1773–1841(Lived: 68 years)[27][28][29]

United States Minister to Colombia(1828–1829)

Whig

(1840)14(1841)(1841)[j]

John Tyler(Succeeded to presidency)

10

April 4, 1841[k]–March 4, 1845

John Tyler1790–1862(Lived: 71 years)[30][31][32]

10thVice President of the United States

WhigApril 4, 1841 – September 13, 1841

Office vacant

UnaffiliatedSeptember 13, 1841 – March 4, 1845[l]

11

March 4, 1845–March 4, 1849

James K. Polk1795–1849(Lived: 53 years)[33][34][35]

9thGovernor of Tennessee(1839–1841)

Democratic

(1844)15(1845)

George M. Dallas

12

March 4, 1849–July 9, 1850(Died in office)

Zachary Taylor1784–1850(Lived: 65 years)[36][37][38]

Major General of the 1st Infantry RegimentUnited States Army (1846–1849)(No prior elected office)

Whig

(1848)16(1849)(1850)[j]

Millard Fillmore(Succeeded to presidency)

13

July 9, 1850[m]–March 4, 1853

Millard Fillmore1800–1874(Lived: 74 years)[39][40][41]

12thVice President of the United States

Whig

Office vacant

14

March 4, 1853–March 4, 1857

Franklin Pierce1804–1869(Lived: 64 years)[42][43][44]

Brigadier General of the 9th InfantryUnited States Army(1847–1848)

Democratic

(1852)17(1853)

William R. KingMarch 4 – April 18, 1853(Died in office)

Office vacant(Balance of King's term)

15

March 4, 1857–March 4, 1861

James Buchanan1791–1868(Lived: 77 years)[45][46][47]

United States Minister to theCourt of St James's(1853–1856)

Democratic

(1856)18(1857)

John C. Breckinridge

16

March 4, 1861–April 15, 1865(Died in office)

Abraham Lincoln1809–1865(Lived: 56 years)[48][49][50]

U.S. Representative for Illinois's 7th District(1847–1849)

Republican(National Union)[n]

(1860)19(1861)

Hannibal HamlinMarch 4, 1861 – March 4, 1865

(1864)20(1865)(1865)[j]

Andrew JohnsonMarch 4 – April 15, 1865(Succeeded to presidency)

17

April 15, 1865–March 4, 1869

Andrew Johnson1808–1875(Lived: 66 years)[51][52][53]

16thVice President of the United States

National UnionApril 15, 1865 – c. 1868

Office vacant

Democraticc. 1868 – March 4, 1869[o]

18

March 4, 1869–March 4, 1877

Ulysses S. Grant1822–1885(Lived: 63 years)[54][55][56]

Commanding General of the U.S. Army(1864–1869)(No prior elected office)

Republican

(1868)21(1869)

Schuyler ColfaxMarch 4, 1869 – March 4, 1873

(1872)22(1873)

Henry WilsonMarch 4, 1873 – November 22, 1875(Died in office)

Office vacant(Balance of Wilson's term)

19

March 4, 1877–March 4, 1881

Rutherford B. Hayes1822–1893(Lived: 70 years)[57][58][59]

29th & 32ndGovernor of Ohio(1868–1872 & 1876–1877)

Republican

(1876)23(1877)

William A. Wheeler

20

March 4, 1881–September 19, 1881(Died in office)

James A. Garfield1831–1881(Lived: 49 years)[60][61][62]

U.S. Representative for Ohio's 19th District(1863–1881)

Republican

(1880)24(1881)(1881)[j]

Chester A. Arthur(Succeeded to presidency)

21

September 19, 1881[p]–March 4, 1885

Chester A. Arthur1829–1886(Lived: 57 years)[63][64][65]

20thVice President of the United States

Republican

Office vacant

22

March 4, 1885–March 4, 1889

Grover Cleveland1837–1908(Lived: 71 years)[66][67]

28thGovernor of New York(1883–1885)

Democratic

(1884)25(1885)

Thomas A. HendricksMarch 4 – November 25, 1885(Died in office)

Office vacant(Balance of Hendricks's term)

23

March 4, 1889–March 4, 1893

Benjamin Harrison1833–1901(Lived: 67 years)[68][69][70]

U.S. Senator (Class 1) from Indiana(1881–1887)

Republican

(1888)26(1889)

Levi P. Morton

24

March 4, 1893–March 4, 1897

Grover Cleveland1837–1908(Lived: 71 years)[66][67]

22ndPresident of the United States(1885–1889)

Democratic

(1892)27(1893)

Adlai Stevenson

25

March 4, 1897–September 14, 1901(Died in office)

William McKinley1843–1901(Lived: 58 years)[71][72][73]

39thGovernor of Ohio(1892–1896)

Republican

(1896)28(1897)

Garret HobartMarch 4, 1897 – November 21, 1899(Died in office)

Office vacant(Balance of Hobart's term)

(1900)29(1901)(1901)[j]

Theodore RooseveltMarch 4 – September 14, 1901(Succeeded to presidency)

26

September 14, 1901–March 4, 1909

Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919(Lived: 60 years)[74][75][76]

25thVice President of the United States

Republican

Office vacantSeptember 14, 1901 – March 4, 1905

(1904)30(1905)

Charles W. FairbanksMarch 4, 1905 – March 4, 1909

27

March 4, 1909–March 4, 1913

William Howard Taft1857–1930(Lived: 72 years)[77][78][79]

42ndUnited States Secretary of War(1904–1908)

Republican

(1908)31(1909)

James S. ShermanMarch 4, 1909 – October 30, 1912(Died in office)

Office vacant(Balance of Sherman's term)

28

March 4, 1913–March 4, 1921

Woodrow Wilson1856–1924(Lived: 67 years)[80][81][82]

34thGovernor of New Jersey(1911–1913)

Democratic

(1912)32(1913)

Thomas R. Marshall

(1916)33(1917)

29

March 4, 1921–August 2, 1923(Died in office)

Warren G. Harding1865–1923(Lived: 57 years)[83][84][85]

U.S. Senator (Class 3) from Ohio(1915–1921)

Republican

(1920)34(1921)(1923)[j]

Calvin Coolidge(Succeeded to presidency)

30

August 2, 1923[q]–March 4, 1929

Calvin Coolidge1872–1933(Lived: 60 years)[86][87][88]

29thVice President of the United States

Republican

Office vacantAugust 2, 1923 – March 4, 1925

(1924)35(1925)

Charles G. DawesMarch 4, 1925 – March 4, 1929

31

March 4, 1929–March 4, 1933

Herbert Hoover1874–1964(Lived: 90 years)[89][90][91]

3rdUnited States Secretary of Commerce(1921–1928)(No prior elected office)

Republican

(1928)36(1929)

Charles Curtis

32

March 4, 1933–April 12, 1945(Died in office)

Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945(Lived: 63 years)[92][93][94]

44thGovernor of New York(1929–1932)

Democratic

(1932)37(1933)

John N. GarnerMarch 4, 1933 – January 20, 1941[r]

(1936)38(1937)

(1940)39(1941)

Henry A. WallaceJanuary 20, 1941 – January 20, 1945

(1944)40(1945)(1945)[j]

Harry S. TrumanJanuary 20 – April 12, 1945(Succeeded to presidency)

33

April 12, 1945–January 20, 1953

Harry S. Truman1884–1972(Lived: 88 years)[95][96][97]

34thVice President of the United States

Democratic

Office vacantApril 12, 1945 – January 20, 1949

(1948)41(1949)

Alben W. BarkleyJanuary 20, 1949 – January 20, 1953

34

January 20, 1953–January 20, 1961

Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969(Lived: 78 years)[98][99][100]

Supreme Allied Commander Europe(1949–1952)(No prior elected office)

Republican

(1952)42(1953)

Richard Nixon

(1956)43(1957)

35

January 20, 1961–November 22, 1963(Died in office)

John F. Kennedy1917–1963(Lived: 46 years)[101][102][103]

U.S. Senator (Class 1) from Massachusetts(1953–1960)

Democratic

(1960)44(1961)(1963)[j]

Lyndon B. Johnson(Succeeded to presidency)

36

November 22, 1963–January 20, 1969

Lyndon B. Johnson1908–1973(Lived: 64 years)[104][105]

37thVice President of the United States

Democratic

Office vacantNovember 22, 1963 – January 20, 1965

(1964)45(1965)

Hubert HumphreyJanuary 20, 1965 – January 20, 1969

37

January 20, 1969–August 9, 1974(Resigned from office)

Richard Nixon1913–1994(Lived: 81 years)[106][107][108]

36thVice President of the United States(1953–1961)

Republican

(1968)46(1969)

Spiro AgnewJanuary 20, 1969 – October 10, 1973(Resigned from office)

(1972)47(1973)(1974)[j]

Office vacantOctober 10 – December 6, 1973

Gerald FordDecember 6, 1973 – August 9, 1974(Succeeded to presidency)

38

August 9, 1974–January 20, 1977

Gerald Ford1913–2006(Lived: 93 years)[109][110][111]

40thVice President of the United States

Republican

Office vacantAugust 9 – December 19, 1974

Nelson RockefellerDecember 19, 1974 – January 20, 1977

39

January 20, 1977–January 20, 1981

Jimmy CarterBorn 1924(94 years old)[112][113][114]

76thGovernor of Georgia(1971–1975)

Democratic

(1976)48(1977)

Walter Mondale

40

January 20, 1981–January 20, 1989

Ronald Reagan1911–2004(Lived: 93 years)[115][116][117]

33rdGovernor of California(1967–1975)

Republican

(1980)49(1981)

George H. W. Bush

(1984)50(1985)

41

January 20, 1989–January 20, 1993

George H. W. BushBorn 1924(94 years old)[118][119][120]

43rdVice President of the United States

Republican

(1988)51(1989)

Dan Quayle

42

January 20, 1993–January 20, 2001

Bill ClintonBorn 1946(72 years old)[121][122][123]

40th & 42ndGovernor of Arkansas(1979–1981 & 1983–1992)

Democratic

(1992)52(1993)

Al Gore

(1996)53(1997)

43

January 20, 2001–January 20, 2009

George W. BushBorn 1946(72 years old)[124][125]

46thGovernor of Texas(1995–2000)

Republican

(2000)54(2001)

Dick Cheney

(2004)55(2005)

44

January 20, 2009–January 20, 2017

Barack ObamaBorn 1961(57 years old)[126][127]

U.S. Senator (Class 3) from Illinois(2005–2008)

Democratic

(2008)56(2009)

Joe Biden

(2012)57(2013)

45

January 20, 2017–Incumbent

Donald TrumpBorn 1946(72 years old)[128][129]

Chairman ofThe Trump Organization(1971–2017)(No prior elected office)

Republican

(2016)58(2017)

Mike Pence

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text: Subsequent public office

text: Three presidents held another U.S. federal office after serving as president.

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President

Presidency[a]

Subsequent service

John Quincy Adams

6

1825–1829

U.S. Representative from Massachusetts (1831–1848)

Andrew Johnson

17

1865–1869

U.S. Senator from Tennessee (1875)

William Howard Taft

27

1909–1913

10th Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930)

text: Several presidents campaigned unsuccessfully for other U.S. state or federal elective offices after serving as president.

text:
President

Presidency[a]

Office sought unsuccessfully

John Quincy Adams

6

1825–1829

Governor of Massachusetts (1833)

Martin Van Buren

8

1837–1841

President of the United States (1844)

President of the United States (1848)

Millard Fillmore

13

1850–1853

President of the United States (1856)

Andrew Johnson

17

1865–1869

U.S. Senator from Tennessee (1870)

U.S. Representative from Tennessee (1872)

Ulysses S. Grant

18

1869–1877

President of the United States (1880)

Theodore Roosevelt

26

1901–1909

President of the United States (1912)

Herbert Hoover

31

1929–1933

President of the United States (1940)

text: Additionally, one former president, John Tyler, served in the government of the Confederate States during the American Civil War. Tyler served in the Provisional Confederate Congress from 1861 to 1862. He was elected to the Confederate House of Representatives in November 1861, but died before he could take his seat.