States in order of admission to The Union & Presiding Presidents
GEORGE WASHINGTON 1789-1797 (I) (Presidents Home States)
1 Delaware December 7, 1787 *
2 Pennsylvania December 12, 1787 * (James Buchannan, Eisenhower)
3 New Jersey December 18, 1787 * (Wilson)
4 Georgia January 2, 1788 * (Carter)
5 Connecticut January 9, 1788 *
6 Massachusetts February 6, 1788 * (John Adams, John Q Adams, Coolidge, Kennedy)
7 Maryland April 28, 1788 *
8 South Carolina May 23, 1788 *
9 New Hampshire June 21, 1788 * (Franklin Pierce)
10 Virginia June 25, 1788 * (Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Tyler)
11 New York July 26, 1788 * (Van Buren, Fillmore, Arthur, Cleveland, TR, FDR)
12 North Carolina November 21, 1789 *
13 Rhode Island May 29, 1790 *
14 Vermont March 4, 1791
15 Kentucky June 1, 1792
16 Tennessee June 1, 1796 (Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, Andrew Johnson)
JOHN ADAMS 1797-1801 (F)
THOMAS JEFFERSON 1801-1809 (D-R)
17 Ohio March 1, 1803 (W.Harrison, Grant, Hayes, McKinley, Garfield, Taft, Harding)
JAMES MADISON 1809-1817 (D-R)
18 Louisiana April 30, 1812 (Zachary Taylor)
19 Indiana December 11, 1816 (Benjamin Harrison)
20 Mississippi December 10, 1817
JAMES MONROE 1817-1825 (D-R)
21 Illinois December 3, 1818 (Lincoln, Obama)
22Alabama December 14, 1819
23 Maine March 15, 1820
24 Missouri August 10, 1821 (Truman)
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS 1825-1829 (D-R)
ANDREW JACKSON 1829-1837 (D)
25 Arkansas June 15, 1836 (Clinton)
26 Michigan January 26, 1837 (Ford)
MARTIN VAN BUREN 1837-1841 (D)
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON 1841 (W) Died in office
JOHN TYLER 1841-1845 (W I)
27 Florida March 3, 1845
28 Texas December 29, 1845 (L.Johnson, GH Bush, GW Bush)
JAMES K. POLK 1845-1849 (D)
29 Iowa December 28, 1846 (Hoover)
30 Wisconsin May 29, 1848
ZACHARY TAYLOR 1849-1850 W) Died in office
31 California September 9, 1850 (Reagan, Nixon)
MILLARD FILLMORE 1850-1853 (W)
FRANKLIN PIERCE 1853-1857 (D)
JAMES BUCHANAN 1857-1861 (D)
32 Minnesota May 11, 1858
33 Oregon February 14, 1859
34 Kansas January 29, 1861
ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1861-1865 (R) Assassinated
35 West Virginia June 20, 1863
36 Nevada October 31, 1864
ANDREW JOHNSON 1865-1869 (D I)
37 Nebraska March 1, 1867
38 Colorado August 1, 1876
ULYSSES S. GRANT 1869-1877 (R)
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES 1877-1881 (R)
JAMES A. GARFIELD 1881 (R) Assassinated
CHESTER A. ARTHUR 1881-1885 (R)
GROVER CLEVELAND 1885-1889 (D)
39 North Dakota November 2, 1889
40 South Dakota November 2, 1889
41 Montana November 8, 1889
42 Washington November 11, 1889
BENJAMIN HARRISON 1889-1893 (R)
43 Idaho July 3, 1890
44 Wyoming July 10, 1890
GROVER CLEVELAND 1893-1897 (D)
45 Utah January 4, 1896
WILLIAM MCKINLEY 1897-1901 (R) Assassinated
THEODORE ROOSEVELT 1901-1909 (R)
46 Oklahoma November 16, 1907
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT 1909-1913 (R)
47 New Mexico January 6, 1912
48 Arizona February 14, 1912
WOODROW WILSON 1913-1921 (D)
WARREN G. HARDING 1921-1923 (R)
CALVIN COOLIDGE 1923-1929 (R)
HERBERT HOOVER 1929-1933 (R)
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT 1933-1945 (D) Died in office.
HARRY S. TRUMAN 1945-1953 (D)
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER 1953-1961 (R)
49 Alaska January 3, 1959
50 Hawaii August 21, 1959 (Official State on 8-21-59 By Executive Order. Should be 7-4-60)
Presidents as States entered the Union. Presidents term dates & party affiliation
I-Independent, F-Federalist, W-Whig, D-R Democrat Republican, D-Democrat, R-Republican
States become an official State on the following July 4th of admission date except Hawaii.
* One of the original thirteen colonies.
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