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I wanted to look up the dates that one of our former presidents held office so I went to an authoritative source to get the info. Unfortunately the web page with the list of official presidential terms was in TWO COLUMNS that did not lend itself easily to saving into a text file. ARGH!!!

More than an hour later, I finally got the info into just one column of text and after going thru all the trouble of weeding out HTML commands such as script, font, table, etc. I wanna preserve just the "plain facts" for anyone else looking for the list. So here it is:

Washington, George
1789-97
Adams, John
1797-1801
Jefferson, Thomas
1801-09
Madison, James
1809-17
Monroe, James
1817-25
Adams, John
1825-29
Jackson, Andrew
1829-37
Van Buren, Martin
1837-41
Harrison, William Henry
1841
Tyler, John
1841-45
Polk, James
1845-49
Taylor, Zachary
1849-50
Fillmore, Millard
1850-53
Pierce, Franklin
1853-57
Buchanan, James
1857-61
Lincoln, Abraham
1861-65
Johnson, Andrew
1865-69
Grant, Ulysses S.
1869-77
Hayes, Rutherford B.
1877-81
Garfield, James
1881
Arthur, Chester
1881-85
Cleveland, Grover
1885-89
Harrison, Benjamin
1889-93
Cleveland, Grover
1893-97
McKinley, William
1897-1901
Roosevelt, Theodore
1901-09
Taft, William H.
1909-13
Wilson, Woodrow
1913-21
Harding, Warren
1921-23
Coolidge, Calvin
1923-29
Hoover, Herbert
1929-33
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
1933-45
Truman, Harry
1945-53
Eisenhower, Dwight
1953-61
Kennedy, John F.
1961-63
Johnson, Lyndon
1963-69
Nixon, Richard
1969-74
Ford, Gerald
1974-77
Carter, Jimmy
1977-81
Reagan, Ronald
1981-89
Bush, George H.W.
1989-93
Clinton, William J.
1993-2001
Bush, George W.
2001-present

Note - If any of the recent dates look odd to you, it's because the president is elected in November of one year but doesn't take office until January of the following year.