U.S. Presidents
Sixteen U.S. Presidents have been members of the Sons of the American Revolution. All but 9
can trace their ancestry to Revolutionary War Patriots.
No. | President | Served | Born |
NSSAR
Member |
| 1 | George Washington | 1789-1797 | 1732 Westmoreland Co., VA | Patriot |
| 2 | John Adams | 1797-1801 | 1735 Braintree (Quincy), MA | Patriot |
| 3 | Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | 1743 Shadwell, VA | Patriot |
| 4 | James Madison | 1809-1817 | 1751 Port Conway, VA | Patriot |
| 5 | James Monroe | 1817-1825 | 1758 Westmoreland Co., VA | Patriot |
| 6 | John Q. Adams | 1825-1829 | 1767 Braintree (Quincy), MA | Real Son of Patriot |
| 7 | Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | 1767 Waxhaw District, SC | Patriot |
| 8 | Martin Van Buren | 1837-1841 | 1782 Kinderhook, NY | Real Son of Patriot |
| 9 | William H. Harrison | 1841 | 1773 Berkeley, VA | Real Son of Patriot |
| 10 | John Tyler | 1841-1845 | 1790 Greenway, VA | Real Son of Patriot |
| 11 | James K. Polk | 1845-1849 | 1795 Mecklenburg Co., NC | Grandson of Patriot |
| 12 | Zachary Taylor | 1849-1850 | 1784 Orange Co., VA | Real Son of Patriot |
| 13 | Millard Fillmore | 1850-1853 | 1800 Cayuga Co., NY | Grandson of Patriot |
| 14 | Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | 1804 Hillsboro, NH | Real Son of Patriot |
| 15 | James Buchanan | 1857-1861 | 1791 Mercersburg, PA | No |
| 16 | Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | 1809 Hardin Co., KY | Grandson of Patriot |
| 17 | Andrew Johnson | 1865-1869 | 1808 Raleigh, NC | No |
| 18 | Ulysses S. Grant | 1869-1877 | 1822 Point Pleasent, OH | Sons of Revolutionary Sires |
| 19 | Rutherford B. Hayes | 1877-1881 | 1822 Delaware, OH | Yes |
| 20 | James A. Garfield | 1881 | 1831 Orange, OH | G Grandson of Patriot |
| 21 | Chester A. Arthur | 1881-1885 | 1829 Fairfield, VT | Grandson of Patriot |
| 22 | Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889 | 1837 Caldwell, NJ | Grandson of Patriot |
| 23 | Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | 1833 North Bend, OH | Yes |
| 24 | Grover Cleveland | 1893-1897 | 1837 Caldwell, NJ | Grandson of Patriot |
| 25 | William McKinley | 1897-1901 | 1843 Niles, OH | Yes |
| 26 | Theodore Roosevelt | 1901-1909 | 1858 New York, NY | Yes |
| 27 | William H. Taft | 1909-1913 | 1857 Cincinnati, OH | Yes |
| 28 | Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | 1856 Staunton, VA | No |
| 29 | Warren G. Harding | 1921-1923 | 1865 Corsica, OH | Yes |
| 30 | Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | 1872 Plymouth, VT | Yes |
| 31 | Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | 1874 West Branch, IA | Yes |
| 32 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1933-1945 | 1882 Hyde Park, NY | Yes |
| 33 | Harry S Truman | 1945-1953 | 1884 Lamar, MO | Yes |
| 34 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | 1890 Denison, TX | Yes |
| 35 | John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | 1917 Brookline, MA | No |
| 36 | Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | 1908 Stonewall, TX | Yes |
| 37 | Richard M. Nixon | 1969-1974 | 1913 Yorba Linda, CA | GGG Grandson of Patriot |
| 38 | Gerald R. Ford | 1974-1977 | 1913 Omaha, NE | Yes |
| 39 | James E. Carter, Jr. | 1977-1981 | 1924 Plains, GA | Yes |
| 40 | Ronald W. Reagan | 1981-1989 | 1911 Tampico, IL | No |
| 41 | George H.W. Bush | 1989-1993 | 1924 Milton, MA | Yes |
| 42 | William J. Clinton | 1993-2001 | 1946 Hope, AR | No |
| 43 | George W. Bush | 2001-2009 | 1946 New Haven, CT | Yes |
| 44 | Barack H. Obama | 2009-2017 | 1961 Honolulu, HI | No |
| 45 | Donald J. Trump | 2017-2021 | 1946 Queens, NY | No |
| 46 | Joseph R. Biden Jr. | 2021-2025 | 1942 Scranton, PA | No |
| 47 | Donald J. Trump | 2025-2029 | 1946 Queens, NY | No |
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