US Presidents Portrait Quiz

Can you put a name to every face that has run the country? This quiz shows the official portrait of every US president from George Washington to the present day, and you type the names.

Because it counts presidencies rather than people, the grid has 47 cards: Grover Cleveland appears as both the 22nd and 24th president, and Donald Trump as the 45th and 47th. Each card wears its ordinal up front, and solving it reveals the years in office.

Everyone lands Lincoln and the moderns. The run-killer is the stretch of bearded, side-parted faces between Monroe and the Civil War — that's where full boards are won.

How to play

• Just start typing — answers are checked on every keystroke, no submit button. A correct name flips its card instantly.
• Surnames are enough: "lincoln" works. When a surname fits several presidents (Adams, Harrison, Johnson, Roosevelt, Bush), it solves the first unsolved match in order — type a fuller name to pick a specific one.
• Cleveland and Trump each hold two cards, and typing their name once reveals both presidencies together.
• Spelling is lenient — capitalization, periods, and hyphens are ignored — and nicknames like "FDR", "JFK", and "Ike" count.
• The timer starts on your first keystroke and counts up. Give Up ends the run and shows every portrait you missed; progress autosaves along the way.

What counts in this quiz

• All 47 presidencies, from Washington's in 1789 to the current one — one card per presidency, not per person.
• 45 different people fill those 47 cards, because two men served non-consecutive terms: Cleveland (22nd & 24th) and Trump (45th & 47th).
• Every portrait is an official public-domain government image, so what you see is how history actually pictured each president.

What's not included — and why

• "President for a day" David Rice Atchison isn't here — the March 4, 1849 story is a legend, and he was never sworn in.
• Presidents of the Continental Congress, like John Hanson, don't count: that office chaired a legislature under the Articles of Confederation and held no executive power.
• Jefferson Davis led the Confederacy, not the United States, so he has no card.

Good to know

• For 128 years Cleveland was the only person counted as two presidents — Trump became the second in 2025, which is why the presidency count outruns the people count.
• William Henry Harrison's card lists a single year, 1841: he died 31 days into his term, the shortest presidency ever.
• The "S" in Harry S. Truman stands for nothing — it split the difference between his grandfathers, Anderson Shipp Truman and Solomon Young.
• Theodore Roosevelt is the youngest person ever to hold the office (42, after McKinley's assassination); Kennedy is the youngest ever elected, at 43.