Can You Put All the U.S. Presidents in the Correct Order?

You don’t have to be a presidential scholar to know that George Washington entered office as the first-ever president of the United States in 1789. But you do need to be somewhat of an authority on presidential succession to know the 46 men who subsequently took office over the next two-plus centuries. See if you can put the presidents in the order in which they served in the quiz below:

Typically, a president is counted once regardless of the number of terms served, unless they’re non-consecutive. You’ll find Grover Cleveland on this quiz twice, since he had a four-year break from office. But not everyone agrees with this methodology: One pundit of the era explained that “[Cleveland] held two terms, but he was not two different men.” The Congressional Directory settled the matter in 1950, holding that Cleveland should be counted twice.

There are other ways to sort the commanders-in-chief. You could go by age, though that gets tricky owing to the median age on inauguration day being 55. Theodore Roosevelt is the youngest so far, entering office at 42 years and 10 months; John F. Kennedy was barely a year older. Or you could go by height, where Abraham Lincoln tops the list at 6 feet, 4 inches, with James Madison exactly one foot shorter.

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