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Sources and portraits
Tenure dates, parties, vice presidents and achievements come from each president's Wikipedia article and its official-portrait photo, checked against Wikipedia's article summaries. Party shows the party a president was elected with; John Tyler was expelled by the Whigs in 1841, and Andrew Johnson was a Democrat elected on Lincoln's National Union ticket.
The portraits are drawn in the stipple-and-hatch hedcut style that financial newspapers made famous. Each one was redrawn by an AI image model from the public-domain photo or painting on that president's Wikipedia page, then cleaned up to pure ink on white. They are illustrations, not photographs: small details may differ from the source.
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Source photo credits
| President | Source | License |
|---|---|---|
| George Washington | Gilbert Stuart | Public domain |
| John Adams | Gilbert Stuart | Public domain |
| Thomas Jefferson | Rembrandt Peale | Public domain |
| James Madison | John Vanderlyn | Public domain |
| James Monroe | Samuel Finley Breese Morse | Public domain |
| John Quincy Adams | Mathew Brady | Public domain |
| Andrew Jackson | Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl | Public domain |
| Martin Van Buren | Mathew Benjamin Brady | Public domain |
| William Henry Harrison | Albert Gallatin Hoit | Public domain |
| John Tyler | George Peter Alexander Healy | Public domain |
| James K. Polk | Mathew B. Brady | Public domain |
| Zachary Taylor | Unknown (daguerreotype, c. 1843–45) | Public domain |
| Millard Fillmore | Mathew Benjamin Brady | Public domain |
| Franklin Pierce | Mathew Benjamin Brady / Adam Cuerden | Public domain |
| James Buchanan | After a Mathew Brady daguerreotype | Public domain |
| Abraham Lincoln | Alexander Gardner | Public domain |
| Andrew Johnson | Mathew Benjamin Brady | Public domain |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress | Public domain |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | Mathew Benjamin Brady | Public domain |
| James A. Garfield | Brady-Handy Photograph Collection | Public domain |
| Chester A. Arthur | Abraham Bogardus / Adam Cuerden | Public domain |
| Grover Cleveland | Napoleon Sarony | Public domain |
| Benjamin Harrison | Adam Cuerden | Public domain |
| William McKinley | Unknown author | Public domain |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Adam Cuerden | Public domain |
| William Howard Taft | Pach Brothers, restored by Adam Cuerden | Public domain |
| Woodrow Wilson | Harris & Ewing, photographer | Public domain |
| Warren G. Harding | Harris & Ewing, photographer | Public domain |
| Calvin Coolidge | Harris & Ewing | Public domain |
| Herbert Hoover | Underwood & Underwood | Public domain |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Leon Perskie | CC BY 2.0 |
| Harry S. Truman | National Archives and Records Administration | Public domain |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | White House | Public domain |
| John F. Kennedy | Cecil W. Stoughton | Public domain |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Arnold Newman | Public domain |
| Richard Nixon | U.S. Department of the Army | Public domain |
| Gerald Ford | David Hume Kennerly | Public domain |
| Jimmy Carter | U.S. Navy Naval Photographic Center | Public domain |
| Ronald Reagan | Michael Evans | Public domain |
| George H. W. Bush | David Valdez | Public domain |
| Bill Clinton | Bob McNeely, The White House | Public domain |
| George W. Bush | Eric Draper | Public domain |
| Barack Obama | Pete Souza, The White House | Public domain |
| Donald Trump | Daniel Torok | Public domain |
| Joe Biden | Adam Schultz | Public domain |
