President
ServiceRankActive Service
| Barack Obama | None | None | None |
| George W. Bush | Texas Air National Guard | First Lieutenant | Stateside service during Vietnam
War (1968-1973). |
| Bill Clinton | None | None | None |
| George H.W. Bush | United States
Naval Reserve | Lieutenant | World War II (1942-1945) |
| Ronald Reagan | United States Army Reserve, United States Army Air Corps | Captain | Stateside service during World
War II (1942-1945); Army
Reserve (1937-1942)See
also: List of
United States Presidents by military rank and Ronald
Reagan for more information on military service. |
| Jimmy Carter | United States Navy | Lieutenant | World War II at the United States Naval Academy Sea
duty and stateside service 1946-1953 during the Korean
War |
| Gerald Ford | United States
Naval Reserve | Lieutenant Commander | World War II (1942-1945; discharged in 1946) |
| Richard Nixon | United States
Naval Reserve | Commander | World War II (1942-1945) |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | United States
Naval Reserve | Commander[1] | World War II received Silver
Star medal after airplane he was riding in was attacked by enemy
aircraft |
| John F. Kennedy | United States Navy | Lieutenant | World War II received Navy and Marine Corps Medal and Purple
Heart |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | United States Army | General of the Army | Stateside service during World
War I. Served as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe
during World War II (1942-1945). Visited troops in Korea in December 1952. Entire
career spanned from 1915 until 1952. |
| Harry S. Truman[2] | United States Army, United States Army Reserve | Colonel | World War I (1917-1918); was then transferred to the army reserve and
retired in 1953. |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | None | None | None; however Witnessed World War I while serving as Assistant Secretary of the Navy
in France |
| Herbert Hoover | None | None | None; however he did help guide US Marines in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion |
| Calvin Coolidge | None | None | None |
| Warren G. Harding | None | None | None |
| Woodrow Wilson | None | None | None |
| William Howard Taft | None | None | None |
| Theodore Roosevelt | United States Army | Colonel | Spanish-American War –
only U.S. President to receive the Medal of Honor (awarded posthumously in 2001) |
| William McKinley | United States Army | Brevet Major | American Civil War |
| Benjamin Harrison | United States Army | Brigadier General | American Civil War |
| Grover Cleveland | None | None | None |
| Chester A. Arthur | New York State
Militia | Brigadier General | Served as quartermaster general before and during the American Civil War (1858-1865). |
| James Garfield | United States Army | Major General | American Civil War (1861-1863; left the
army to serve in the United States House of
Representatives). |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | United States Army | Major General | American Civil War |
| Ulysses S. Grant | United States Army | General of the Army | Mexican-American War
and American Civil War; served 1843-1854 and 1861-1868. |
| Andrew Johnson | United States Army | Brigadier General | American Civil War; served as Military Governor of Tennessee
in 1862. |
| Abraham Lincoln | Illinois State Militia | Captain | Black Hawk War (served three months in 1832); see Abraham Lincoln in the
Black Hawk War. |
| James Buchanan | Pennsylvania State Militia | Private | War of 1812 |
| Franklin Pierce | United States Army | Brigadier General | Mexican-American War |
| Millard Fillmore | New York State
Militia | Major | American Civil War |
| Zachary Taylor | United States Army | Major General | War of 1812, Black Hawk War, Second Seminole War, Mexican-American War;
entire career spanned from 1808 until 1848. |
| James K. Polk | Tennessee State Militia | Colonel | None |
John
Tyler | United States Army | Captain | War of 1812 |
| William Henry Harrison | United States Army | Major General | Northwest Indian War, War
of 1812 |
| Martin Van Buren | None | None | None |
| Andrew Jackson | North
Carolina militia, United States Army | General | American Revolutionary War, War
of 1812, Creek War, First Seminole War |
| John Quincy Adams | None | None | None; however he was a witness to Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775 and reportedly was a
non-participant in a Naval Battle between a British Ship and a US ship
he was on with his father during the American Revolution. |
| James Monroe | Continental Army | Major | American Revolutionary War |
| James Madison | Virginia militia | Colonel | American Revolutionary War, did
not see action |
| Thomas Jefferson | Virginia militia | Colonel | Administrative position, did not see action. As governor of
Virginia, fled during British raid to avoid capture |
John
Adams | None | None | Adams served as chairman of the Continental Congress's Board
of War (1776-1777), making him the simultaneous equivalent of
today's Secretary of Defense and Chairman of Senate Armed Services
Committee; was a semi-participant in a naval engagement between a
British and US ship during the American Revolution. |
| George Washington[3] | Virginia militia, Virginia Regiment, Continental Army | General of the Armies | French and Indian War, American Revolutionary War |
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