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November 2, 2008
One-party rule as old as the United States
The Associated Press ASSOCIATED PRESS

The executive and legislative branches have been controlled by the same party during 69 out of 110 sessions of Congress, from the Federalists of George Washington's administration to the Republicans of Abraham Lincoln's and the modern-day GOP during the tenure of George W. Bush.
Below are the 34 presidencies during which Congress was controlled by the same party at least part of the time:
_George Washington, Federalist.
_John Adams, Federalist.
_Thomas Jefferson, Democratic Republican.
_James Madison, Democratic Republican.
_James Monroe, Democratic Republican.
_Andrew Jackson, Democrat.
_Martin Van Buren, Democrat.
_William Henry Harrison, Whig.
_John Tyler, Whig.
_James Polk, Democrat.
_Franklin Pierce, Democrat.
_James Buchanan, Democrat.
_Abraham Lincoln, Republican.
_Andrew Johnson, Republican.
_Ulysses Grant, Republican.
_James Garfield, Republican.
_Chester Arthur, Republican.
_Benjamin Harrison, Republican.
_Grover Cleveland, Democrat.
_William McKinley, Republican.
_Theodore Roosevelt, Republican.
_William Taft, Republican.
_Woodrow Wilson, Democrat.
_Warren Harding, Republican.
_Calvin Coolidge, Republican.
_Herbert Hoover, Republican.
_Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Democrat.
_Harry Truman, Democrat.
_Dwight Eisenhower, Republican.
_John Kennedy, Democrat.
_Lyndon Johnson, Democrat.
_Jimmy Carter, Democrat.
_Bill Clinton, Democrat.
_George W. Bush, Republican.
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