Presidential library system

A presidential library system is a system of thirteen libraries in the United States. It is created by the Office of Presidential Libraries, which is part of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

These are offices for preserving and making available the papers, records, collections and other historical materials of every president of the United States. The presidential library system began with Herbert Hoover's library (31st president, 1929–1933).

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is the largest of the thirteen libraries. The most recent presidential library was the George W. Bush Presidential Center which opened in Texas in 2013.

List of presidential libraries

This is a list of the presidential libraries.

Denotes libraries outside the NARA Presidential Library Office (all post-Hoover administrations have presidential library holdings administered by NARA, but one will have a physical facility that is outside NARA's ownership, and another remains to be decided).

Denotes library without presidential site.

Denotes library where plans are yet to be announced.

#	President	Library name	Location	Operated by	Logo/website
1	George Washington	Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon^[1] Opened to public September 27, 2013	Mount Vernon, Virginia	Mount Vernon Ladies' Association	_website
2	John Adams	Stone Library at Adams National Historical Park Opened to public 1870	Quincy, Massachusetts	National Park Service (NPS)	_website
3	Thomas Jefferson	Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello Opened to public 1994	Charlottesville, Virginia	Thomas Jefferson Foundation	_website
4	James Madison	The Papers of James Madison at Shannon Library Opened in 1937, the Papers of James Madison went digital, April 28, 2010.	Charlottesville, Virginia	University of Virginia	_Montpelier
5	James Monroe	James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library Opened to public 1966	Fredericksburg, Virginia	University of Mary Washington	_website
6	John Quincy Adams	Stone Library at Adams National Historical Park Opened to public 1870	Quincy, Massachusetts	NPS	_website
7	Andrew Jackson	The Papers of Andrew Jackson at Hoskins Library Opened to public 1987	Knoxville, Tennessee	University of Tennessee at Knoxville	_website
15	James Buchanan	James Buchanan papers at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania Gift of the Buchanan family; transferred to the Historical Society, c. 1895–1897	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Historical Society of Pennsylvania	_website
16	Abraham Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Opened to public in 2004^[2]	Springfield, Illinois	State of Illinois	_website
17	Andrew Johnson	President Andrew Johnson Museum and Library Opened to public 1993	Tusculum, Tennessee	Tusculum College	_website
18	Ulysses S. Grant	Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library Opened to public October 15, 1966	Starkville, Mississippi	Mississippi State University Library and Ulysses S. Grant Association	_website
19	Rutherford B. Hayes	Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Opened to public 1916	Fremont, Ohio	Ohio Historical Society and Hayes Presidential Center, Inc.	_{website Archived September 1, 2013, at the Wayback Machine}
22 and 24	Grover Cleveland	Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library Opened to public October 16, 1976	Princeton, New Jersey	Princeton University	_website
25	William McKinley	William McKinley Presidential Library and Museum Memorial/Gravesite opened to the public September 1907	Canton, Ohio	Stark County Historical Society	_website
26	Theodore Roosevelt	Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library	Medora, North Dakota (planned)	Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation	_website
26		Houghton Library Collection donated in 1943	Cambridge, Massachusetts	Harvard University	_website
26		The Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University Launched in 2009	Dickinson, ND	Dickinson State University	_website
28	Woodrow Wilson	Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Opened to the public in 1990	Staunton, Virginia	Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Foundation	_website
28	Woodrow Wilson	Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library Opened to public October 16, 1976	Princeton, New Jersey	Princeton University	_website
29	Warren G. Harding	Warren G. Harding Presidential Center Opened to the public on May 12, 2021^[3]	Marion, Ohio	Ohio History Connection	_{website Archived 2020-08-21 at the Wayback Machine}
30	Calvin Coolidge	Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum Opened to the public in 1956	Northampton, Massachusetts	Forbes Library	_website
31	Herbert Hoover	Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum Dedication August 10, 1962 Rededicated August 8, 1992	West Branch, Iowa	National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)	_website
32	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum Dedicated June 30, 1941 Rededicated June 30, 2013	Hyde Park, New York	NARA	_website
33	Harry S. Truman	Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum Dedicated on July 6, 1957 Rededicated December 9, 2001	Independence, Missouri	NARA	_website
34	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home Dedicated on May 1, 1962 Rededicated on October 7, 2019	Abilene, Kansas	NARA	_website
35	John F. Kennedy	John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Dedicated on October 20, 1979 Rededicated October 29, 1993	Boston, Massachusetts	NARA	_website
36	Lyndon B. Johnson	Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum Dedicated on May 22, 1971	Austin, Texas	NARA and The University of Texas at Austin	_website
37	Richard Nixon	Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Dedicated on July 19, 1990 Rededicated October 14, 2016	Yorba Linda, California	NARA and Richard Nixon Foundation	_website
38	Gerald Ford	Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum Dedicated on September 18, 1981 Rededicated April 17, 1997	Grand Rapids, Michigan	NARA	_website
38	Gerald Ford	Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library Dedicated on April 27, 1981	Ann Arbor, Michigan	NARA	_website
39	Jimmy Carter	Jimmy Carter Library and Museum Dedicated on October 1, 1986	Atlanta, Georgia	NARA	_website
40	Ronald Reagan	Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Dedicated on November 4, 1991	Simi Valley, California	NARA	_website
41	George H.W. Bush	George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum Dedicated on November 6, 1997	College Station, Texas	NARA and Texas A&M University	_website
42	Bill Clinton	William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park Dedicated on November 18, 2004	Little Rock, Arkansas	NARA	_website
43	George W. Bush	George W. Bush Presidential Center Dedicated on April 25, 2013	Dallas, Texas	NARA and Southern Methodist University	_website
44	Barack Obama	Barack Obama Presidential Library	Digital, NARA facilities	NARA	website
44	Barack Obama	Barack Obama Presidential Center Scheduled to open in spring 2026	Chicago, Illinois^[4]	Obama Foundation^[5] and University of Chicago^[6]	_website
45 and 47	Donald Trump	Donald J. Trump Presidential Library	Digital, NARA facilities	NARA	_website
45 and 47	Donald Trump	Donald J. Trump Presidential Center (in planning)	TBA
46	Joe Biden	Joseph R. Biden Jr. Presidential Library (in planning)	TBA		_website

References

↑ O'Brien, Caitlin (April 14, 2011). "Mount Vernon Getting New Library". WRC-TV News. Retrieved September 1, 2014.
↑ "Museum History". Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. Archived from the original on August 7, 2017. Retrieved March 5, 2019.
↑ Cite error: The named reference Harding_marionstar was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).
↑ Lutz, BJ (April 30, 2015). "Chicago to Get Obama Presidential Library". WMAQ-TV News. Retrieved September 1, 2015.
↑ Clark, Anthony (January 8, 2017). "Obama Foundation Changes Presidential Libraries – Perhaps Forever". medium.com. Retrieved June 3, 2017. [I]t seems quite certain that the Obama Foundation anticipates keeping and operating both the foundation space as well as the museum on its own ...
↑ Julie Bosman & Mitch Smith, Chicago Wins Bid to Host Obama Library, New York Times, May 12, 2015.

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[1] O'Brien, Caitlin (April 14, 2011). "Mount Vernon Getting New Library". WRC-TV News. Retrieved September 1, 2014.

[2] "Museum History". Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. Archived from the original on August 7, 2017. Retrieved March 5, 2019.

[Harding_marionstar-3] Cite error: The named reference Harding_marionstar was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).

[4] Lutz, BJ (April 30, 2015). "Chicago to Get Obama Presidential Library". WMAQ-TV News. Retrieved September 1, 2015.

[5] Clark, Anthony (January 8, 2017). "Obama Foundation Changes Presidential Libraries – Perhaps Forever". medium.com. Retrieved June 3, 2017. [I]t seems quite certain that the Obama Foundation anticipates keeping and operating both the foundation space as well as the museum on its own ...

[May2015Announcement-6] Julie Bosman & Mitch Smith, Chicago Wins Bid to Host Obama Library, New York Times, May 12, 2015.

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v t e United States presidential library system
Non-NARA libraries	Washington J. and J. Q. Adams Lincoln A. Johnson Hayes McKinley T. Roosevelt (planned) Wilson Harding Coolidge Obama (planned) Biden (planned) Trump (potential)
National Archives and Records Administration libraries	Hoover F. D. Roosevelt Truman Eisenhower Kennedy L. B. Johnson Nixon Ford (L) M Carter Reagan G. H. W. Bush Clinton G. W. Bush

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