Presidents

This series of stamps is not very attractive to me: I don’t like stamps with images of statue busts, and the colors are unappealing. The stamps are of all of the deceased Presidents at the time they were issued. The only two missing were Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt. Under U.S. law, a stamp cannot be issued for a living person and especially not for a incumbent. Hoover was still alive in 1938 and Roosevelt was the current president. The series also includes stamps for two people who weren’t President: Martha Washington, the first of the First Ladies; and Benjamin Franklin, the first Postmaster General. The denominations for them are half-cent amounts. There’s also another fractional one for the White House.

Note

This album page is full, in that I have all of the stamps. Until recently, one was used – the five-dollar stamp at the end of the last row. It took me a while to get it. Whenever I would put together an order of stamps, there were so many other stamps I wanted that are cheaper. So replacing that one wasn’t quick.

Contains 32 spots: own 32 – 32 unused, 0 used.
Page is finished.
Album or Web Page Last changed Mar 16, 2025

Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

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U.S. Presidents

1.1	✓	803	Benjamin Franklin	½c (may 1938) definitive, deep orange
1.2	✓	804	George Washington	1c (apr 1938) definitive, green
1.3	✓	805	Martha Washington	1½c (may 1938) definitive, bistre brown
1.4	✓	806	John Adams	2c (jun 1938) definitive, pink carmine
1.5	✓	807	Thomas Jefferson	3c (jun 1938) definitive, deep violet
2.1	✓	808	James Madison	4c (jul 1938) definitive, red violet
2.2	✓	809	White House (1792)	4½c (jul 1938) definitive, dark grey
2.3	✓	810	James Monroe	5c (jul 1938) definitive, bright blue
2.4	✓	811	John Quincy Adams	6c (jul 1938) definitive, red orange
2.5	✓	812	Andrew Jackson	7c (aug 1938) definitive, sepia
2.6	✓	813	Martin Van Buren	8c (aug 1938) definitive, olive
3.1	✓	814	William Henry Harrison	9c (aug 1938) definitive, pink
3.2	✓	815	John Tyler	10c (sep 1938) definitive, brown red
3.3	✓	816	James Polk	11c (sep 1938) definitive, ultramarine
3.4	✓	817	Zachary Taylor	12c (sep 1938) definitive, bright violet
3.5	✓	818	Millard Fillmore	13c (sep 1938) definitive, blue green
3.6	✓	819	Benjamin Franklin	14c (oct 1938) definitive, blue
4.1	✓	820	James Buchanan	15c (oct 1938) definitive, blue grey
4.2	✓	821	Abraham Lincoln	16c (oct 1938) definitive, black
4.3	✓	822	Andrew Johnson	17c (oct 1938) definitive, pink red
4.4	✓	823	Ulysses Grant	18c (nov 1938) definitive, brown carmine
4.5	✓	824	Rutherford Hayes	19c (nov 1938) definitive, bright violet
4.6	✓	825	James Garfield	20c (nov 1938) definitive, blue green
5.1	✓	826	Chester Arthur	21c (nov 1938) definitive, dull blue
5.2	✓	827	Grover Cleveland	22c (nov 1938) definitive, vermilion
5.3	✓	828	Benjamin Harrison	24c (dec 1938) definitive, grey black
5.4	✓	829	William McKinley	25c (dec 1938) definitive, deep red lilac
5.5	✓	830	Theodore Roosevelt	30c (dec 1938) definitive, deep ultramarine
5.6	✓	831	Howard Taft	50c (dec 1938) definitive, light red violet
6.1	✓	832	Woodrow Wilson	$1 (aug 1938) definitive, violet & black
6.2	✓	833	Warren Harding	2$ (aug 1938) definitive, black & yellow green
6.3	✓	834	Calvin Coolidge	5$ (nov 1938) definitive, black & carmine

Footnotes

Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.