year potus party unemp change 1899 William McKinley Republican 11.62 -9.22330097087377 1903 Theodore Roosevelt Republican 4.3 -4.27590673575129 1907 Theodore Roosevelt Republican 3.29 -12.2914989657737 1911 William Howard Taft Republican 5.86 -26.5906404283429 1915 Woodrow Wilson Democratic 6.63 -20.9621993127148 1919 Woodrow Wilson Democratic 3.38 -10.2803738317757 1923 Calvin Coolidge Republican 6.93 -25.4966887417219 1927 Calvin Coolidge Republican 4.02 -3.64372469635626 1931 Herbert Clark Hoover Republican 8.94 -19.2592592592593 1935 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic 21.3 2.87539936102235 1939 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic 17.8 -21.5568862275449 1943 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic 4.7 -16.8539325842697 1947 Harry S. Truman Democratic 3.9 -22.3140495867769 1951 Harry S. Truman Democratic 5.3 -10.6463878326996 1955 Dwight David Eisenhower Republican 5.5 -8.14479638009049 1959 Dwight David Eisenhower Republican 6.8 -24.2289695686328 1963 Lyndon Baines Johnson Democratic 5.5 -1.06813513395393 1967 Lyndon Baines Johnson Democratic 3.8 -16.271186440678 1971 Richard Milhous Nixon Republican 4.9 -6.25 1975 Gerald Rudolph Ford Republican 5.6 -25 1979 Jimmy Carter Democratic 6.1 -5.13698630136987 1983 Ronald Wilson Reagan Republican 9.7 -13.5416666666667 1987 Ronald Wilson Reagan Republican 7 -2.74725274725276 1991 George Herbert Walker Bush Republican 5.6 -4.57142857142857 1995 Bill Clinton Democratic 6.1 -20.9302325581395 1999 Bill Clinton Democratic 4.5 2.42718446601941 2003 George Walker Bush Republican 5.8 3.61990950226244 2007 George Walker Bush Republican 4.6 -12.9310344827586 2011 Barack Obama Democrate 9.7 -24.9027237354086