Ranking U.S. Presidents 1-42....best to worst

..1 George Washington
..2 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
..3 George Bush 43
..4 Andrew Jackson
..5 James Madison
..6 James Monroe
..7 Thomas Jefferson
..8 James K. Polk
..9 Woodrow Wilson
10 Ronald Reagan
11 Theodore Roosevelt
12 Harry Truman
13 Dwight Eisenhower
14 John Adams
15 Grover Cleveland
16 Calvin Coolidge
17 William McKinley
18 Rutherford B. Hayes
19 John Kennedy
20 Bill Clinton
21 Andrew Johnson
22 George Bush 41
23 Chester Arthur
24 Benjamin Harrison
25 John Quincy Adams
26 Jimmy Carter
27 Gerald Ford
28 Martin Van Buren
29 Herbert Hoover
30 Warren G. Harding
31 William Howard Taft
32 Franklin Pierce
33 Zachary Taylor
34 John Tyler
35 James Buchanan
36 Millard Fillmore
37 James Garfield
38 William Henry Harrison
39 Richard Nixon
40 Ulysses S. Grant
41 Lyndon Johnson
42 Abraham Lincoln

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that is rather wrong........... abe lincoln below millard fillmore and james buchanan?? the worst presidents to ever be elected??? I dont think so........ and then george bush so high? no way.

 

I would go like this.

teddy roosevelt
franklin delano roosevelt
andrew jackson
george washington
thomas jefferson
woodrow wilson
abraham lincoln
james polk
james madison
john adams
james monroe
harry truman
john f kennedy
bill clinton
ronald reagan
william mckinley
john quincy adams
grover cleveland
john tyler
zachary taylor
lyndon b johnson
dwight d eisenhower
william howard taft
calvin coolidge
rutherford b hayes
george bush sr
jimmy carter
benjamin harrison
chester arthur
ulysses s grant
herbert hoover
franklin pierce
gerald ford
george w bush
andrew johnson
william henry harrison
richard nixon
warren g harding
james buchanan
millard fillmore

did I miss any?

 

George Bush is becoming one of our great presidents.

 

elvis

 

I don't really have an opinion on many of them, so I can't rank.

I know my top 5 (no order) would be Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Abraham Lincoln.

My bottom 5 (no real order) would be Andrew Jackson (Trail of Tears... enough said), Eisenhower (his dealings with the CIA drop him very low on my list), LBJ (Vietnam), Reagan, and GWB.

Really, those are the only ones I have strong feelings about.

 

Hmmm, if I made my own list,

10 best
1. Abraham Lincoln
2. George Washington
3. Theodore Roosevelt
4. Ronald Reagan
5. Thomas Jefferson
6. John F. Kennedy
7. James Madison
8. James Monroe
9. Woodrow Wilson
10. Calvin Coolidge

6 worst
1.James Buchanan
2. Franklin Pierce
3. William Harrison(mainly for the fact he was only president for one month)
4. Jimmy Carter
5. Richard Nixon
6. Franklin Roosevelt

 

i'd have to put FDR at the bottom too.

 

OK, why did you choose the president who lead us out of the Depression and through most of WW II to be the worst?

No matter what you think of Social Security, there is something to be said for a president who suceeds in doing a bad thing vs. a president who does nothing memorable.

 

10 best
1. Abraham Lincoln
2. George Washington
3. Franklin Roosevelt
4. Thomas Jefferson
5. Andrew Jackson
6. Ronald Reagan
7. John F. Kennedy
8. Woodrow Wilson
9. James Madison
10. Bill Clinton/ Bush II (only bc there legacies have yet to be established)

10 worst
1. LBJ (with the obvious exception of the Civil Rights Movement, which was Kennedy anyway)
2. Franklin Pierce
3. William Harrison
4. Chester Arthur
5. James Garfield
6. Bush I
7. Jimmy Carter
8. Richard Nixon
9. James Buchanon
10. Andrew Johnson

 

No shit, why does everyone put him so high?

 

Because of the unheard of powers he took the Federal government too, and jeez, when he couldn't get his total way because the surpreme court decalred some things unconstitutional, he wanted the power to enlarge the court to 12 justices to he could appoint 4 more. Too many secret dealings with Churchill to, call me paranoid but I think there was more evidence of the Japansese about to attack Pearl Harbor then the people at the base knew. Roosevelt was dying to get into WW2 the day it broke out. And yes, I do disagree with alot of the programs he started too, another reason I have him so low. Also the whole 4 term thing too, I mean it was still legal back then, but still, Washington set the 2 term precedent that everyone else had followed.

 

Word.

 

It amazes me that so many people still think that he is a great president after all he did. Jackson was a piece of shit, and definately ranks as one of the worst presidents of all time in my opinion.

 

Kids today judge Andrew Jackson on the Trail of Tears. They are taught to hate Jackson by their "gay" school teachers because of "what he did to the Indians." Fact is, a lot of Indians in those days were pure savages who loved to collect white scalps. Jackson was a great hero in his time, fighting the British and driving them out of North America forever. You should visit the Hermitage, Andrew Jackson's home in Nashville, on your next vacation.

 

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I don't get why Jackson is always judged on the Trail of Tears considering that happend in 1838, when Jackson wasn't president anymore, Martin van Buren was.

 

Here's my top 5 and bottom 5 ranks for the U.S. Presidents.

5 Best

1) Theodore Roosevelt (a great reformer)
2) Abe Lincoln (held union together while suffering manic depression)
3) Dwight Eisenhower (warned America against the dangers of the military-industral complex)
4) Harry S. Truman (I consider him a more genuine liberal than FDR, also 1st president who tried to end discrimation)
5) John F. Kennedy (A true american visionary)


5 Worst

1) James Buchanan (Failed to stop the civil war)
2) Franklin Pierce (Failed to stop the civil war)
3) William Howard Taft (favored big business over the working class)
4) Millard Fillmore (weak president in general)
5) Calvin Coolidge (set the stage for the great depression though poor economic policies)

 

Taft's administration broke up quite a deal more trusts and monopolies then the trust-buster Roosevelt did.....

As for Coolidge, I defend him, he lowered taxes and lowered the national debt, he was the last president to really try to keep government out of everything, inculding the market, and to his credit, at the time it did make for the roaring 20's. I don't think many people could begin to predict in 1925 what was going to happen in 1929. Gave indians full American citizenship too.