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In 2012, Newsweek magazine asked a panel of historians to rank the ten best presidents since 1900. The results showed that historians had ranked Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Woodrow Wilson, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama as the best since ...
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Abraham Lincoln (/ ˈ l ɪ ŋ k ən / LING-kən; February 12,...
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The following presidents are usually ranked highly: 1. George Washington (the first president of the United States and helped the country win the American Revolutionary War) 2. John Adams (oversaw the Quasi-War) 3. Thomas Jefferson (partly because of the Louisiana Purchase and for being the author of the Declaration of Independence) 4. James Madiso...
Some presidents have mixed ratings. For example, Andrew Jackson stood for the common man, but was criticized for implementing the Trail of Tears. Ulysses S. Grant is thought to be a bad leader since he had corruption surrounding him, but he helped African-Americans to have more rights in the Reconstruction Era. Examples of presidents with mixed opi...
John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Chester Arthur, William Howard Taft, Benjamin Harrison, Herbert Hoover, Rutherford B. Hayes, Martin Van Buren, Richard Nixon, and George W. Bushare bel...
Feb 2, 2024 · Historians' ranking of U.S. presidents 2021. Published by. Aaron O'Neill , Feb 2, 2024. In the 2021 C-SPAN Survey of Presidential Leadership, Abraham Lincoln was chosen as the country's...
Jul 2, 2021 · Who Were the Best and Worst Presidents Ever—and How Do Historians Decide? C-SPAN’s 2021 ranking places Trump near the bottom of the list. Obama, Grant rises higher, while Lincoln holds steady...
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Four presidents died in office of natural causes (William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Warren G. Harding, and Franklin D. Roosevelt), four were assassinated ( Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy ), and one resigned ( Richard Nixon, facing impeachment and removal from office). [9]
Feb 20, 2023 · Updated. Feb 20, 2023, 7:03 AM PST. Past US presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton. Getty Images. Nearly 100 historians and biographers...
Rank # President; Top 20%: 1: George Washington: 3: Thomas Jefferson: 16: Abraham Lincoln: 26: Theodore Roosevelt: 28: Woodrow Wilson: 32: Franklin D. Roosevelt: 33: Harry S. Truman: 34: Dwight D. Eisenhower: Second 20%: 2: John Adams: 4: James Madison: 5: James Monroe: 7: Andrew Jackson: 11: James K. Polk: 35: John F. Kennedy: 36: Lyndon B ...
