Ranking the Presidents

This is a list, in my opinion after some research, of all the presidents from best to worst. I only wrote an explanation for one because I think that ranking requires some explanation.

1.      Abraham Lincoln

2.      George Washington

3.      Franklin Delano Roosevelt

4.      Ronald Reagan

5.      Theodore Roosevelt

6.      Thomas Jefferson

7.      James Monroe

8.      James K. Polk

9.      Andrew Jackson (most people would probably have him lower because of what he did to the Native Americans. I do think that was horrible but it’s also true that cultural understanding back then wasn’t what it is now. And it did affect my ranking of him, because he’d be number 4 if it weren’t for that with the way he fought corruption. To this day, no president has been as popular or as big a champion for the middle/working class.)

10.  Woodrow Wilson

11.  James Madison

12.  Dwight D. Eisenhower

13.  John F. Kennedy

14.  Bill Clinton

15.  Harry S Truman

16.  Howard Taft

17.  Calvin Coolidge

18.  William McKinley

19.  Benjamin Harrison

20.  John Adams

21.  Chester A. Arthur

22.  Warren G. Harding

23.  Grover Cleveland

24.  George H.W. Bush

25.  Ulysses S. Grant

26.  Gerald Ford

27.  Martin Van Buren

28.  Richard Nixon

29.  John Quincy Adams

30.  Lyndon B. Johnson

31.  Andrew Johnson

32.  Rutherford B. Hayes

33.  Millard Fillmore

34.  Herbert Hoover

35.  Jimmy Carter

36.  John Tyler

37.  Franklin Pierce

38.  James Buchanan

Cannot (Yet) be Ranked:

·         George W. Bush (I suspect he'll be towards the bottom of the middle)

·         James Garfield

·         William Henry Harrison

·         Barack Obama (I have no idea bout his ranking yet. His first 4 years saw a struggling economy but I do think Obamacare has a chance to be hugely successful)

·         Zachary Taylor