Presidential Rankings

I was thinking it would be fun to put out my rankings of the Presidents and my reasons for it. I been thinking about it for a little while now and I think it would be cool for my readers to tell me where they agree or disagree. I’m thinking we’ll agree for the most part but I sure there will be a few disagreements. So without further ado here are the rankings:

1. Abraham Lincoln: Led the country through its darkest hour.
2. George Washington: Father of the country did a good job as the first president, set the tone for the rest.
3. Franklin D. Roosevelt: New Deal helps lead the country out of the Great Depression, lead US through WWII, greatest Democratic President no question.
4. Theodore Roosevelt: Square deal and the regulation of industry one of many Republican presidents who would be Democrats today.
5. Thomas Jefferson: Louisiana Purchase good for America.
6. Andrew Jackson: The first populist president
7. Harry S Truman: Marshall Plan and the de-segregation the military
8. John F. Kennedy: Peace Corps and Cuban Missile Crisis resolution
9. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Got us out of Korea (well sort of) and built the highway system
10. Lyndon B. Johnson: Great Society Program, Voting Rights Act, Civil Rights Act
11. Woodrow Wilson: Lead us through WWI
12. James K. Polk: Resolved the Oregon boundary dispute, Got us Texas (mixed results there), and led us through Mexican-American war which was a pivotal moment for the US.
13. James Monroe: Monroe Doctrine
14. James Madison: Led us through war of 1812
15. Bill Clinton: The only reason he at 21 right now in most historians rankings is that he is ranked last in moral authority, how is lower than Nixon and the pre-Civil War Presidents I do not know. But Clinton achieved a lot including Reducing the federal deficit, Americorps, School-to-Work Program, A cease-fire in Northern Ireland, A Peace Agreement between Israel and Palestine, 22 million new jobs, and increased minimum wage, and The Brady Bill.
16. Grover Cleveland: Modernized the US Navy
17. John Quincy Adams: Good statesman who continued the policies of James Monroe
18. William McKinley: Led us through Spanish American war, got us Guam, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii
19. Martin Van Buren: Poor’s man Andrew Jackson (ok very poor man)
20. Jimmy Carter: Help to negotiate peace between Egypt and Israel
21. Gerald Ford: Help stabilize the country after the Nixon Administration
22. William H. Taft: Tried to be a progressive.
23. George HW Bush: Persian Gulf War
24. Chester A. Arthur: Helped established the Greenwich Meridian
25. Rutherford B. Hayes: Signed a bill which allowed female lawyers to argue before the Supreme Court
26. Ronald Reagan: Helped to end the Cold War by making the USSR spend itself into the ground, put Sandra Day O’Conner on the Supreme Court
27. Benjamin Harrison: Sherman Anti-trust Act
28. Andrew Johnson: Let reconstruction happen in the South
29. Ulysses S. Grant: Treaty of Washington
30. John Adams: Alien and Sedition Act
31. Zachary Taylor: Formed the Department of the Interior
32. George W. Bush: I can count the polices of his I support on one hand
33. Calvin Coolidge: Did not do much help contribute to stock market crash
34. Herbert Hoover: Did noting after stock market crash
35. James A. Garfield: Died in office, did nothing
36. William Henry Harrison: Died in office did nothing
37. Tyler: Did nothing in office
38. Richard Nixon: Watergate
39. Harding: Teapot Dome Scandal
40. Pierce: Did nothing to stop the Civil War from happening
41. Millard Fillmore: Fugitive Slave Act
42. James Buchanan: Did nothing to stop Civil War from happening