Who are the five worst presidents?

[A18]

Who are the five worst presidents in United States history?

From worst to fifth worst:
1. Franklin Roosevelt
2. Woodrow Wilson
3. Abraham Lincoln
4. Lyndon Johnson
5. Herbert Hoover

[Yates]

From worst to fifth worst:
1. Warren Harding
2. Ulysses Grant
3. Martin Van Buren
4. William Taft
5. Herbet Hoover (A great man, a poor president.)

[Emsworth]

From worst to fifth worst:

1. Franklin D. Roosevelt
2. Lyndon B. Johnson
3. Woodrow Wilson
4. Abraham Lincoln
5. Benjamin Harrison

[CARLHAYDEN]

1. Abraham Lincoln
2. Woodrow Wilson
3. Lyndon Johnson
4. James Carter
5. Richard Nixon

[Virginian87]

1. James Buchanan
2. Franklin Pierce
3. Warren Harding
4. Ulysses Grant
5. Herbert Hoover-Jimmy Carter tie

[Speed of Sound]

1.Bush II
2. Reagan
3. Hoover
4. Lincoln
5. Carter

[dazzleman]

1. James Buchanan
2. Franklin Pierce
3. Warren Harding
4. Ulysses Grant
5. Herbert Hoover-Jimmy Carter tie

That's a pretty good list, though I'd part Carter on there in his own right.

[nini2287]

Going in terms of long-term effects on the country:

1) James Buchanan
2) Warren Harding
3) Franklin D. Roosevelt (his New Deal ideas weren't bad at the time, but there needed to be a time limit on them or something, also court-packing and the internment were inexcusable)
4) Andrew Jackson
5) Ulysses Grant

[A18]

1. James Buchanan
2. Franklin Pierce
3. Warren Harding
4. Ulysses Grant
5. Herbert Hoover-Jimmy Carter tie

That's a pretty good list, though I'd part Carter on there in his own right.

The biggest thing Carter did was deregulate industries. Why should he be worse than, say, FDR?

[The Duke]

Jackson
Buchanan
A. Johnson
Carter
Nixon

[opebo]

1.Bush II
2. Reagan
3. Hoover
4. Bush I
5. Nixon

[kashifsakhan]

1. Bush II
2. Ford
3. Andrew Johnson
4. Richard Nixon
5. Warren Harding
 

[© tweed]

1. Hoover
2. Harding
3. Buchanan
4. (Andrew) Johnson
5. Carter

[Beet]

1. James Buchanan
2. Franklin Pierce
3. Warren Harding
4. Ulysses Grant
5. Herbert Hoover-Jimmy Carter tie

That's a pretty good list, though I'd part Carter on there in his own right.

Carter? I haven't made you think any better of him?

[dazzleman]

1. James Buchanan
2. Franklin Pierce
3. Warren Harding
4. Ulysses Grant
5. Herbert Hoover-Jimmy Carter tie

That's a pretty good list, though I'd part Carter on there in his own right.

Carter? I haven't made you think any better of him?

Actually you have.  But my opinion of him was so low that I still consider him one of the worst presidents.

I do think he did some good things.  The only problem is that all the good things he did were unintentional and/or forced.  He never wanted to do them.  And the stuff he wanted to do was mostly bad.  So there some unintended good consequences to some of the things he did.  He would actually hate to have that as his legacy.

I also hate what he has become -- an arrogant, holier-than-thou old scold.  He ought to STFU at this point, in my opinion.

[phk]

1. Bush
2. Reagan
3. Carter
4. Nixon
5. Hoover

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

1-Bush

after him (no order):
Reagan
Buchanan
Coolidge
Jackson

[Jake]

1. Buchanan
2. Carter
3. Pierce
4. Grant
5. Madison

[DanielX]

I'm not going to rank them by order of worstness, but by era.

Pre-Civil-War: James Buchannan, Tyler as runner-up
1860-1900: Rutherford Hayes, with runner-up Johnson
1900-1933: Tie: Woodrow Wilson-Warren Harding.
1933-1975: Tie: Lyndon Johnson/Richard Nixon.
1975-present: Jimmy Carter. Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton tied runners-up.

[Bugs]

Harding
Buchanan
LBJ
Carter
Jackson

[Frodo]

1. James Buchanan
2. Andrew Johnson
3. Warren Harding
4. Ulysses S. Grant
5. Franklin Pierce

[Citizen James]

From worst to bad

Andrew Jackson
George W. Bush
Ulysses Grant
William Henry Harrison (too short a term to do anything)
Millard Filmore

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Lincoln
FDR
Wilson
TR
LBJ

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Buchanan
Reagan
Bush 43
Jackson
Harding

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