Best President there never was.

[Don Vito Corleone]

[GeorgiaModerate]

Here's my full list of people who would have been great and actually ran a real campaign:

Hugh Lawson White, 1836
John Bell, 1860
Alf Landon, 1936
Thomas Dewey, 1944, 1948
George Romney, 1968
Nelson Rockefeller, 1968
Bob Dole, 1980, 1996
Lamar Alexander, 1996
John McCain, 2000, 2008
Fred Thompson, 2008
Mitt Romney, 2012
Lindsey Graham, 2016
Marco Rubio, 2016
Jeb Bush, 2016

People I would have liked to see as President but as far as I'm aware, never ran:

Cordell Hull
Curtis LeMay
Howard Baker
Dick Cheney

However, one towers above them all. One who would have been a kick-ass President but gave up too soon. I believe he would have been the greatest President in American history. That man is:

Bill Frist

Howard Baker ran in 1980.  I agree he would have been a good President.

[hokey398]

Al Gore
Robert Kennedy
Ted Kennedy
Mitt Romney
John McCain

[The Govanah Jake]

William J. Bryan over McKinley
James B. Weaver over Harrison and Cleveland
Hubert Humphrey over Nixon
Mario Cuomo over Reagan
Russ Feingold over Bush
Paul Wellstone over Bush
Estes Kefauver over Eisenhower

Leonard Wood over Harding
Robert La Follette over Coolidge
The John McCain of 2000 over Bush
Nelson Rockefeller over Nixon
George Romney or Nixon
Mark Hatfield over Nixon
John Anderson over Reagan

[darklordoftech]

Hannibal Hamlin

William Jennings Bryan

Robert La Follete

Earl Warren

Hubert Humphrey

Robert Kennedy

Eugene MCarthy

George Romney

George McGovern

Frank Church

John Anderson

Bush 1980

Michael Dukakis

Al Gore

[Free Bird]

Sam Tilden

William Jennings Bryan

Al Smith

Thomas Dewey

Nelson Rockefeller

John Connolly

Howard Baker

Bob Dole

Mitt Romney

Ron Paul

[Cold War Liberal]

Curtis LeMay

God help us all if Curtis LeMay had ever had the nuclear codes, especially if we were at war...

[MAINEiac4434]