Who is the WORST President in US History (OTHER than the incumbent)?

Question

Bush's term is not over, so there is no way to make a fair historical assesment of his Presidency. I want to know where the bar currently sits as far as Bad US Presidents goes.

Answer 1

Here's a few - hard to pick one, Harding, Nixon and Grant for the scandals in their administrations. Andrew Jackson for his deplorable treatment of Native Americans and attemps to dismantle the banking system (which later caused a brief depression) And here's one that will get me in deep doo-doo with lots of people. John F. Kennedy. Yes the sainted JFK, who is only considered to be such a wonderful saint because of the fact that he died. Had he served out his term, I don't know that he would have been re-elected. He was a pompous *** who would scr-- anything that moved and the few crises he handled, he handled badly - such as The Bay of Pigs and upping the troop levels in Vietnam.

Answer 2

President Bush doesn't even finish in the top ten worst presidents. Your political bias is showing, my friend. The worst US presidents were probably John Quincy Adams, James Buchanan, Ulysses S Grant, Warren G Harding, and Herbert Hoover.

I find it humorous that the same arguments people put forth as "proof" that President Bush is a terrible president are the same things people said about Andrew Jackson. Today, Jackson is considered one of our greatest presidents.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

None of the four presidents before the Civil War was much good: Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce and Buchanan. Being awful doesn't have to stop you being re-elected - Grant was. Harding was hopeless too. Pierce and Chester A. Arthur suffered the ultimate political humiliation of not being reselected by their party. Take your pick.

Answer 5

Warren G. Harding to me is the worst President in US history because his administration was loaded with scandals, his policies alon with Coolidge's concerning the role of untethered business and not Hoover was a reason for the Great Depression(there are many and it was a world wide depression and not only US). Grant comes in a close second for basically the same reasons except he had a great Secy of State in HamiltonFish who was ahead of times when it came to state issues. Also a close third would be the second term of Richard Nixon.

Answer 6

Most polls have put Warren G Harding as the worst president the US has had.

My contender, for the worst is William Henry Harrison who gave the longest inaugural address in American history. He caught a cold, which then developed into pneumonia and pleurisy. He couldn't shut up if his life depended on it.

Answer 7

Andrew Jackson. He slaughtered Native Americans through government practice and even turned down the request of the man who possibly helped save his life during a battle to end "The Trail of Tears."

Answer 8

Andrew Jackson - He was responsible for more deaths of Native Americans and African Americans than many of the Presidents before him.

Lincoln was weak too. He thought that the white man was superior to blacks! He did not free the slaves - he saved the union - and the slaves in the north and the boardering states were not freed by him. He freed them in the south to cause problems for the confederates

Goerge Washington - rapping slaves high on weed!

To tell you the truth - none of them are worth a damn!

Answer 9

Richard Nixon

Answer 10

Probably Harding, although it also depends on what facets of the Presidency you're looking at. But overall, if I can't pick Bush, I'd choose Harding.