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President of the United States from 1865 to 1869
Historians and academic surveys most often place James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and (in modern polls) Donald Trump among the presidents judged most harmful or least effective; common reasons given in...
The core factual dispute is whether holds the record for the most pardons or clemency actions in U.S. history. Contemporary government tallies and historical compilations indicate while President Joe ...
Historians repeatedly place a small group of presidents at the bottom of scholarly rankings: . Different major surveys use varying methods and samples, but the consensus across Siena, C‑SPAN/APSA, and...
Recent expert surveys and media compilations place Donald Trump consistently in the lower tier of presidential rankings, with some 2024 assessments ranking him as the single lowest‑rated president and...
Multiple contemporary news reports and legal analyses record that Donald J. Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in New York, making him the first U.S. president to b...
Donald Trump’s use of the presidential pardon has been described as both unusually expansive in raw counts by some analyses and unusually targeted toward political allies and January 6-related actors ...
Assessments of whether Donald Trump is "the greatest President of all time" vary sharply by audience and metric; scholarly historical rankings place him near the bottom (e.g., last in a recent scholar...
Historians’ long-running consensus names antebellum and Reconstruction-era chiefs—James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson and Franklin Pierce—among the weakest presidents in U.S. history based on failure to pr...
Historians and polls do not agree on a single “worst” top-ten U.S. president; contemporary expert surveys and journalistic tallies often place Donald Trump, James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson among the...
Joe Biden issued more acts of clemency than any prior president on record, with reporting showing totals in the thousands — commonly cited figures include about 2,490 commutations issued on Jan. 17, 2...
Donald Trump is the only U.S. president in modern history to be criminally charged and later convicted on felony counts, but his convictions and many indictments occurred after his White House term; n...
Questions asking “who is the dumbest American president ever?” collapse a complex, contested debate into an insult; historians and analysts instead use rankings, expert polls and disputed IQ estimates...
Congress has overridden a presidential veto between in U.S. history according to major compilations, with the authoritative Senate tally listing out of 2,597 vetoes (the discrepancy to older counts re...
Donald J. Trump is unquestionably one of the most polarizing modern presidents, frequently at or near the top of public “most hated” lists, but scholarly historical rankings typically place far earlie...
Historians and expert surveys most commonly name James Buchanan as the single worst U.S. president for his failure to check the slide toward Civil War, though recent polls that mix contemporary criter...
A president can be impeached more than once: the U.S. House of Representatives impeached Donald Trump twice, making him the first president to face two separate impeachments in history. The second imp...
Historians’ surveys repeatedly place James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson and — more recently — Donald J. Trump among the lowest-ranked U.S. presidents; multiple expert polls show Buchanan consistently dead...
Congress has overridden a small but consequential subset of presidential vetoes across U.S. history; . Contemporary compilations and override tallies show overrides are rare, clustered around major na...
A president can be impeached by the House and tried and removed by the Senate during a midterm election year; the U.S. Constitution places on impeachment proceedings, and historical practice confirms ...
Scholarly and popular “worst president” lists repeatedly single out a small cluster of nineteenth- and early-twentieth‑century chiefs—James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, Herbert Hoover an...