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President of the United States from 1853 to 1857
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...
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...
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...
No United States President has ever been formally charged with or convicted of treason under the Constitution; historical claims fall into two categories: isolated formal accusations that did not lead...
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...
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...
Historic ranking polls of U.S. presidents differ by methodology and timing, but recent expert surveys converge on a clear pattern: , while rankings for others like George W. Bush, Richard Nixon, Jimmy...
Other U.S. politicians have both and traditional oath practices in specific, documented cases, but those incidents are context-dependent and legally distinct from the current dispute over House sweari...
Scholars most often place James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Warren G. Harding and Franklin Pierce (and in many recent surveys William Henry Harrison and Herbert Hoover) below Donald Trump, though the ex...
Historians’ worst-presidents lists repeatedly place James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson and Franklin Pierce near the bottom; recent scholarly surveys also put Donald Trump very low, with Trump scoring 10.9...
is widely judged by scholars to be among the presidents—often the worst—because his administration failed to avert the secession crisis that led to the and because he presided over a fractured party a...
Historians most frequently tie -of-us-presidents">mass human suffering to presidents who mismanaged existential crises, upheld or expanded institutions of slavery, or pursued policies that produced la...
Historians and recent expert surveys place near or at the bottom of modern , with some major polls listing him dead last among all presidents evaluated and scholars grouping him with traditionally rev...
Yes — rankings of “worst” U.S. presidents vary noticeably by era and by the audience doing the ranking, with smaller but measurable splits by political ideology and persistent effects tied to race and...
Contemporary commentators most frequently liken recent presidents—above all Donald Trump, and to a lesser degree recent Republicans seen as economic or communications failures—to the long-standing ros...
Scholarly rankings repeatedly place a small group of presidents at the bottom: Donald Trump, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce and William Henry Harrison appear frequently among the wors...