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Historical Rankings of U.S. Presidents

Scholarly surveys and media assessments of U.S. presidents, including the Presidential Greatness Project and University of Houston surveys

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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...