President #31, C-SPAN Historians ranking #34 The Pac-10 goes to the White House and is not Invited Back Herbert Hoover seemingly had everything you would want from a President. He was well-educated, with a degree in geology from Stanford. He had traveled the world. He was a successful businessman. He showed he could organize people [...]
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President #11, C-SPAN Historians’ ranking #12 Looks Like My Work Here is Done Between the time of Andrew Jackson and before the time of Abraham Lincoln, American Presidents were an undistinguished lot, to put it kindly. No one served more than one term. Most are forgotten. However, one man in the job managed to stand [...]
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President #13, C-SPAN historians ranking #37 Yes, I Was President For a job that has only had 43 different men in it, it seems to hard to believe that some people to hold the office could be as obscure as Millard Fillmore. America’s 13th President, an amiable politician from Buffalo, somehow managed to work his [...]
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