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Top 10 Worst US Presidents
1. Warren G. Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding who lived from 2nd November 1865 till 2nd August 1923, was the 29th President of
United States.Once he was even found being busy with golf, playing cards and his mistress, while appointees and cronies plundered the
U.S. government in a variety of ways.
2. Richard Nixon
The 37th President of US serving his term from 1969 to 1974, Richard
Nixon is the next name that follows the list of 10 worst US presidents. In June, 1972, several of Nixon’s men
were caught breaking into Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC –
bringing to light the infamous Watergate Scandal, Nixon himself downplayed it as a mere politics.
With a life span of 77 years, James Buchanan was the 15th president of US from 1857–1861 and was the only president who remained a lifelong bachelor. He thought African would never be citizen of America.
3. James Buchanan
Andrew Johnson was the one to succeed Abraham Lincoln after his assassination. The reason behind why people disliked him was though he
voted the civil rights bill, stating that it gave a perfect
equality of the white and black races in every State of the Union he did not support
the black in reality.
4. Andrew Johnson
Born on 23rd November 1804 and lived for 64 years.Elected
as the 14th president, the Mexican War veteran believed in national expansion even at the cost of adding more slave states. With this intention he
supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 along
with the earlier Compromise of 1850 which effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
5. Franklin Pierce
6. Millard Fillmore
Serving America from 1850–1853, Millard Fillmore was the 13th US president and
the last member of the Whig Party to hold the office of
president. He supported the Compromise of 1850 and this
action of his averted a national crisis and postponed the outbreak of the Civil War. He also signed the Fugitive Slave Act as a compromise between Southern slave-
holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
7.John Tyler
A native of Virginia, John Tyler was the 10th president to serve America from 1841–1845. Tyler
shocked Congressional Whigs by vetoing virtually the entire Whig
agenda, twice vetoing Clay’s legislation for a national banking act following the Panic of 1837 and leaving the government standstill for which he was
officially expelled from the party in 1841 and soon became
popular as “the man without a party”.
8.Ulysses S. Grant
Following his highly successful role as a war general in the second half of the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant rose to the position of 18th President serving United States from 1869–1877. Black Friday, a
gold-speculation financial crisis in September 1869 was the biggest blot in his political
career.
9.William Harrison
The first president of the United States and also the oldest elected
president until Ronald Reagan, William Harrison was selected as one of the worst US presidents in
history not only for the fact that he was the president for merely 32 days but also because he was
defeated in the presidential race two times before being finally
elected. Just after his election to the post he came down with
pneumonia that made his 30-day presidency the shortest in U.S.
history.
Herbert Hoover was elected just few months before the famous Wall Street banged down which
gave birth to the Great Depression. Be it his bad luck or his unpreparedness to deal with
such a situation, it gave a blow to his management. Unable to enact any of the measures he proposed, today his name is one among the
top 10 worst US presidents in History. His single greatest policy blunder of supporting a tariff act fueled international trade wars and made the Depression even
worse.
10. Herbert Hoover
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