Who were the 4 intellectual presidents of the US?

Answer 1

You could say that to achieve the office of President of the United States, one would have to be an intellectual.

Possible list of intellectual US Presidents and why:

Thomas Jefferson because he wrote the Declaration of Independence and excelled at the written word. He studied at the College of William and Mary, then read law.

John Q. Adams because he was an accomplished linguist and assiduous diarist. He also promoted the arts and sciences and the establishment of a national university.

James Madison because he attended Princeton (then called the College of New Jersey). He participated in the framing of the Virginia Constitution in 1776, was one of the writers of the Federalist essays, and helped frame the Bill of Rights.

Woodrow Wilson because he was a professor of political science and the president of Princeton. He also envisioned the League of Nations.

John Adams: Harvard educated lawyer

James K. Polk: graduated with honors in 1818 from the University of North Carolina

Rutherford B. Hayes: educated at Kenyon College and Harvard Law School

James A. Garfield: graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts in 1856 and returned to the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute (later Hiram College) in Ohio as a classics professor.

Chester Alan Arthur: graduated from Union College in 1848, taught school, was admitted to the bar, and practiced law in New York City.

William H. Taft: graduated from Yale, then returned to Cincinnati to study and practice law

Calvin Coolidge: graduated from Amherst College with honors, and entered law and politics in Northampton, Massachusetts

Herbert Hoover: graduated from Stanford University as a mining engineer

Franklin D. Roosevelt: attended Harvard University and Columbia Law School, proposed the New Deal

Dwight D. Eisenhower: attended West Point, was president of Columbia University

John F. Kennedy: graduated from Harvard, won Pulitzer Prize

Richard M. Nixon: graduated from Whittier College and Duke University Law School, wrote numerous books on his experiences in public life and on foreign policy

Gerald R. Ford: graduated from the University of Michigan and Yale University

George H.W. Bush: graduated from Yale University

William (Bill) J. Clinton: graduated from Georgetown University, won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, received a law degree from Yale University

George W. Bush: graduated from Yale, received a business degree from Harvard

Barack Obama: became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, graduated from Harvard, taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago

Answer 2

I would say George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy & Ronald Reagan.