Who is considered the worst US president in history?

Answer 1

Judgments of best and worst are subjective, of course, but many historians would agree on James Buchanan. He took absolutely no action when the Southern states started seceding from the Union after the election of 1860 instead of at least trying to prevent the Civil War.

Grant and Harding are two other contenders. Millard Fillmore also ranks near the bottom.

Answer 2

In no specific order, these are the presidents who are commonly considered the worst presidents by historians. Andrew Johnson He tried to do everything in his power to make sure blacks were never equal to whites after the Civil War. James Buchanan A few years before the Civil War, several southern states were seceding from the union, which would form the future Confederacy. He opposed secession, but he felt taking forceful action against it was wrong. Lyndon Johnson He sent 500,000 troops into Vietnam. As the United States was facing thousands of casualties, high taxes, high inflation, and little progress, Johnson continued to support it. Warren Harding He was a strong defender of protectionism which later turned out to be one of the Great Depression's causes. Instead of appointing skillful advisors to his cabinet, he appointed his friends, who pioneered some of the worst scandals in U.S. history. Richard Nixon He headed the worst scandals in U.S. history, Watergate. He was rather slow in withdrawing U.S. troops from Vietnam. George W. Bush Due to poor commanding skills, Al Qaeda was still not defeated, 7 years after they had launched attacks upon the U.S.

Answer 3

These are usually the presidents historians call the worst:

Andrew Johnson He tried to do everything in his power to make sure blacks were never equal to whites after the Civil War.

James Buchanan A few years before the Civil War, several southern states were seceding from the union, which would form the future Confederacy. He opposed secession, but he felt taking forceful action against it was wrong.

Lyndon Johnson He sent 500,000 troops into Vietnam. As the United States was facing thousands of casualties, high taxes, high inflation, and little progress, Johnson continued to support it.

Warren Harding He was a strong defender of protectionism which later turned out to be one of the Great Depression's causes. Instead of appointing skillful advisors to his cabinet, he appointed his friends, who pioneered some of the worst scandals in U.S. history.

Richard Nixon He headed the worst scandals in U.S. history, Watergate. He was rather slow in withdrawing U.S. troops from Vietnam.

George W. Bush Due to poor commanding skills, Al Qaeda was still not defeated, 7 years after they had launched attacks upon the U.S.

Answer 4

Ronald Reagan. The least intelligent there has ever been - "I can imagine a limited nuclear war in Europe", "This is a fight between good and evil", "the USSR is an evil empire". He was lucky he didn't destroy the world, and also, it has more recently transpired that he was going senile during his presidency.

Answer 5

Ronald Regan George W. Bush and George Bush

The person who gave this answer is obviously a partisan Democrat who lacks objectivity. In a recent survey Reagan was ranked as the 5th best President, and George H.W. Bush was not in the bottom 10. The general consensus among most historians is that the two Presidents who preceded Abraham Lincoln (James Buchanan and Franklin Pierce) and the one who followed him (Andrew Johnson) deserve that honor. The consensus choice for the two worst Republicans seem to be Herbert Hoover and Ulysses S. Grant, though I think that Rutherford B. Hayes, who allowed the South to establish the Jim Crow legal system, is more deserving than Grant, who took decisive action to get rid of the Black Codes (the antecedent of Jim Crow) and successfully fought an internal war to destroy the original Ku Klux Klan.

By the way it's spelled Reagan, not Regan

Answer 6

Herbert Hoover, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Warren G. Harding, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, and George W. Bush

Answer 7

Obama