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This article is part of my Presidential Rankings Series, please subscribe to the feed if you are interested in keeping up-to-date. Thomas Woodrow Wilson came into the office of the Presidency as a man who was an extremely popular governor, a charismatic leader, and a man who had shown, while dean of Princeton University, that [...]

This article is part of my Presidential Rankings Series, please subscribe to the feed if you are interested in keeping up-to-date. Be honest here, how many of you, before reading the title, knew that Grant’s real name was Hiram? Me, I learned it last year in my Presidents class taught by Charles Smith over at [...]

This article is part of my Presidential Rankings Series, please subscribe to the feed if you are interested in keeping up-to-date. Zachary Taylor came into the office of the Presidency in an odd and, at the time, new manner. Instead of being a politician before becoming President, Taylor became the first President to never hold [...]

This article is part of my Presidential Rankings Series, please subscribe to the feed if you are interested in keeping up-to-date. This is the final installment of ‘Ohio week,’ a week where all the Presidents were from Ohio. On Saturday, we had Benjamin Harrison, on Wednesday we had William Howard Taft, and today we have [...]

This article is part of my Presidential Rankings Series, please subscribe to the feed if you are interested in keeping up-to-date. Welcome, one and all, to Ohio week. On Saturday, we had Benjamin Harrison, today we have Taft, and on Friday we will have yet another Ohioan (I think you can guess who it is, [...]

This article is part of my Presidential Rankings Series, please subscribe to the feed if you are interested in keeping up-to-date. This, my friends, is where it starts to get interesting. After a bunch of horrible Presidents, but before the great ones, comes a an area of simply mediocre leaders. Some of these men had [...]