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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. 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, [...]

Yes, I am aware that this will be controversial, but, as I have said from the start, it is based on performance, not anything else. This article is part of my Presidential Rankings Series, please subscribe to the feed if you are interested in keeping up-to-date. Some Presidents enter office on their own, with little-to-no-help [...]

This article is part of my Presidential Rankings Series, please subscribe to the feed if you are interested in keeping up-to-date. Like I said back in my Garfield article, I am start to get a bit concerned about Ohio Presidents. Fitting well into the mold of killed-in-office, William McKinley, the “Idol of Ohio,” served as [...]