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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. 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 [...]

This article is part of my Presidential Rankings Series, please subscribe to the feed if you are interested in keeping up-to-date. With James Madison’s posting, today is a great time to point out something exceptionally important. When I first started contemplating the idea of ranking the Presidents, I made sure to explain exactly what the [...]

This article is part of my Presidential Rankings Series, please subscribe to the feed if you are interested in keeping up-to-date. When looking at the Presidents, James Calvin Coolidge is an odd fellow to consider. On one hand, he is a self-made man who slowly worked himself up the political ladders – a very noble [...]