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 [...]
Ohio
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 [...]
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 [...]
This article is part of my Presidential Rankings Series, please subscribe to the feed if you are interested in keeping up-to-date. Wow, I am starting to get concerned about Ohio Presidents. Several died in office, and most of the rest simply have some very bad scandals follow them out of the White House. If not [...]
