# Rate the presidents a different way: who was hottest? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 10, 2010, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-the-presidents-a-different-way-who-was-hottest/538939 "2010-05-10T18:02:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-the-presidents-a-different-way-who-was-hottest/538939/1 "2010-05-10T18:02:07Z")
Folk are always ranking presidents on stupid stuff like foreign policy or environment progressiveness. But let’s get serious: Which American president was best looking? Oh I know styles have changed, but ignore the ruffled muffs and look at facial features and tell me who was hottest. I have to admit, to my untutored eye, I’d have to go with our current president, Barak ‘Cutie’ Obama. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-the-presidents-a-different-way-who-was-hottest/538939/2 "2010-05-10T18:05:08Z")
My spousal-unit commented on the new ten-dollar bill saying “Who knew that Alexander Hamilton was so cute”. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-the-presidents-a-different-way-who-was-hottest/538939/3 "2010-05-10T18:08:38Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > My spousal-unit commented on the new ten-dollar bill saying “Who knew that Alexander Hamilton was so cute”. Hamilton was a looker, but he wasn’t president. I don’t know. Obama is a good choice, he’s a pretty good-looking guy. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-the-presidents-a-different-way-who-was-hottest/538939/4 "2010-05-10T18:08:56Z")
Yeah, I’d have to go with Hussein, too. Not because he’s particularly attractive, but because come on, [look](http://americanhistory.about.com/od/uspresidents/ig/Images-of-US-Presidents/index.01.htm) at these guys. Although John Tyler kind of had that “creepy, but I might do him if his personality were cool and I were drunk enough” thing going on. ---
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-the-presidents-a-different-way-who-was-hottest/538939/5 "2010-05-10T18:26:36Z")
What about Kennedy? He was always referred to as ‘young and handsome’ but I never really saw it. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-the-presidents-a-different-way-who-was-hottest/538939/6 "2010-05-10T18:31:15Z")
If we didn’t have the current guy in office, I’d say Kennedy was the hottest, and for the same reason. I don’t see the handsome either, but he’s not in handsome company. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-the-presidents-a-different-way-who-was-hottest/538939/7 "2010-05-10T18:38:02Z")
The trouble is that, by the time they get elected, they no longer look so hot. For example, [Gerald Ford](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GeraldFord1945.jpg) was pretty good looking at the age of 31 or 32. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-the-presidents-a-different-way-who-was-hottest/538939/8 "2010-05-10T18:38:53Z")
You know, young W wasn’t bad looking either. Kinda had a unibrow, but whatever. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-the-presidents-a-different-way-who-was-hottest/538939/9 "2010-05-10T18:50:34Z")
Definitely Obama. But I would do Lincoln. ---
**Author:** ![mo50](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@mo50](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mo50)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-the-presidents-a-different-way-who-was-hottest/538939/10 "2010-05-10T18:52:05Z")
I always thought Kennedy was supposedly the real playboy & the best looking, I mean hell, he was sleeping w/ Marylin Monroe wasn’t he? Then again, power is a great aphrodisiac. I bet even Howard Taft & Millard Fillmore, James Polk & whoever you want to name musta looked pretty hot to someone way back when. Hell, women swooned over Bubba, fer chrissakes. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-the-presidents-a-different-way-who-was-hottest/538939/11 "2010-05-10T18:54:39Z")
[Franklin Pierce](http://americanhistory.about.com/od/uspresidents/ig/Images-of-US-Presidents/Franklin-Pierce.htm) has a sort of Timothy Hutton thing going on in this portrait. FWIW. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-the-presidents-a-different-way-who-was-hottest/538939/12 "2010-05-10T18:56:04Z")
Hey, Bubba had\* charisma\*. So does Obama. So did Kennedy, for that matter. I would do any of those guys- not Kennedy now, of course- I don’t like 'em that stiff. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-the-presidents-a-different-way-who-was-hottest/538939/13 "2010-05-10T19:10:21Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > The trouble is that, by the time they get elected, they no longer look so hot. For example, [Gerald Ford](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GeraldFord1945.jpg) was pretty good looking at the age of 31 or 32. [Reagan, too](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reagan_in_Kings_Row.jpg)…[hell, even in his 50s, he wasn’t half bad looking. (Nor was Nancy.)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ronald_Reagan_and_Nancy_Reagan_aboard_a_boat_in_California_1964.jpg) Going back a ways, Teddy Roosevelt was a [fine looking young man, too](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TR_Buckskin_Tiffany_Knife.jpg). In office, I have to give the nod to Kennedy, with Obama close behind… ---
**Author:** ![Lunar\_Saltlick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/977dab/32.png) [@Lunar\_Saltlick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lunar_Saltlick)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-the-presidents-a-different-way-who-was-hottest/538939/14 "2010-05-10T19:20:42Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > The trouble is that, by the time they get elected, they no longer look so hot. For example, [Gerald Ford](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GeraldFord1945.jpg) was pretty good looking at the age of 31 or 32. He was the spitting image of Kruger, one of George Costanza’s bosses. Even has the slightly mystified expression. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-the-presidents-a-different-way-who-was-hottest/538939/15 "2010-05-10T19:37:30Z")
Are we supposed to consider their hotness when they were younger, or when they were president? Because most of them were, like, old men. Kennedy and Obama (the two most frequently mentioned here) happen to be our two youngest presidents, aren’t they? ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-the-presidents-a-different-way-who-was-hottest/538939/16 "2010-05-10T19:40:02Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > Kennedy, with Obama close behind… Oh yeah, thanks for _that_ mental image… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-the-presidents-a-different-way-who-was-hottest/538939/17 "2010-05-10T19:44:24Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > Are we supposed to consider their hotness when they were younger, or when they were president? Because most of them were, like, old men. Kennedy and Obama (the two most frequently mentioned here) happen to be our two youngest presidents, aren’t they? > **[List of presidents of the United States by age](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States_by_age)** > > This is a list of presidents of the United States by age. The first table charts the age of each president of the United States at the time of their inauguration (first inauguration if elected to multiple and consecutive terms), upon leaving office, and at the time of death. Presidents who are still living have their lifespans and post-presidency timespans calculated through December 14, 2025. > Article Two of the United States Constitution provides that U.S. presidents must be at least 35 ye... TR, Bill Clinton, and US Grant were all younger than Obama. And that’s all I’m going to say about that. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-the-presidents-a-different-way-who-was-hottest/538939/18 "2010-05-10T19:52:51Z")
The young Woodrow Wilson wasn’t too difficult to look at. [http://home.comcast.net/~fahinton/WilsonBoyhoodHome/images/young-wilson.jpg](http://home.comcast.net/~fahinton/WilsonBoyhoodHome/images/young-wilson.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-the-presidents-a-different-way-who-was-hottest/538939/19 "2010-05-10T19:54:19Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > Hamilton was a looker, but he wasn’t president. > > I don’t know. Obama is a good choice, he’s a pretty good-looking guy. HEY!!! Don’t confuse me with the facts, dammit! And… uh… it WAS my spousal-unit’s observation, so take it up with her. Meanie. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-the-presidents-a-different-way-who-was-hottest/538939/20 "2010-05-10T20:09:36Z")
[Teddy Roosevelt in 1885](http://www.exploretheoldwest.com/images/Teddy%20Roosevelt%20in%20the%20Badlands%20of%20North%20Dakota.gif), age 27, Badlands hunter. [Teddy Roosevelt in 1895](http://mentalfloss.cachefly.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/435_Tr_nyc_police_commissioner.jpg), age 37, New York City Police Comissioner. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-the-presidents-a-different-way-who-was-hottest/538939.md?page=2)