# The President Elimination Game **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 24, 2009, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317 "2009-09-24T01:36:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/101 "2009-09-30T20:19:58Z")
Fillmore, who’s probably best known for H.L. Mencken’s [hoax](http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Hoaxipedia/History_of_the_Bathtub/) concerning Millard’s installation of the White House’s first bathtub. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/102 "2009-09-30T20:55:48Z")
Still Hoover ---
**Author:** ![CyclopticXander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@CyclopticXander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CyclopticXander)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/103 "2009-10-01T13:15:24Z")
Fillmore. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/104 "2009-10-01T18:57:21Z")
I’m gonna vote for Fillmore, just so he comes off the list, and the General has to pick someone else. 😃 Millard Fillmore. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/105 "2009-10-02T00:34:06Z")
Filmore’s finally been whacked. George Washington (None, 1789-1797) John Adams (Federalist, 1797-1801) Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican, 1801-1809) James Madison (Democratic-Republican, 1809-1817) James Monroe (Democratic-Republican, 1817-1825) John Quincy Adams (Democratic-Republican, 1825-1829) Andrew Jackson (Democrat, 1829-1837) Martin Van Buren (Democrat, 1837-1841) John Tyler (Whig, 1841-1845) James Polk (Democrat, 1845-1849) Zachary Taylor (Whig, 1849-1850) Abraham Lincoln (Republican, 1861-1865) Ulysses Grant (Republican, 1869-1877) Rutherford Hayes (Republican, 1877-1881) Chester Arthur (Republican, 1881-1885) Grover Cleveland (Democrat, 1885-1889, 1893-1897) Benjamin Harrison (Republican, 1889-1893) William McKinley (Republican, 1897-1901) Theodore Roosevelt (Republican, 1901-1909) William Howard Taft (Republican, 1909-1913) Woodrow Wilson (Democrat, 1913-1921) Calvin Coolidge (Republican, 1923-1929) Herbert Hoover (Republican, 1929-1933) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democrat, 1933-1945) Henry Truman (Democrat, 1945-1953) Dwight Eisenhower (Republican, 1953-1961) John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Democrat, 1961-1963) Lyndon Baines Johnson (Democrat, 1963-1969) Richard Milhous Nixon (Republican, 1969-1974) Gerald Ford (Republican, 1974-1977) James Earl Carter (Democrat, 1977-1981) Ronald Reagan (Republican, 1981-1989) George Herbert Walker Bush (Republican, 1989-1993) William Jefferson Clinton (Democrat, 1993-2001) Eliminated Presidents: 1. James Buchanan (Democrat, 1857-1861) 2. Franklin Pierce (Democrat, 1853-1857) 3. Andrew Johnson (National Union, 1865-1869) 4. Warren Harding (Republican, 1921-1923) 5. Milliard Filmore (Whig, 1850-1853) James Madison. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/106 "2009-10-02T00:37:33Z")
Reagan. ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/107 "2009-10-02T00:39:33Z")
Hoover ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/108 "2009-10-02T01:27:44Z")
Whoo! Madison gets two votes this time. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/109 "2009-10-02T01:30:04Z")
Madison to continue this silly tradition of saying they’re worse than Nixon and LBJ. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/110 "2009-10-02T02:00:49Z")
N i x o n. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/111 "2009-10-02T03:43:49Z")
Will toss Hayes back in again. I am looking forward to future posts when we are deciding where the greatest of the great will belong. ---
**Author:** ![Translucent\_Daydream](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/translucent_daydream/32/16170_2.png) [@Translucent\_Daydream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Translucent_Daydream)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/112 "2009-10-02T03:49:04Z")
Sorry, I just came in and thought someone was taking bets on when Barack Obama was going to have an assassination attempt put upon him. I was freaking out! I am okay now. ---
**Author:** ![TexCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/texcat/32/9041_2.png) [@TexCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexCat)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/113 "2009-10-02T04:13:35Z")
I’ll vote for Nixon, but where is the son of a Bush? Did he already get eliminated? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/114 "2009-10-02T04:26:06Z")
**Texcat** : > [@Curtis LeMay](#): > > I have not included… **George W Bush** and Barack Obama as their terms were too recent. (bolding mine) ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/115 "2009-10-02T05:31:33Z")
Plus, while Bush was a shoddy president, he still has to compete with the guys responsible for (or who at least benignly neglected) the Depression and the Civil War. Bush just never had the chance for that impact, you know? ---
**Author:** ![Telcontar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Telcontar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telcontar)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/116 "2009-10-02T05:39:03Z")
And so we get past the easy ones. Jackson ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/117 "2009-10-02T08:46:37Z")
Hoover ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/118 "2009-10-02T14:23:46Z")
I was going to say Arthur, but Nixon and Madison are shaping up as the top contenders for this round, so I’ll cast my vote for Tricky Dick. [Here’s an account of the race](http://www.american-presidents.org/2008/11/richard-nixon-vs-helen-gahagan-douglas.html) which led to that sobriquet being attached to RMN. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/119 "2009-10-02T14:31:15Z")
John Adams. Why? If his philosophy would have prevailed, we would have far fewer freedoms (Alien and Sedition Acts) ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/120 "2009-10-02T16:29:31Z")
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