The President Elimination Game

And with that, the game is over. By the process of elimination, the greatest US President is:

George Washington (None, 1789-1797)

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. Millard Fillmore (Whig, 1850-1853)
  6. Richard Milhous Nixon (Republican, 1969-1974)
  7. Herbert Hoover (Republican, 1929-1933)
  8. Ronald Reagan (Republican, 1981-1989)
  9. Andrew Jackson (Democrat, 1829-1837)
  10. Rutherford Hayes (Republican, 1877-1881)
  11. Ulysses Grant (Republican, 1869-1877)
  12. John Tyler (Whig, 1841-1845)
  13. James Earl Carter (Democrat, 1977-1981)
  14. James Madison (Democratic-Republican, 1809-1817)
  15. Martin Van Buren (Democrat, 1837-1841)
  16. Woodrow Wilson (Democrat, 1913-1921)
  17. Calvin Coolidge (Republican, 1923-1929)
  18. John Adams (Federalist, 1797-1801)
  19. Benjamin Harrison (Republican, 1889-1893)
  20. Gerald Ford (Republican, 1974-1977)
  21. Zachary Taylor (Whig, 1849-1850)
  22. George Herbert Walker Bush (Republican, 1989-1993)
  23. John Quincy Adams (Democratic-Republican, 1825-1829)
  24. Chester Arthur (Republican, 1881-1885)
  25. John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Democrat, 1961-1963)
  26. William McKinley (Republican, 1897-1901)
  27. William Howard Taft (Republican, 1909-1913)
  28. Lyndon Baines Johnson (Democrat, 1963-1969)
  29. William Jefferson Clinton (Democrat, 1993-2001)
  30. James Monroe (Democratic-Republican, 1817-1825)
  31. Grover Cleveland (Democrat, 1885-1889, 1893-1897)
  32. Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican, 1801-1809)
  33. James K. Polk (Democrat, 1845-1849)
  34. Dwight Eisenhower (Republican, 1953-1961)
  35. Harry S. Truman (Democrat, 1945-1953)
  36. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democrat, 1933-1945)
  37. Theodore Roosevelt (Republican, 1901-1909)
  38. Abraham Lincoln (Republican, 1861-1865)

And for post-game celebrations, I will turn it over to Brad Neely, for his unforgettable but perhaps not entirely historically accurate (and not completely work-safe) tribute.