# The President Elimination Game

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**Created:** [September 24, 2009, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317 "2009-09-24T01:36:57Z")\
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**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:** [January 19, 2010, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/1171 "2010-01-19T01:23:16Z")

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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](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRom1Rz8OA), for his unforgettable but perhaps not entirely historically accurate (and not completely work-safe) tribute.

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