The President Elimination Game

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941

Although Cleveland was a far more honest and admirable person, and although (as I’ve noted) the Lousiana Purchase was contrary to Jefferson’s often- and piously-expressed principles of limited government, it was a whopper of an accomplishment that far surpassed anything Cleveland did.

With some reluctance… Cleveland.

942

Cleveland, for the last time.

943

Grover Cleveland. Pleasantly surprised to see he made it this far. I only wish I could be voting for Zachary Taylor at this juncture.

944

Cleveland

945

I’ll put up a vote for Jefferson though I know it is hopeless. Can’t like a President that wanted to see the country stay in the hands of rich farmers and was against expansion and banking.

946

Cleveland.

947

Cleveland!

948

Cleveland.

949

Polk.

950

Jefferson.

951

Cleveland.

952

Cleveland

953

Cleveland. Can we call this one early and get onto the next round?

954

I count 13 Clevelands, 3 Jeffersons, and a Polk, so yeah.

955

Cleveland is voted out for the first (consecutive) time.

George Washington (None, 1789-1797)
Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican, 1801-1809)
James Polk (Democrat, 1845-1849)
Abraham Lincoln (Republican, 1861-1865)
Theodore Roosevelt (Republican, 1901-1909)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democrat, 1933-1945)
Harry S. Truman (Democrat, 1945-1953)
Dwight Eisenhower (Republican, 1953-1961)

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)

Jefferson.

Voting closes Thursday at 2 PM.

956

Jefferson!

957

Jefferson. A great man, but far more for his time out of office than in.

BTW, I note that the final eight comprise three Democrats, three Republicans, and two Other. Fair and balanced, we are. :wink:

958

Jefferson, absolutely.

959

Yeah, my first pick from this group is Jefferson.

960

It’s close between Jefferson and Polk. Jefferson did pull off the Louisiana Purchase, but that largely fell into his lap as Napoleon was cash-poor and just didn’t care about North America anymore. Giving TJ full credit for Louisiana is like giving Bill Clinton credit for protease inhibitors. Polk, on the other hand, reacted to a threat (Mexico attacked the US, not the other way around), set an agenda, followed through, stood up to the Brits (eh, who needs Vancouver) and got out. Granted, his actions may have precipitated the crisis over slavery, but as we’ve shown, that could have been–and should have been–averted.

I vote Jefferson.