Abraham Lincoln
The greatest president. Lincoln held the Union together through its most existential crisis, abolished slavery, redefined American democracy in 272 words at Gettysburg, and was assassinated five days after the war ended. Everything about his story — the log cabin, the self-education, the depression, the genius — is real.
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Benjamin Harrison
#2President / Republican — North Bend, Ohio · 1889–1893
The one-term Harrison between Cleveland's two terms — Harrison lost the popular vote to Cleveland in 1892 even while winning the Electoral College in 1888. His presidency saw the admission of six new states in one year.
Calvin Coolidge
#3President / Republican — Plymouth Notch, Vermont · 1923–1929
'Silent Cal' — the most laconic president in history spoke so few words that people invented parlor games around it. Coolidge's hands-off economic policies produced the Roaring Twenties boom but set up the conditions for the 1929 crash he was lucky enough to exit before.