Barack Obama
The first Black president of the United States — Obama's election was a historic inflection point, and the ACA remains his most consequential legislative achievement despite a presidency defined by the contrast between his rhetorical gifts and congressional gridlock.
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Bill Clinton
#2President / Democrat — Hope, Arkansas · 1993–2001
The most politically talented Democrat of his generation — Clinton's economic stewardship produced the longest peacetime expansion in U.S. history, but the Lewinsky scandal and his impeachment permanently complicated that legacy.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#3President / Democrat — Hyde Park, New York · 1933–1945
The greatest president since Lincoln — FDR invented the modern American government. Social Security, federal bank insurance, securities regulation, rural electrification, and the New Deal transformed what government was responsible for. He also won World War II. He served 12 years and died in office.