Bill Clinton
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.
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#2President / 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.
Franklin Pierce
#3President / Democrat — Hillsborough, New Hampshire · 1853–1857
The president historians most consistently rank among the worst — Pierce's Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, opened new territories to slavery, sparked 'Bleeding Kansas,' and accelerated the country toward civil war. He was an alcoholic who lost all three of his children.