Franklin D. Roosevelt
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.
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Franklin Pierce
#2President / 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The president historians most consistently rank among the worst — Pierce's Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, opened new territories to slavery, sparked 'Bleeding Kansas,' and accelerated the country toward civil war.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.
Grover Cleveland
#3President / Democrat — Caldwell, New Jersey · 1885–1889, 1893–1897
The only president to serve two non-consecutive terms — and the last Democrat to win the presidency before Woodrow Wilson. Cleveland's commitment to the gold standard, his opposition to veterans' pensions (he vetoed hundreds), and his anti-corruption stance made him simultaneously principled and deeply conservative.