Gerald Ford
The only person to serve as both Vice President and President without being elected to either office. Ford pardoned Nixon — a decision that likely cost him the 1976 election but is now widely viewed as the right call for national healing.
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Herbert Hoover
#2President / Republican — West Branch, Iowa · 1929–1933
The brilliant administrator who faced the worst economic catastrophe in American history and responded with policies that made it worse — Hoover's insistence on balanced budgets and voluntary solutions during the Depression destroyed millions of lives and his own legacy.
James A. Garfield
#3President / Republican — Orange, Ohio · 1881
Served 200 days — not because he died quickly, but because he was shot in July and lingered until September, with his doctors' repeated probing of the wound (with unwashed hands) likely killing him more than the bullet did. Garfield was also the last president born in a log cabin.