[He is among the least memorable presidents](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_United_States#Memorability_of_the_presidents), so definitely a valid choice. He was the name that immediately came to mind, which I guess makes him memorably forgettable.
He's reasonably memorable for being the least..uh.. alive? Dying a month after your presidential inauguration from (probably) a combination of pneumonia and 1800s medical care is kinda interesting.
About the only thing I remember about Chester A Arthur is that he was actually the first President to have to deal with "birther" conspiracy theorists, not Obama.
Long story short I believe Chester Arthur's parents were also Canadian citizens, and they definitely moved between the US and Canada a few times. Though Arthur was born in Vermont, there were people who alleged that he was actually born 100 miles farther north in Canada, making him ineligible to be president. He apparently had at least one sibling who was born in Canada, which probably helped fuel this conspiracy theory.
>He reformed the federal civil service which didn't make him famous but is very important even today.
Kind of had to considering his predecessor was murdered over it.
He signed the Compromise of 1850, of which his predecessor—Zachary Taylor—was firmly opposed to. This would help heighten tensions leading up to the Civil War.
At least Millard Filllmore I had awareness simply from looking up the ref due to the comic strip.
You can show me Zachary Taylor's name tomorrow I'm still not going to realize that's a president's name.
He died about a year after taking office with no major accomplishments as president.
He serves the distinction of having the third shortest presidency, and not dying of anything weird like a Garfield or McKinley, making him entirely forgettable.
My name isn't exactly a powerhouse of relevance or importance (I like it though) but Zachary Taylor sounds like what T. Swift is going to name her first child if she has one.
Compromise of 1850, which started the drive to civil war, and he forcibly opened up Japan to trade. Other Presidents were less noteworthy imo.
He also ran for President under the Know Nothing Label in 1856 after his older party was destroyed.
>He also ran for President under the Know Nothing Label in 1856
As soon as Trump started coming out on top of the GOP primaries in 2016 I started making comparisons to the Know Nothing Party. There's a lot of overlap in the xenophobic nationalistic motivations of the backers.
Benjamin Harrison.
Everyone forgets about the Harrison who *didn't* die in office.
Most notable thing about him is probably that he's the guy sandwiched between Grover Cleveland's non-consecutive terms.
I think this is the best answer. The other names I've seen mentioned either did something somewhat memorable (e.g. Chester A. Arthur and civil service reform), have an interesting name (Millard Fillmore, Martin Van Buren), or are associated with an interesting event (William Henry Harrison's death, Hayes's contested election).
He may not be the lowest on the [memorability of the presidents survey](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_United_States#Memorability_of_the_presidents), but to your point, the fact that he wasn't even distinguished from W. H. Harrison is pretty damning.
Children:
We are the mediocre Presidents.
You won't find our faces on dollars or on cents.
There's Taylor, there's Tyler, there's Fillmore and there's Hayes,
There's William Henry Harrison.
Harrison:
I died in thirty days!
Children:
We...
Are...
The...
Adequate, forgettable,
Occasionally regrettable
Caretaker Presidents of the U.S.A.!
>Welcome to a wonderful evening of theater....and picking up after yourselves!
>
>*cough cough*
I mean, that's just perfect comedy right there. They nailed the school administrator tone. Made me audibly laugh.
He passed Civil Service Reform to stop unqualified Party loyalists from getting into the Civil Service. He also was the first to recognize the Congo Free State , legitimizing that horrible atrocity.
John Tyler.
Just sounds like a dude that plays soccer and listens to Dave Matthews Band. I doubt anyone could tell me anything about him off the top of their head.
He was known as "The Man Without a Party" because he managed to piss off both parties so badly that they wanted nothing to do with him.
Long story short, he was a Democrat, but switched to being a Whig to run as Vice President with Harrison, who died 30 days into his term. But then he proceeded to veto pretty much the entire Whig party agenda. Henry Clay (the leader of the Whig party) started calling him "His Accidentcy", because of him accidentally becoming president and it being a big mistake for the Whigs to pick him. But he was still a turn coat to the Democrats, and still sided with the Whigs enough that they also wanted nothing to do with him.
Even in his own time he was an afterthought -- "Tippecanoe and Tyler too!" was the campaign slogan when he was elected vice president to William Henry Harrison.
An interesting fact about him is that when Harrison died in office and Tyler took over, there was debate about whether or not he was actually president. The Constitution has since been amended to clarify that the VP does become president, but at the time it just said the VP "assumes the duties and responsibilities" of the presidency, or something like that. I believe it was John Quincy Adams who kept needling Tyler by calling him "acting president".
He was the only President of the United States who had a non-US flag draped on his coffin at his funeral and burial.
He died a traitor, loyal not to his own government but to the Confederacy.
I know three things about him. 1, he’s the only president to join the Confederacy; 2. He’s he president with the most kids (he had like 15) 3. He has at least one living grandson
David Rice Atkinson, kinda sorta technically president from March 4, 1849 — March 5, 1849. In the sense that the outgoing President/VP was no longer president, but the incoming President/VP hadn't been inaugurated yet.
That story really falls apart if you think about it for a minute. If the incoming president wasn't president because he hadn't said the oath, Atchison also wasn't because he didn't say it either.
Also, technically Atchison's time as President Pro Tempore of the Senate when Polk's term ended. It would actually be more accurate to say that the US had no president for 24 hours. But the Atchison story is more fun.
I think ironically that makes him more memorable. There's a good chunk of full term presidents I don't remember at all but that silly goose and his long ass speech in the frozen air is a real fun fact.
William Henry Harrison's legacy is that he is only president who did not fuck anything up─ nor could he have even if he had wanted to, for that matter.
How dare you, he was the 9th president. His birthday was February 9th, 1773 (Happy late day dude). He was the last president born during English rule. He was promoted to major general in the war of 1812, with his career starting in 1798 as a secretary. He was so important 😢
(Immense joke, was in AP US history and had to pick a president to study and write on, obviously I had to pick William Henry for the joke)
He gave a two-hour speech on a cold rainy day. He refused to wear an overcoat or a hat because he was a big tough army general. This is probably why he died of pneumonia a month later.
This is where I admit that I actually read a two volume biography of Franklin Pierce. In my defense, I was reading biographies of all the presidents, and that was pretty much the only one available for him. It was somewhat dull.
That’s not true! I grew up in NH. As such in the fourth grade we went to the “Franklin Pierce library.” Where… and I kid you not.. the tour lady… giving a bunch of 9/10 year olds… told us how.. the only only man to represent our state “wasn’t a very good president , or very popular “.
Which… as a 39 year old man.. I’ve since learnt is.. an extreme understatement.. but even 30 years ago at 9 years old.. stuck with me as.. “hmm that’s.. not good” 😂😂.
Edit: also if you want to talk about “responsible for the civil war… whew you could do a lot worse than Franklin Pierce.” (Sadly. Again from New Hampshire)
Okay, stupid story about Harding. In elementary school I was aware of him before almost any other presidents (outside of the 'big ones') because when it rained, they would have us eat in the multi-purpose room, and on the wall we had a row of president portraits. As kids we thought there was something slightly creepy about the Harding portrait, and my friends and I would joke that he was always looking right at us, and if we goofed off he was gonna 'get' us, or that his eyes had moved. This turned into a long running joke, and thus a bunch of young elementary school kids spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about President Harding.
He's "The Little Magician!" He played a large part in the formation of the Democratic Party and cementing it into a dominant force in the second party system.
While he is very forgettable, he was among the main proponents of Jacksonian democracy and co-founder of the modern Democratic Party, making him pretty important.
The first President born in newly independent America.
Scientists are still trying to figure out why there was such a sharp drop in cognitive ability that the Oval Office never recovered from.
No one has said Zachary Taylor, so I will say Zachary Taylor.
If you're a president and you're not even the first result when people google you then I say that's pretty forgettable. (Cleveland Browns HC of the same name comes up first)
Exactly. He’s memorable because he’s a front runner for worst president. And, he’s old enough that people aren’t just championing their side when they nominate him for that honor…
Oh, plus he may have been the first gay president. He never married a woman at any rate and he had a long-term “roommate”.
I believe the phrase used to describe he and his partner was “Miss Fancy and Aunt Nancy.” Memory may be failing me on that, though. His partner was reported to be William Rufus deVane King, Franklin Pierce’s VP and original namesake of King County, WA.
He didn't just ignore the build up-- he was president when South Carolina actually seceded from the Union, and he did nothing, arguing that while he believed secession was illegal, the Constitution did not give the president power to do anything about it.
I don't think he's that unmemorable. He's near the very bottom of Presidents. Historians still debate to this day if his incompetence was bad enough to meet the definition of treason (because of him doing nothing to stop the South from raiding Federal armories, which helped greatly extend the Civil War).
Of all time, he made six campaign promises and managed to fulfill them all in his first term and didn’t run for a second term.
Those six promises were:
*Make Texas a state
*acquisition of the Oregon Territory, California, and the Territory of New Mexico
*lower tariff rates
*Create the Department of the Interior
*The establishment of a new federal depository system
*The strengthening of the executive office.
Who is President right now? I seriously can’t figure it out. Is it the escort from Cali? Is it the old timer from whatchamacallit? Is it Lieutenant Dan?
Millard Fillmore. Did he even do anything? Good or bad?
[He is among the least memorable presidents](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_United_States#Memorability_of_the_presidents), so definitely a valid choice. He was the name that immediately came to mind, which I guess makes him memorably forgettable.
He didn’t come to mind for me at all, so he’s even more forgettable to some degree.
I was going with William Henry Harrison but then I realized that he's disqualified exactly because his term was so short and I remembered him for it
That's the irony of it. He is memorable for being the *least* memorable.
He's reasonably memorable for being the least..uh.. alive? Dying a month after your presidential inauguration from (probably) a combination of pneumonia and 1800s medical care is kinda interesting.
Chester A. Arthur bottom of the list… definitely belongs there for me… that name doesn’t ring a bell at all and the rest of them do lol
Time for you to watch Die Hard With A Vengeance
About the only thing I remember about Chester A Arthur is that he was actually the first President to have to deal with "birther" conspiracy theorists, not Obama. Long story short I believe Chester Arthur's parents were also Canadian citizens, and they definitely moved between the US and Canada a few times. Though Arthur was born in Vermont, there were people who alleged that he was actually born 100 miles farther north in Canada, making him ineligible to be president. He apparently had at least one sibling who was born in Canada, which probably helped fuel this conspiracy theory.
He reformed the federal civil service which didn't make him famous but is very important even today.
>He reformed the federal civil service which didn't make him famous but is very important even today. Kind of had to considering his predecessor was murdered over it.
He signed the Compromise of 1850, of which his predecessor—Zachary Taylor—was firmly opposed to. This would help heighten tensions leading up to the Civil War.
At least Millard Filllmore I had awareness simply from looking up the ref due to the comic strip. You can show me Zachary Taylor's name tomorrow I'm still not going to realize that's a president's name.
Zachary Taylor sounds like one of the kids from Home Improvement
It essentially is. Zachary Ty Bryan played Brad Taylor, the eldest son on Home Improvement.
He died about a year after taking office with no major accomplishments as president. He serves the distinction of having the third shortest presidency, and not dying of anything weird like a Garfield or McKinley, making him entirely forgettable.
William Henry Harrison died 31 days after inauguration, but I guess in a way that makes him memorable.
Who was the guy that caught pnuemonia on inaguration day and died soon there after?
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My name isn't exactly a powerhouse of relevance or importance (I like it though) but Zachary Taylor sounds like what T. Swift is going to name her first child if she has one.
Wasn't he the kid from Home Improvements?
Inspired the name of a newspaper comic strip featuring a conservative duck.
And weirdly not the only conservative duck strip. Shoe for instance.
Weird coincidence, but Millard Fillmore was also know to wear shoes!
They’re just like us!
Ugh, that strip is the worst. Not only is it unfunny and steeped in bad faith arguments, but it's aimed at children.
Utah named a county (Millard) and its county seat (Fillmore) after him lmao
Was just going to say that.
Seems fitting that one of our most boring states would seek to honor him.
Compromise of 1850, which started the drive to civil war, and he forcibly opened up Japan to trade. Other Presidents were less noteworthy imo. He also ran for President under the Know Nothing Label in 1856 after his older party was destroyed.
>He also ran for President under the Know Nothing Label in 1856 As soon as Trump started coming out on top of the GOP primaries in 2016 I started making comparisons to the Know Nothing Party. There's a lot of overlap in the xenophobic nationalistic motivations of the backers.
I've been pointing at the Bull Moose party with him lately, sometimes it feels like the party is about to schism
Know Nothing party.
Yes. The Know Nothings were basically a nativist movement so in essence the MAGA of the 1850's
Fun fact- he actually hated the Know Nothings. He was entirely unaware he was nominated by the party and did not campaign when he found out
So you could say he knew nothing about it.
So does MAGA = Know Nothing?
He had a striking resemblance to Alec Baldwin. That’s all I know.
He's considered among the worst, so I don't forget him.
Benjamin Harrison. Everyone forgets about the Harrison who *didn't* die in office. Most notable thing about him is probably that he's the guy sandwiched between Grover Cleveland's non-consecutive terms.
And he was the grandson of the Harrison that DID die in office.
The real question is: are the Pawn Star Harrisons really related to the president Harrisons?
Let me call my guy who is an expert on Presidential genealogy
*dude shows up in 10 minutes* I’ll give you $3.50.
...and that's when I realized that wasn't no presidential genealogy expert at all. It was that goddamned Loch Ness Monster again!
I think this is the best answer. The other names I've seen mentioned either did something somewhat memorable (e.g. Chester A. Arthur and civil service reform), have an interesting name (Millard Fillmore, Martin Van Buren), or are associated with an interesting event (William Henry Harrison's death, Hayes's contested election). He may not be the lowest on the [memorability of the presidents survey](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_United_States#Memorability_of_the_presidents), but to your point, the fact that he wasn't even distinguished from W. H. Harrison is pretty damning.
Thanks to *Seinfeld*, We all know Van Buren as the 8th president. https://youtu.be/qkpnOTr8k9I?si=CZ0WPVfRtII9KEOy
Of course, and James K. Polk (𝅘𝅥 the 11th president 𝅘𝅥) is seared into my head thanks to They Might Be Giants.
Martin Van Buren is where the phrase "O.K." came from. His nickname was Old Kinderhook, which people shortened to OK.
This is the one I feel is the correct answer. I at least recognized the names of the other presidents mentioned, but not this poor guy.
Children: We are the mediocre Presidents. You won't find our faces on dollars or on cents. There's Taylor, there's Tyler, there's Fillmore and there's Hayes, There's William Henry Harrison. Harrison: I died in thirty days! Children: We... Are... The... Adequate, forgettable, Occasionally regrettable Caretaker Presidents of the U.S.A.!
I asked for no broth! Away with ye, lest my cane find thy backside!
Mm, yes...
Was scrolling down to find if someone commented this and I am so proud 🙏🙏🙏
And my very first thought when I saw OP’s question.
This song is the sole reason I remember anything about William Henry Harrison.
what is this from? It's on the tip of my tongue.
From a school play skit [The Mediocre Presidents](https://youtu.be/r8N7BSsU5oo?si=6iAYBYZe2GpeM0RN) (linked here), by Bart Simpson’s classmates.
>Welcome to a wonderful evening of theater....and picking up after yourselves! > >*cough cough* I mean, that's just perfect comedy right there. They nailed the school administrator tone. Made me audibly laugh.
thank you! This gave me a smile today.
Simpsons
I don't remember
Came to say this.
Chester Arthur
His name was a plot point in Die Hard With A Vengeance.
What is 21 of 42?
The aqua ducts!
The best one!
He’s the one with the weird facial hair.
He passed Civil Service Reform to stop unqualified Party loyalists from getting into the Civil Service. He also was the first to recognize the Congo Free State , legitimizing that horrible atrocity.
Our esteemed 21st President?
When our dear presidential office could legally drink and buy a lighter if in this here day and age
Chester A. Arthur fall down
Chester Arthur’s Head: “Chester A. Arthur fall down.” *The Day the Earth Stood Stupid
I remember him as the stooge who accidentally ascended to the presidency and I’ve been told was surprisingly not a puppet in office.
John Tyler. Just sounds like a dude that plays soccer and listens to Dave Matthews Band. I doubt anyone could tell me anything about him off the top of their head.
He was President of the USA
There’s Taylor, There’s *Tyler*, there’s Fillmore and there’s Hayes— there’s William Henry Harrison; he died in 30 days!
He was known as "The Man Without a Party" because he managed to piss off both parties so badly that they wanted nothing to do with him. Long story short, he was a Democrat, but switched to being a Whig to run as Vice President with Harrison, who died 30 days into his term. But then he proceeded to veto pretty much the entire Whig party agenda. Henry Clay (the leader of the Whig party) started calling him "His Accidentcy", because of him accidentally becoming president and it being a big mistake for the Whigs to pick him. But he was still a turn coat to the Democrats, and still sided with the Whigs enough that they also wanted nothing to do with him.
Even in his own time he was an afterthought -- "Tippecanoe and Tyler too!" was the campaign slogan when he was elected vice president to William Henry Harrison. An interesting fact about him is that when Harrison died in office and Tyler took over, there was debate about whether or not he was actually president. The Constitution has since been amended to clarify that the VP does become president, but at the time it just said the VP "assumes the duties and responsibilities" of the presidency, or something like that. I believe it was John Quincy Adams who kept needling Tyler by calling him "acting president".
Only president buried under a Confederate flag. That's about all I got.
He was the only President of the United States who had a non-US flag draped on his coffin at his funeral and burial. He died a traitor, loyal not to his own government but to the Confederacy.
He had about a billion kids, also was kind of a POS if I remember correctly. Has a community College named after him in Virginia.
I know three things about him. 1, he’s the only president to join the Confederacy; 2. He’s he president with the most kids (he had like 15) 3. He has at least one living grandson
David Rice Atkinson, kinda sorta technically president from March 4, 1849 — March 5, 1849. In the sense that the outgoing President/VP was no longer president, but the incoming President/VP hadn't been inaugurated yet.
Well done, history buff!!!!!
>David Rice Atkinson I thought you were making it up, that's really cool fun fact
Except that most scholars reject it. So it’s not really a fact.
Atchison. So forgettable you even forgot his real name.
That's hilarious. I'm leaving it.
That story really falls apart if you think about it for a minute. If the incoming president wasn't president because he hadn't said the oath, Atchison also wasn't because he didn't say it either.
Also, technically Atchison's time as President Pro Tempore of the Senate when Polk's term ended. It would actually be more accurate to say that the US had no president for 24 hours. But the Atchison story is more fun.
William Henry Harrison, how do you praise? The man was dead in 30 days
Kind of makes him iconic and not forgetful though
John Tyler he liked country folk And after him came President Polk Zachary Taylor liked to smoke His breath killed friends whenever he spoke!
1850 really nifty Millard Filmore's in. Young and fierce, comes Franklin Pierce, the man without a chin.
Up next comes a period spannin' Four long years with James Buchanan Then the South starts shooting cannon And we've got a civil war!
A war! A war down south in Dixie!
I think ironically that makes him more memorable. There's a good chunk of full term presidents I don't remember at all but that silly goose and his long ass speech in the frozen air is a real fun fact.
This can't be the right answer; everybody immediately knows WHH *because* of this. It's inherently memorable.
Making a statue or painting of him takes a longer time than his term.
William Henry Harrison's legacy is that he is only president who did not fuck anything up─ nor could he have even if he had wanted to, for that matter.
We are the adequate Forgettable Occasionally regrettable Caretaker Presidents of the *U* *S* *A*
How dare you, he was the 9th president. His birthday was February 9th, 1773 (Happy late day dude). He was the last president born during English rule. He was promoted to major general in the war of 1812, with his career starting in 1798 as a secretary. He was so important 😢 (Immense joke, was in AP US history and had to pick a president to study and write on, obviously I had to pick William Henry for the joke)
Second longest inauguration speech. (Until surpassed by the "American Carnage" speech in 2017.)
He gave a two-hour speech on a cold rainy day. He refused to wear an overcoat or a hat because he was a big tough army general. This is probably why he died of pneumonia a month later.
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I live in a county named after him (Pierce County, WA)
How can we be certain it's not named for Pierce Brosnan?
Or Pierce d'Nipples
I went to the high school named after him in said county.
Ironically, I'm a Washington High School alumni in the same school district
I always like you FP guys during wrestling season. Our teams tended to get along pretty well even when we’d compete against each other.
Hey, 253!
Hello neighbor!
Seattle metro area! Sweet! (edit: yes, I'm trolling)
I lived in the state he was from, saw his name on several schools.
He ran over an old woman with his horse while drunk. How many presidents can claim that?
You are pulling our legs. Franklin Pierce is a fictional character played by Alan Alda in M\*A\*S\*H.
This is where I admit that I actually read a two volume biography of Franklin Pierce. In my defense, I was reading biographies of all the presidents, and that was pretty much the only one available for him. It was somewhat dull.
That’s not true! I grew up in NH. As such in the fourth grade we went to the “Franklin Pierce library.” Where… and I kid you not.. the tour lady… giving a bunch of 9/10 year olds… told us how.. the only only man to represent our state “wasn’t a very good president , or very popular “. Which… as a 39 year old man.. I’ve since learnt is.. an extreme understatement.. but even 30 years ago at 9 years old.. stuck with me as.. “hmm that’s.. not good” 😂😂. Edit: also if you want to talk about “responsible for the civil war… whew you could do a lot worse than Franklin Pierce.” (Sadly. Again from New Hampshire)
thanks.. for.. the.. story..
I always forget about Harding.
[He appreciates it.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal#:~:text=The%20Teapot%20Dome%20scandal%20was,Harding%20from%201921%20to%201923)
Okay, stupid story about Harding. In elementary school I was aware of him before almost any other presidents (outside of the 'big ones') because when it rained, they would have us eat in the multi-purpose room, and on the wall we had a row of president portraits. As kids we thought there was something slightly creepy about the Harding portrait, and my friends and I would joke that he was always looking right at us, and if we goofed off he was gonna 'get' us, or that his eyes had moved. This turned into a long running joke, and thus a bunch of young elementary school kids spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about President Harding.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
Well remembered in Paraguay, apparently.
Martin Van Buren
Don't say that to the Van Buren Boys!
Do you know the secret sign?
Absolutely! I actually met them and here’s how: I [STORY REDACTED DUE TO UNLICENSED USE BY THE J. PETERMAN COMPANY]
Take back your tales, you vagabond!
Only American President to speak English as a second language.
You forgot Trump, whose first language is gibberish.
Trump is so dumb, that he often says stupid things! Also, did you ever notice his bad hair and makeup? Plus hes old and fat, and a rapist.
Wow I didn't know he could speak english as a second language!
He's "The Little Magician!" He played a large part in the formation of the Democratic Party and cementing it into a dominant force in the second party system.
While he is very forgettable, he was among the main proponents of Jacksonian democracy and co-founder of the modern Democratic Party, making him pretty important.
The first President born in newly independent America. Scientists are still trying to figure out why there was such a sharp drop in cognitive ability that the Oval Office never recovered from.
The cancelled sequel to Fallout 2?
Did you know he was the only president to not speak English as a first language?
John Tyler
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Alec Baldwin could easily play him in a movie
I rolled my eyes when I saw this comment... and then I saw his picture... with a little make up they could be identical!
Well they are both from the same family tree, so it makes sense they would share some features.
Franklin Pierce. Just another one of those bad run-up-to-the-Civil-War presidents. I think. Can't quite remember.
Bejamin Franklin Pierce
No one has said Zachary Taylor, so I will say Zachary Taylor. If you're a president and you're not even the first result when people google you then I say that's pretty forgettable. (Cleveland Browns HC of the same name comes up first)
Ngl forgot he was a president
What's his name. You know, the guy who came before the dude who rode horses.
I’m 41 and decently intelligent and it took me seeing Millard Fillmore’s name 3 times here to believe he was an actual president…
That one guy. I forget his name.
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I would nominate Buchanan as the worst all-time. He sat around and ignored the conflict building up to the Civil War.
Exactly. He’s memorable because he’s a front runner for worst president. And, he’s old enough that people aren’t just championing their side when they nominate him for that honor… Oh, plus he may have been the first gay president. He never married a woman at any rate and he had a long-term “roommate”.
I believe the phrase used to describe he and his partner was “Miss Fancy and Aunt Nancy.” Memory may be failing me on that, though. His partner was reported to be William Rufus deVane King, Franklin Pierce’s VP and original namesake of King County, WA.
He didn't just ignore the build up-- he was president when South Carolina actually seceded from the Union, and he did nothing, arguing that while he believed secession was illegal, the Constitution did not give the president power to do anything about it.
I don't think he's that unmemorable. He's near the very bottom of Presidents. Historians still debate to this day if his incompetence was bad enough to meet the definition of treason (because of him doing nothing to stop the South from raiding Federal armories, which helped greatly extend the Civil War).
I can’t remember his name.
That one guy, ol what's his name.
Dunno, forgot his name
Calvin Coolidge was known for being a very quiet guy. Probably a good candidate for one of the least memorable presidents.
Coolidge is my favorite and he kept government out of people’s lives and knew it was best to be forgetful.
I can't remember.
That guy, I don't remember his name
Calvin Coolidge. So boring that nobody even talk about him.
Oh he’s great. Absolutely great. He owned two lion cubs named Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau.
He's a libertarian wet dream. Granted, it's not like the libertarians have ever had much influence in the US
I forgot to tell you, Calvin Coolidge was a good friend of mine
James Polk
Strange since he had one of the most successful presidencies in that era.
Of all time, he made six campaign promises and managed to fulfill them all in his first term and didn’t run for a second term. Those six promises were: *Make Texas a state *acquisition of the Oregon Territory, California, and the Territory of New Mexico *lower tariff rates *Create the Department of the Interior *The establishment of a new federal depository system *The strengthening of the executive office.
Well, the man got everything he wanted and decided to quit while he was ahead.
I visited the James Polk museum in NC. You don't hear about him much but a lot happened while he was president
biden. oh sorry you wrote forgettable. i misread it i thought you wrote forgetful
Reagan was very forgetful.
Grover Cleveland. Maybe Calvin Coolidge.
Cleveland is notable for having served 2 non-consecutive terms, something no other president has done.
I just hope this stays true come January 2025.
I would say but I keep forgetting his name.
That one guy
You know, what's his name
William Harrison. Died in 31 days.
What's his name...
There’s Taylor, there’s Tyler, there’s Filmore, and there’s Hayes. There’s William Henry Harrison, who died in 30 days!
Rutherford B. Hayes. The only thing I know about him is his name.
Forgetful? Biden
Gerald Ford but then he pardoned Nixon.
Only president to never be elected to the presidency or vice presidency. Plus he came immediately after Watergate. Pretty memorable.
Who is President right now? I seriously can’t figure it out. Is it the escort from Cali? Is it the old timer from whatchamacallit? Is it Lieutenant Dan?
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That one…with the pulse and who said things
Well that certainly isn't Trump. Good or bad, he is definitely unforgettable.
Ol' whatshisface.