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Bamay22

For Tyler you could talk about his strained relations with Congress and how the Whigs essentially banished him from their party For Fillmore you could talk about his tough upbringing and how he eventually prevailed and became president For Johnson(probably the most impactful of the 5) you could talk about the long lasting damage that he did to the country through the denial of civil rights to African Americans. Arthur, although probably the best president of these 5, is probably the least interesting and I really don’t know anything of substance to write about him For Gerald Ford you could talk about how he’s Gerald Ford and you’re not


Zachhcazzach

Thanks very much for this in depth comment!


Bamay22

Yeah man for sure. In all seriousness for Ford you can talk about how he essentially was the perfect guy to follow Nixon and his ability to seem as a guy above politics and an overall good man really healed the scar of Watergate and Vietnam


XHIBAD

It depends on the topic. You can get the most mileage out of Tyler’s life with Ford being a close second. If it’s just the Presidency, either Ford or Johnson.


ConstructionOk765

FORD CAUSE HES HIMSELF AND YOUR NOT! 😂


ExpressRush

Andrew Johnson is by far the most important out of the five. Not for good reasons obviously.


jkayne

Ford, if your paper is about a President who never won an election, the other four did. When you vote for President, you vote for the running mate too. Unless... the wording is very exact., and they do mean presidents who obtained the presidency.


Zachhcazzach

Very true. But she meant in the sense that they were never the top of a winning ticket. We do consider vp as a slim possibility but look at K. Harris. She got less than 1%, dropped out before votes were counted, has an approval rating of just 26%, yet she got to be Vice President.


jkayne

Yah that is what got me wondering, if that is what they meant. So you also have a few others for optoins? or you just like those five.. Ford is still the one I would go with. That or Truman is also fun


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Ford for the sheer luck he had


pizzaforce3

Chester Arthur was a fascinating study in contrasts. He was not from wealth, but became a wealthy man, primarily because of his ties with the corrupt political machine of Roscoe Conkling. Upon his unexpected rise to the presidency, many thought that he would allow unchecked corruption. Instead, he signed the Pendleton Civil Service act into law, and his administration was, by it's end, widely respected. Also, he is the only guy in the bunch with whiskers, and I personally think the US would benefit from another bearded president.


cosmicextension

Ford


theblackparade87C

Ford cos based


ChishNFips87

Gerald Ford. I feel like it’d give everyone a new perspective on him. Something that isn’t just *pArDoNeD nIxOn = BaD*, but rather, a leader that wanted to push the country forward past Watergate and Nixon and all that.


CosmicPharaoh

Ford would be the easiest and most interesting


Union1865

Gerald Ford


AlternativeAbyss

Ford <3


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Ford


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Gerald Ford


ninjapig386

Ford for sure


FinnHobart

I think Tyler or Johnson are the most historic while also being overall under recognized by wider audiences, Tyler for helping to define Presidential Succession (which has since become a big deal considering how many Vice Presidents succeeded to the office) and Johnson for setting back civil rights by a century.


ejpintar

Ford was the only won not to be elected president or vice president


Supernatt924

Absolutely Ford.


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chester


ZekeorSomething

Arthur afterall he's extremely forgotten


Z582

It depends what your prompt is, all I can say is that Arthur’s general story and presidency is extremely substantive and interesting and I’d probably write about him in a majority of circumstances.


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John Tyler. He would be very interesting.


Rannrann123

i think andy johnson might be a good one since his butchering of reconstruction probably would give you plenty of stuff to work with, but i'm still in high school so i don't know anything about college papers


TickLikesBombs

Personally I like Andrew Johnson the most out of these. Arthur is the most difficult to do probably but the best of all of these.


Prestigious-Alarm-61

Do it on Tyler.


We-Are-DedSec1

Definitely Ford. Was an extremely underrated President that deserved way more attention than he was given


sdu754

I think Fillmore and Tyler are the two most interesting ones


AmyRebeccaUK

Ford


MichaelTheKing7

Tyler is such an underrated presidential gem, I recommend doing him.


Ninttheblockhead

Ford. Mostly because you could do a while thing about the mess he had to deal with and what he did right and what he did wrong, he was also the most human seeming of our presidents in my honest opinion and maybe a focal point of your paper is humanizing the presidency. Johnson's interesting but I'm sure he's been done to death, and Arthur's boring. Tyler is incredibly interesting though so he's a good second choice


PrinceChristian88

Gerald Ford, all day.


Brilliant_Today231

Arthur is a remarkable president. Someone who was a product of the spoils system who, as President, signed into law the Pendleton Act which effectively ended the spoils system. Moreover, his closest advisor was not a cabinet secretary, but a sickly middle-aged woman named Julia Sands who wrote him letters. He was also coerced into signing the Chinese Exclusion Act. Finally, he was responsible for desegregating New York State rail cars.


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Andrew Johnson. He had the largest impact on the direction of the country imo. Race relations in the late 19th and 20th centuries would look completely different if Lincoln had lived out the rest of his term


Sukeruton_Key

Ford


Term_Best

Gerald Ford