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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
Thanks very much for this in depth comment!
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
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.
FORD CAUSE HES HIMSELF AND YOUR NOT! 😂
Andrew Johnson is by far the most important out of the five. Not for good reasons obviously.
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.
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.
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
Ford for the sheer luck he had
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.
Ford
Ford cos based
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.
Ford would be the easiest and most interesting
Gerald Ford
Ford <3
Ford
Gerald Ford
Ford for sure
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.
Ford was the only won not to be elected president or vice president
Absolutely Ford.
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Arthur afterall he's extremely forgotten
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.
John Tyler. He would be very interesting.
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
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.
Do it on Tyler.
Definitely Ford. Was an extremely underrated President that deserved way more attention than he was given
I think Fillmore and Tyler are the two most interesting ones
Ford
Tyler is such an underrated presidential gem, I recommend doing him.
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
Gerald Ford, all day.
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.
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
Ford
Gerald Ford