Top 10 Most Consequential Presidents of the United States
Who do you guys think was the most consequential president of the United States? If you don't know what "consequential" means, I'm sure there's some definitions online waiting to tell you.I put it in some presidents I believe are pretty consequential as a start (11/26/2016) but you voters will decide and move presidents all around the list!
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He was the first African-American president of the United States.
A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004. Made may important changes and improvements. Was able to revitalize the economy after Bush left us with a recession. Provided universal health care and although not perfect, was a start. Spoke eloquently and with measured intelligence and maturity unlike the intellectually feckless and bereft moron now occupying the White House!
His "Iran Nuclear Deal" was the worst thing any president has ever done, even exceeding Johnson's totally faked "Gulf of Tonkin Incident", which plunged us fully into the Viet Nam war. We will be lucky if it does not end the world.
He brought in a Health Care plan that no other President could do and made a deal that possibly averted a war with Iran that could have brought World War 3 and opened the nation to Cuba.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 to 1945. A Democrat, he won a record four presidential elections and dominated his party for many years as a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression... read more Yes. The "consequences" were socialist policies which extended the Great Depression eight years longer than the rest of the industrialized world, and a huge, intrusive bureaucracy we still haven't brought to heel.
Pushed America hugely toward socialism.
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American businessman, television personality, politician, and the 45th President of the United States. Born and raised in Queens, New York City, Donald J. Trump received an economics degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. In 1971, Donald Trump took charge of his family's real estate and construction firm, Elizabeth Trump... read more I love how his first term is just finishing up and morons like CobaltCards interrogate the guy with nothing to back their case. (Thanks for commenting while logged in, by the way.) What was this little in a short amount of time? Face it: You’re just a sore loser. He’s been negotiating to bring back jobs since he was President Elect, by the way. And what were Obama and Clinton’s solutions to North Korea again? One gave them nukes, the other, I legitimately forgot.
He hasn't been president for even a month and he's already rather consequential. He's done a lot in a short amount of time.
First president to actually talk to North Korea. Other presidents failed miserably on talks with North Korea.
George Washington (February 22, 1732– December 14, 1799) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Continental Congress as commander of the Continental Army, Washington led the Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War and served as the president of the Constitutional... read more
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War and succeeded in preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, bolstering the federal government, and modernizing the U.S. economy... read more
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29th, 1917 - November 22, 1963) commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination. The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the establishment of the Peace Corps, developments in the Space Race, the building of the Berlin... read more
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and author who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. In 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Carter Center. The only way in which Carter was consequential was in his spinelessness and gross incompetence, which led directly to American hostages being held by Iran for 444 days, which (aside from Carter's tanking the economy) of course led to the landslide election of Ronald Reagan and the immediate release of those hostages. Getting Ronaldus Maximus elected was Carter's best and only accomplishment. Thanks, Jimmuh. Finally did something right.
Ulysses S. Grant was an American soldier and statesman who served as Commanding General of the Army and the 18th President of the United States, the highest positions in the military and the government of the United States. Drunken genocidal slug.
Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father who was principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and served as the 3rd President of the United States from 1801-1809. He was born on April 13, 1743, and died on July 4, 1826, on the same day 2nd United States President John Adams died.
George Walker Bush is an American politician and businessman who was born in July 6, 1946. He served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. He is the eldest son of Barbara and George H. W.
Andrew Jackson was an American statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837 . He was born near the end of the colonial era, somewhere near the then-unmarked border between North and South Carolina, into a recently immigrated Scots-Irish farming family of relatively modest means.
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. Born in Staunton, Virginia, he spent his early years in Augusta, Georgia and Columbia, South Carolina.
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was an American politician and general who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe.
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States, an American politician of the Democratic Party. He brought in the Truman doctrine that attempted to contain communism and launched NATO.
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Kennedy may technically be the one who sent the first US forces to Viet Nam, but Johnson fabricated the Gulf of Tonkin Incident in order to justify major escalation under his watch.
Theodore Roosevelt was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. As a leader of the Republican Party during this time, he became a driving force for the Progressive Era in the United States in the early 20th century.
Stephen Grover Cleveland was an American politician and lawyer who was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, the only president in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office.