Ever since the development of the Constitution in 1787, America has had many U.S. presidents come into office. America has had 43 presidents and I think that the top five are Lincoln, Washington, Teddy Roosevelt, Truman, and Jefferson. However, the United States has not experienced a good president for every term. There has been some bad presidents including Buchanan, Coolidge, and Grant. When ranking the presidents one must ask themselves "What makes a president good?" The …showed first 75 words of 2083 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2083 total…no one could do such a good job of being chief executive as they did. The presidents that I ranked on the bottom weren't necessarily bad people. They just were unfit to be presidents seeing that the task was way too difficult for them. But even these "bad presidents" have set examples for future presidents by showing to the world what types of governmental policies do not work so they will not be practiced again.