We are the Mediocre Presidents, you won't find our faces on dollars...

[CanuckAmok]

or on cents...

(sing it, DU!)

[LSdemocrat]

1. There's Taylor and Tyler, there's Fillmore and there's Hayes

[CanuckAmok]

2. There's William Henry Harrison (I died in thirty days!)

[Dhalgren]

4. That's Tippacanoe, oh and Adams times two!

[elperromagico]

10. WE ARE THE adequate, forgettable,

occasionally regrettable Caretaker Presidents of the U... S... A!!!

[Jack Rabbit]

3. Mount Rushless

Portraits of Fillmore, Hayes, Taft and Coolidge from the website of the White House

[hfojvt]

5. hey, I happen to be related to Taft

maybe I should google his history.

[CanuckAmok]

6. From what I hear about Taft...

...there's reason to believe many, many Americans are his descendents.

[hfojvt]

11. not that way

only that we are both descended from Thomas Holbrook (born 1627).
I do not find all that much bad about Taft at the following two sites, only that he was a lawyer who did not care much for politics.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/wt27.html

http://www.sparknotes.com/testprep/books/sat2/history/chapter14section3.rhtml

"Additional reform under Taft centered on two amendments to the Constitution, both ratified after he exited office. In 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment granted Congress the authority to tax income. After the amendment passed, Congress quickly established a graduated income tax with a maximum tax rate of 7 percent. The Seventeenth Amendment, also ratified in 1913, provided for direct election of U.S. senators by the people rather than their selection by state legislatures. This amendment was one part of a general movement for government reform, under which the public took an increasingly powerful and direct role in electing officials."

[elperromagico]

12. He actually did more to fight trusts in his four years

than TR did in his 7+ years. But he was too conservative for TR's tastes...

[Jack Rabbit]

7. Then there are those who will wish they had a mediocre reputation

Portraits of Nixon and Reagan from the website of the White House
Bush the Frat Boy from http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/BushGeorgeW/
Dick Cheney from CNN

[maveric]

8. Franklin Pierce the only prez from NH. A raging alcoholic!

Lame duck from day one.

[Tom Kitten]

9. We're Hoover and Harding, McKinley and Grant!

wait a minute...somethings wrong here... Grant on the 50$ ?

[hfojvt]

13. Grant and Hayes are also relatives of mine

since I am supposedly descended from John Grant (born 1573). When I did a search, I did not find very much bad about Hayes. Grant had a corrupt administration, but not because he knew about it, and I have read that he was a brilliant general. Then again, in any biography, you never know how much is bs and how much is truth.
I was a little bit non-plussed to find out I was related to Grant, because I was barn in the South (Carolina) and raised in the South (Dakota) so I really was fonder of Lee and Stonewall and the Swamp Fox.

[Tom Kitten]

14. interesting....

I am also supposed to be related to Grant, but on my mom's side and her family basically just hung out in SE Massachusetts until we moved west 40 years ago...A great aunt did the geneology, we had three families that came over on the Mayflower...I do not know of the connection with Grant, who indeed was a great General but not the best of Presidents...

[carpetbagger]

20. McKinley was on the $500 bill.

They don't make them any more.

[Historic NY]

15. Jerry Ford....he was an unelected standin.........humm reminds me of *

[Jack Rabbit]

24. Jerry Ford came to be President through a constitutional process

He was the first to be appointed Vice President under the provisions of the 25th Amendment, which was proposed in 1965 and ratified in 1967. In part, it addressed the problem of what might happen if the president were incapacitated but not dead; there was no provision in the Constitution for that eventuality up to then. It also addressed presidential succession. As most know, the line of succession after the Vice President is the Speaker of the House, the Senate President Pro Tem and the Secretary of State. At the time President Kennedy died, the Speaker, John McCormack, was a man in his seventies who did not himself believe he had the energies required of a Cold War president and the Senate President Pro Tem, Carl Hayden, was (no kidding) over 90.

The first time a vacancy in the Vice Presidency arose was when Spiro Agnew resigned in the face of corruption charges. The process worked.

That does not compare to the coup d'etat of 2000. That was a case of electoral fraud committed by Florida state officials and judicial manipulation capped by an intellectually dishonest, politically partisan supreme court opinion. In this case, the system broke down.

[njdemocrat106]

16. Nobody's mentioned Chester Arthur yet!

He always seems to get the cold shoulder.

[CanuckAmok]

17. You're next, Chester A. Arthur!

Unhand me, Yankee!

[njdemocrat106]

18. There's ol' Chet!

As Stevie Wonder sang, "You Haven't Done Nothing!" (actually, I think that song was directed at Nixon).

[CubsFan1982]

19. The policies we want -- The muttonchops we need.

[MisterP]

22. vulcanized maxilla, you mean

sorry, that's Cleveland

[martymar64]

21. James Buchanan

He fiddled while the country hurdled towards civil war.

[Hardrada]

23. Grover Cleveland (No relation)

Ma, ma, where's my Pa.
Gone to the White House, ha ha ha!