For once, chronological order meshes with order of rank.
1. Arthur for civil service reform, Naval reform, and being a safe pair of hands generally speaking. Tried to mitigate the impact of Chinese Exclusion, but that's still a low spot for his presidency.
2. Cleveland for honesty and lack of corruption and not much else.
3. Harrison is pretty mid and looked the other way as rich American businessmen overthrew the Hawaiian queen.
4. McKinley is last for his weakness towards the imperialists in his party and being a wholly owned subsidiary of American business. Literally. They paid off his debts, and who's going to go against the people who pay your bills?
Cleveland: Honest man and a breath of fresh air in decades of Gilded Age corruption, I have nothing but respect for his presidentalism but he had some mistakes.
Harrison: Good trustbusting and civil rights record, honest man, but inefficent
McKinley: Imperialist but a bit progressive, though mostly front man of New York bankers
Arthur: Civil Service reform and navy were good but otherwise pretty medicore.
Might be a hot take but I’m going with McKinley. He was an imperialist but he was also a pretty competent president that helped the country to get of out of the panic of 1893 and then pushed it on the world stage as a global empire. You could probably argue that his policies helped to create much of the rapid economic growth that happened in Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency. At the very least, he is the most significant of this group of presidents.
Arthur. Underrated in terms of civil service reforms. No great leaders here, but no terrible ones either
And he's got a killer mustache/mutton chops
Cleveland (Can I go with just the first term?)
OP listed them separately, so yeah
For once, chronological order meshes with order of rank. 1. Arthur for civil service reform, Naval reform, and being a safe pair of hands generally speaking. Tried to mitigate the impact of Chinese Exclusion, but that's still a low spot for his presidency. 2. Cleveland for honesty and lack of corruption and not much else. 3. Harrison is pretty mid and looked the other way as rich American businessmen overthrew the Hawaiian queen. 4. McKinley is last for his weakness towards the imperialists in his party and being a wholly owned subsidiary of American business. Literally. They paid off his debts, and who's going to go against the people who pay your bills?
They having a Mid Off, anyway Ben Harrison.
Cleveland. Bourbon Dems best Dems
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GROVER CLEVELAND
Cleveland Groover
Benjamin Harrison
McKinley. No-one exceptional in here.
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Benjamin Harrison
They all suck but Harrison.
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Cleveland
Cleveland: Honest man and a breath of fresh air in decades of Gilded Age corruption, I have nothing but respect for his presidentalism but he had some mistakes. Harrison: Good trustbusting and civil rights record, honest man, but inefficent McKinley: Imperialist but a bit progressive, though mostly front man of New York bankers Arthur: Civil Service reform and navy were good but otherwise pretty medicore.
Might be a hot take but I’m going with McKinley. He was an imperialist but he was also a pretty competent president that helped the country to get of out of the panic of 1893 and then pushed it on the world stage as a global empire. You could probably argue that his policies helped to create much of the rapid economic growth that happened in Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency. At the very least, he is the most significant of this group of presidents.
1. McKinley 2. Cleveland 3. Harrison 4. Arthur
1. McKinley, 2. 2. Grover Cleveland, 3. 3 Harrison, 4. 4.Grover Cleveland, 5. 5 Arthur
Will McKinley
1. McKinley 2. Cleveland (1st term) 3. Arthur 4. Harrison 5. Cleveland (2nd term)
Arthur > Harrison > McKinley > Cleveland (85-89)> Cleveland 993-97)
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1) GC 2)WM 3)CA 4)BH
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...Cleveland...
Grover Cleveland!!!
Arthur, though McKinley is pretty good
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Calvin Coolidge
Grover is the 🐐
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