Which US president had the best nickname?
Some were earned by soldiers, some were insults that stuck, and one is just three letters.
1Andrew Jackson
'Old Hickory', from troops who decided their general was as hard to break as the wood.
1000pts
2Calvin Coolidge
'Silent Cal', for a man who treated conversation as a resource to be conserved.
835pts
3Abraham Lincoln
'Honest Abe', earned as a country lawyer long before it became campaign material.
762pts
4Rutherford B. Hayes
'His Fraudulency', pinned on him by opponents after the disputed 1876 election.
734pts
5Dwight D. Eisenhower
'Ike', short enough to fit on a button — 'I Like Ike' did the rest.
734pts
6Martin Van Buren
'The Little Magician', for a political operator who was five foot six.
571pts
7Thomas Jefferson
'The Sage of Monticello', the title he got once he stopped governing and started building.
571pts
8Ulysses S. Grant
'Unconditional Surrender Grant', a pun on his initials and his terms at Fort Donelson.
571pts
9Zachary Taylor
'Old Rough and Ready', a general who campaigned in a straw hat and no uniform.
467pts
10Theodore Roosevelt
'Teddy' — a nickname he disliked that ended up on a stuffed bear in every nursery.
467pts
11Ronald Reagan
'The Great Communicator', a nickname earned on television rather than a battlefield.
467pts
12James K. Polk
'Young Hickory', the protégé who kept every promise he made in one term.
343pts
13William Henry Harrison
'Old Tippecanoe', from the 1811 battle that gave America its first campaign jingle.
343pts
14Franklin D. Roosevelt
'FDR' — the first president known to the country by three letters.
343pts
15George Washington
'The Father of His Country' — the only presidential nickname that reads like a job title.
190pts
16Grover Cleveland
'The Veto President', for rejecting more bills than his twenty-one predecessors combined.
190pts
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