Which US president had the best nickname?

By YPB Team

Some were earned by soldiers, some were insults that stuck, and one is just three letters.

Andrew Jackson — ranked #11
Andrew Jackson
'Old Hickory', from troops who decided their general was as hard to break as the wood.
1000pts
Calvin Coolidge — ranked #22
Calvin Coolidge
'Silent Cal', for a man who treated conversation as a resource to be conserved.
835pts
Abraham Lincoln — ranked #33
Abraham Lincoln
'Honest Abe', earned as a country lawyer long before it became campaign material.
762pts
Rutherford B. Hayes — ranked #44
Rutherford B. Hayes
'His Fraudulency', pinned on him by opponents after the disputed 1876 election.
734pts
Dwight D. Eisenhower — ranked #55
Dwight D. Eisenhower
'Ike', short enough to fit on a button — 'I Like Ike' did the rest.
734pts
Martin Van Buren — ranked #66
Martin Van Buren
'The Little Magician', for a political operator who was five foot six.
571pts
Thomas Jefferson — ranked #77
Thomas Jefferson
'The Sage of Monticello', the title he got once he stopped governing and started building.
571pts
Ulysses S. Grant — ranked #88
Ulysses S. Grant
'Unconditional Surrender Grant', a pun on his initials and his terms at Fort Donelson.
571pts
Zachary Taylor — ranked #99
Zachary Taylor
'Old Rough and Ready', a general who campaigned in a straw hat and no uniform.
467pts
Theodore Roosevelt — ranked #1010
Theodore Roosevelt
'Teddy' — a nickname he disliked that ended up on a stuffed bear in every nursery.
467pts
Ronald Reagan — ranked #1111
Ronald Reagan
'The Great Communicator', a nickname earned on television rather than a battlefield.
467pts
James K. Polk — ranked #1212
James K. Polk
'Young Hickory', the protégé who kept every promise he made in one term.
343pts
William Henry Harrison — ranked #1313
William Henry Harrison
'Old Tippecanoe', from the 1811 battle that gave America its first campaign jingle.
343pts
Franklin D. Roosevelt — ranked #1414
Franklin D. Roosevelt
'FDR' — the first president known to the country by three letters.
343pts
George Washington — ranked #1515
George Washington
'The Father of His Country' — the only presidential nickname that reads like a job title.
190pts
Grover Cleveland — ranked #1616
Grover Cleveland
'The Veto President', for rejecting more bills than his twenty-one predecessors combined.
190pts

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