The Top 11 Worst US Presidents of All Time Are Not At All Who You Think!

George W. Bush's administration began with one of the closest elections in US history; including a historic and arguably unconstitutional decision by The Supreme Court. While he helped navigate the nation through horrors of 9/11, his military response to that attack has caused a litany of consequences both foreign and domestic, including invading Iraq under false pretenses and causing a power vacuum that destabilized the region, creating the quagmire that is Dagesh (ISIS). He also continued a policy of deregulation started by President Reagan which ultimately lead to the Financial Crisis of 2007. All in all, no one really misses Bush.

Richard Nixon was a fantastic political strategist. He opened up China, reached arms-limitation agreements with the USSR, founded the EPA and made strides in crime-fighting. Nixon would be remembered much more favorably by history, if not for his greatest blunder: Watergate. The Democratic National Headquarters was broken into by members of his administration, and he not only lied about it, but actively obstructed the investigation itself, ultimately leading to the only time in US history a President has resigned from office.

Herbert Hoover was elected to office just before the pitfall that was the Great Depression. Hoover was a man of his time, even serving as Secretary of Commerce under two of his predecessors. However, the economics of his day, the principles he championed, completely failed to handle the realities that the Great Depression raised. He even went so far as to sign into law a tariff that started an international trade war that worsened the entire economic situation on a global scale. There's no wonder that the shantytowns of the 30s were called "Hoovervilles."

The Civil War hero was famous for his military strategies, but infamous for his presidential administration. Grant's presidency is synonymous with corruption. While history is starting to look more favorably on Grant for his fight for civil rights in the South and his opposition to the Ku Klux Klan; the sheer scope and depth of the corruption present under his watch unmistakably associated him with one of the worst scandals in United States presidential history.

John Tyler was a staunch states' rights advocate and a defender of slavery. Not surprising for a man born into the southern planter aristocracy. His political career started as a Jeffersonian Republican and for a time was in league with Andrew Jackson. He ran as the Vice-President to William Henry Harrison on the Whig ticket, and succeeded him when he passed away 30 days into his administration. Tyler is known for abandoning his party's principles and bringing back practices that harkened back to the Jacksonian era.

Millard Fillmore is another Vice-President who inherited the Oval Office after the death of a War Hero President. Fillmore became famous for his support of the Compromise of 1850, which instituted the Fugitive Slave Law, and temporarily postponed the outbreak of the Civil War. That might sound like a good thing, but in reality, he kicked the can down the road and instituted harsh policies that basically ignored the laws and rights of any state any person was in, at any given time. Ultimately, this was an unconscionable compromise that achieved little and postponed the inevitable.

Another pre-Civil War compromiser who proceeded to kick the nation's problems down the road. He is famous for supporting the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854, which undid the Missouri Compromise of 1820, allowing states to choose whether they should have slavery by popular vote, no matter where in the country they are. He also had plans to forcibly annex Cuba and make it a slave state, but it didn't pan out. Pierce was an expansionist in the Jacksonian tradition, wanting to create as many new states as possible, free or slave.

While at first, Johnson seemed like a good politician with a good track record, his presidential administration was fraught with discord and political ineptitude. After Lincoln's assassination, Johnson became the commander-in-chief and showed his true colors as a southerner, despite being the only southern senator to maintain his seat in Congress after southern secession. He was not an abolitionist, and essentially lobotomized the purpose of Reconstruction by turning his back on the newly emancipated slaves and failed to navigate the discord that was the postbellum period. His ineptitude and unfavorable positions made him the first President to ever be impeached.

Warren G. Harding is known as the one of the most ineffectual President in history. As the US recovered from total war with the Central Powers in World War I, Harding proceeded to do everything, but govern. To him, his mistress, golf, and poker, were more important than safeguarding the nation's interest from members of his own administration, who bled the US Treasury dry and took under-the-table deals from oilmen. The corruption in his rule was on the same level of Grant's, only Harding knew what was happening, when it was happening, and did nothing. In fact, the only reason he became president was because of 11th-hour negotiations by GOP party bosses, and his infamous vagueness as a candidate.

Buchanan was President in the evening years leading up to the Civil War. He is most remembered for doing, literally, nothing. While he condemned slavery, he was not an abolitionist. He supported every compromise measure which only guaranteed the spread of slavery in the Western territories. He sat and watched as the nation's tensions flared up again and again. Finally, doing absolutely nothing to hold the union together when southern leaders declared their intent to secede if Lincoln was elected. This all took time. Time in which James Buchanan had many opportunity to act. But he did nothing to hold the country together. And for that, he is remembered. At least Andrew Jackson kept the union together through sheer force. Speaking of which...

Andrew Jackson. The Worst President Ever. He is responsible for authorizing and enforcing the Indian Removal Act, which began the tradition of ethnic cleansing and genocide of the indigenous peoples of North America, including the Trail of Tears. Jackson created an administration called the "spoils system" where he planted his friends in high offices and systematically used the constitution as a weapon for tyranny. This era in US history is defined by "King Andrew," as he was called, for sheer executive brutality and the constant threats of military force, even against the states themselves, albeit in response to the threat of secession. Jackson created precedents for corruption that resulted in many scandals throughout US history, as well as a tradition of genocide toward Native Americans.