Presidential Humor Rankings:

Funny AND effective

"At the top of the heap ... I place Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan, and the two Roosevelts. By most accounts they are also among the most effective chief executives. Coincidence? I don't think so." -- Sen. Bob Dole, Great Presidential Wits

The Categories:

In a Class by Themselves:

1. Abraham Lincoln
2. Ronald Reagan
3. Franklin D. Roosevelt
4. Theodore Roosevelt

Yankee Wits:

5. Calvin Coolidge
6. John F. Kennedy

Plain Speaker, Tall Tales and a Poker Face

7. Harry Truman
8. Lyndon Johnson
9. Herbert Hoover

Classroom Humorists:

10. Woodrow Wilson
11. James Garfield

Funnier than the Average President:

12. George Bush (Sr.)
13. William Howard Taft
14. John Adams
15. George Washington
16. Thomas Jefferson
17. Bill Clinton

And You Always Thought They Were Dull.....

18. Dwight Eisenhower
19. Gerald Ford
20. Rutherford B. Hayes
21. William McKinley
22. Jimmy Carter

Stick in the Mud:

23. Ulysses Grant
24 James Monroe
25. Richard Nixon
26. John Tyler
27. Andrew Jackson
28. Chester Arthur
29. John Quincy Adams
30. Andrew Johnson
31. James Madison
32. Grover Cleveland
33. James K. Polk

The Joke's On Them:

34. Zachary Taylor
35. Warren G. Harding
36. Martin Van Buren
37. James Buchanan
38. William Henry Harrison
39. Franklin Pierce
40. Benjamin Harrison
41. Millard Fillmore**

** Not to be confused with Bruce Tinsley's MALLARD Fillmore, who is quite funny!

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