US News: 10 Worst Presidents

It's too soon to judge the current one, but for past presidents, the verdict is in. U.S. News has averaged the results of five presidential polls to make a gallery of the worst chief executives. The years before the Civil War produced an era of failure: Six of seven presidents who served from 1841 to 1861 made the list.

Buchanan
Harding
A. Johnson
Pierce
Fillmore
Tyler
Grant
Wm. Henry Harrison
Hoover
Nixon
Taylor