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Who Is The Best Looking U.S. President Of All Time?

Posted in Pop Culture by larrycheng on November 13, 2009

I was reminded today of the commonly held belief that since the advent of mass media – good looks is a critical advantage in winning the Presidency of the United States.  So out of sheer curiosity (a common refrain in this blog), I pulled together the images of all 42 Presidents courtesy of the White House website.  Are the Presidents of the mass media generation better looking?  Who is the best looking President of all-time?  Judge for yourself… 

1 - George Washington

2 - John Adams

3 - Thomas Jefferson

4 - James Madison

5 - James Monroe

6 - John Quincy Adams

7 - Andrew Jackson

8 - Martin Van Buren

9 - William Henry Harrison

10 - John Tyler

11 - James Polk

12 - Zachary Taylor

13 - Millard Fillmore

14 - Franklin Pierce

15 - James Buchanan

16 - Abraham Lincoln

17 - Andrew Johnson

18 - Ulysses Grant

19 - Rutherford Hayes

20 - James Garfield

21 - Chester Arthur

22 - Grover Cleveland

23 - Benjamin Harrison

24 - Grover Cleveland

25 - William McKinley

26 - Theodore Roosevelt

27 - William Taft

28 - Woodrow Wilson

29 - Warren Harding

30 - Calvin Coolidge

31 - Herbert Hoover

32 - Franklin Roosevelt

33 - Harry Truman

34 - Dwight Eisenhower

35 - John Kennedy

36 - Lyndon Johnson

37 - Richard Nixon

38 - Gerald Ford

39 - Jimmy Carter

40 - Ronald Reagen

41 - George H Bush

42 - Bill Clinton

43 - George W Bush

44 - Barack Obama