We are big fans of rankings things around here, though I usually try to keep it to top 10 lists. But C-SPAN just unveiled their most recent poll of historians on the ranking of the US presidents. Go check it out.
Which meant that it was only a matter of time before I tried to match their list. The list is sorted by my rating, but I will put the “official” ranking in parenthesis for a point of comparison. I did consider their ten categories for rankings, but I wasn’t bound by it. Here we go:
1 George Washington (2)
When I was a younger man, I tried to argue against Washington’s greatness.