Happy Presidents’ Day!
Presidential Nicknames
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George Wasthingon
Father of His County, The Sage of Mount Vernon
John Adams
His Roundity, The Atlas of Independence, Bonny Johnny
Thomas Jefferson
Long Tom, The Pen of the Revolution, Apostle of the Constitution
James Madison
Father of the Constitution, Little Johnny, Sage of Montpelier
James Monroe
The Last of the Crooked Hats
John Quincy Adams
Old Man Eloquent, Publicola
Andrew Jackson
Old Hickory, The Old Hero, King Andrew the First
Martin Van Buren
The Red Fox of Kinderhook, O.K., The Little Magician, Little Van
William Henry Harrison
Old Tippecanoe, The Cincinnatus of the West, Old Granny
John Tyler
His Accidency, Young Hickory
James K. Polk
Polk the Purposeful, Napoleon of the Stump
Zachary Taylor
Old Rough and Ready, Old Zack
Millard Fillmore
The Accidental President, the Wool Carder President
Franklin Pierce
Hansome Frank, Purse
James Buchanan
Old Buck, The Do-Nothing President
Abraham Lincoln
The Great Emancipator, Honest Abe, The Rail Splitter
AndrewJohnson
The Tailor, Sir Veto, Father of the Homestead Act
Ulysses S. Grant
American Ceasar, The Galena Tanner, Useless S. Grant
Ruther B. Hayes
His Fraudulency, Old 8 to 7
James A. Garfield
The Canal Boy, The Preacher President
Grover Cleveland
Grover the Good, Old Grover
Benjamin Harrison
Young Tippecanoe, Little Ben, The Centennial President
William McKinley
Liberator of Cuba, The Idol of Ohio, Wobbly Willie
Theodore Roosevelt
The Rough Rider, The Cowboy, Rough and Ready, T.R.
Woodrow Wilson
The Professor, The Phrasemaker
William B. Harding
W.G.
Calvin Coolidge
Silent Cal
Herbert Hoover
Chief, Grand Old Man
Franklin D. Roosevelt
F.D.R., The Boss, King Franklin
Harry S. Truman
Give’em Hell Harry, Haberdasher Harry
Dwight D. Eisenhower
General Ike, Kanasas Cyclone, Duckpin
John F. Kennedy
J.F.K.
Lyndon B. Johnson
L.B.J.
Richard M. Nixon
Tricky Dick, Richard the Chicken-Hearted
Gerald Ford
Jerry, accidental president
Jimmy Carter
The Peanut Farmer, Cousin Hot
Ronald Reagan
The Great Communicator, Dutch, Ronald the Right
George W. Bush
W.

