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re: Who is the most forgettable president?
Posted on 5/4/24 at 8:22 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 5/4/24 at 8:22 pm to RollTide1987
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Millard Fillmore
Millard Filmore should be opposite of forgettable. He was the last President who was a member of the Whig party. Opened up trade relations with Japan. Started the first library in the White House. Signed the Fugitive Slave Act, which may have been one of the biggest contributors to the Civil War. By the end of his presidency, he was so unpopular that his own party chose not to nominate him. Then, years later he got involved in the Know Nothing party.
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Posted on 5/4/24 at 10:58 pm to McVick
Being the last Whig president isn’t that memorable due to how unmemorable the Whig Party was. It only lasted for about 20 years, and Zachary Taylor’s 16 months in office were the only time that a true Whig served a semblance of a presidential term. William Henry Harrison’s entire cabinet quit when John Tyler became president because Tyler was a Democrat posing as a Whig, and Filmore seems to have been a Democrat posing as a Whig too.
The reason why Filmore arguably shouldn’t be on an unmemorable presidents list is because he’s a tiny bit famous for his obscurity. The groups of people who read books of meaningless facts like Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader- they’ll sometimes analogize meaningless, obscure things to Millard Filmore. For whatever reason Millard Filmore ended up being the go-to president to analogize to obscure things rather than some other obscure president.
The reason why Filmore arguably shouldn’t be on an unmemorable presidents list is because he’s a tiny bit famous for his obscurity. The groups of people who read books of meaningless facts like Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader- they’ll sometimes analogize meaningless, obscure things to Millard Filmore. For whatever reason Millard Filmore ended up being the go-to president to analogize to obscure things rather than some other obscure president.
This post was edited on 5/4/24 at 11:04 pm
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