List of nicknames of United States Presidents

This is a list of nicknames of Presidents of the United States which were in common usage at the time they were in office or shortly thereafter.

Presidential nicknames

George Washington

Full name: George Washington

John Adams

Full name: John Adams

Thomas Jefferson

Full name: Thomas Jefferson

James Madison

Full name: James Madison

James Monroe

Full name: James Monroe

John Quincy Adams

Full name: John Quincy Adams

Andrew Jackson

Full name: Andrew Jackson

Martin Van Buren

Full name: Martin Van Buren

William Henry Harrison

Full name: William Henry Harrison

John Tyler

Full name: John Tyler, Jr.

James K. Polk

Full name: James Knox Polk

Zachary Taylor

Full name: Zachary Taylor

Millard Fillmore

Full name: Millard Fillmore

Franklin Pierce

Full name: Franklin Pierce

James Buchanan

Full name: James Buchanan, Jr.

Abraham Lincoln

Full name: Abraham Lincoln

Andrew Johnson

Full name: Andrew Johnson

Ulysses S. Grant

Full name: Ulysses S. Grant — born Hiram Ulysses Grant but enrolled at West Point as Ulysses S. Grant through a clerical error [46]

Rutherford B. Hayes

Full name: Rutherford Birchard Hayes

James A. Garfield

Full name: James Abram Garfield

Chester A. Arthur

Full name: Chester Alan Arthur

Grover Cleveland

Full name: Stephen Grover Cleveland

Benjamin Harrison

Full name: Benjamin Harrison

William McKinley

Full name: William McKinley, Jr.

Theodore Roosevelt

Full name: Theodore Roosevelt

William Howard Taft

Full name: William Howard Taft

Woodrow Wilson

Full name: Thomas Woodrow Wilson

Warren G. Harding

Full name: Warren Gamaliel Harding

Calvin Coolidge

Full name: John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.

Herbert Hoover

Full name: Herbert Clark Hoover

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Full name: Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Harry S. Truman

Full name: Harry S. Truman

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Full name: Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower)

John F. Kennedy

Full name: John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Lyndon B. Johnson

Full name: Lyndon Baines Johnson

Richard Nixon

Full name: Richard Milhous Nixon

Gerald Ford

Full name: Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.)

Jimmy Carter

Full name: James Earl Carter, Jr.

Ronald Reagan

Full name: Ronald Wilson Reagan

George H. W. Bush

Full name: George Herbert Walker Bush

Bill Clinton

Full name: William Jefferson Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III)

George W. Bush

Full name: George Walker Bush

Barack Obama

Full name: Barack Hussein Obama II

See also

References

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  4. He has gained fame around the world as a quintessential example of a benevolent national founder. Gordon Wood concludes that the greatest act in his life was his resignation as commander of the armies—an act that stunned aristocratic Europe. Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992), pp 105–6; Edmund Morgan, The Genius of George Washington (1980), pp 12–13; Sarah J. Purcell, Sealed With Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America (2002) p. 97; Don Higginbotham, George Washington (2004); Ellis, 2004. The earliest known image in which Washington is identified as such is on the cover of the circa 1778 Pennsylvania German almanac (Lancaster: Gedruckt bey Francis Bailey).
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