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List of U.S. Presidential nicknames
This is a
list of nicknames of U.S. Presidents
:
George W. Bush
: Shrub, 43, Dubya, Uncurious George
Bill Clinton
: Slick Willie, Bubba
George H. W. Bush
: 41, Poppy, Resumé Candidate
Ronald Reagan
: The Gipper, The Great Communicator, Ronnie Raygun, Teflon President
Jimmy Carter
: Peanut President
Gerald Ford
: Jerry, Mr. Nice Guy
Richard Nixon
: Tricky Dick
Lyndon B. Johnson
: LBJ, Landslide Lyndon
John F. Kennedy
: JFK
Dwight D. Eisenhower
: Ike
Harry S Truman
: Give 'Em Hell Harry
Franklin D. Roosevelt
: FDR
Herbert Hoover
: Hermit Author of Palo Alto, Great Humanitarian
Calvin Coolidge
: Silent Cal
Warren G. Harding
: President Hardly
Woodrow Wilson
: Schoolmaster of Politics, Coiner of Weasel Words
William Howard Taft
: Big Bill
Theodore Roosevelt
: Teddy, TR, Trustbuster
William McKinley
: Idol of Ohio, Stocking-footed Orator
Benjamin Harrison
: White House Iceberg, Kid Gloves Harrison
Grover Cleveland
: Hangman of Buffalo, Veto President, Uncle Jumbo
Chester A. Arthur
: Gentleman Boss
James A. Garfield
: Preacher President, Boatman Jim
Rutherford B. Hayes
: Old Eight to Seven, Rutherfraud
Ulysses S. Grant
: U.S. Grant, Unconditional Surrender Grant
Andrew Johnson
: Father of the Homestead Act, Tennessee Tailor
Abraham Lincoln
: Honest Abe, the Log-Splitter, Great Emancipator
James Buchanan
: Ten-cent Jimmy, Old Public Functionary
Franklin Pierce
: Young Hickory of the Granite Hills
Millard Fillmore
: His Accidency, Wool-Carder President
Zachary Taylor
: Old Rough and Ready, Old Zach
James K. Polk
: Young Hickory, Napoleon of the Stump
John Tyler
: His Accidency
William Henry Harrison
: Tippecanoe
Martin Van Buren
: Machiavellian Belshazzar, Red Fox of Kinderhook
Andrew Jackson
: Old Hickory, Hero of New Orleans
John Quincy Adams
: Old Man Eloquent
James Monroe
: Last of the Cocked Hats
James Madison
: Father of the Constitution
Thomas Jefferson
: Father of the Declaration of Independence
John Adams
: His Rotundity, Atlas of Independence
George Washington
: Father of His Country, Sword of the Revolution