Which president had the highest military rank?
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As far as rank goes, it can be argued that both Washington and Eisenhower were the highest ranking. The ranking in Washington's time is not the same as it was during Eisenhower's.\n\nGeorge Washington - Commander in Chief of Continental Army during the American Revolution. \nJames Monroe - served in American Revolution \nAndrew Jackson - American Revolution, War of 1812, First Seminole War \nWilliam Henry Harrison - Indian wars in the NW territory, War of 1812 \nJohn Tyler - War of 1812 \nZachary Taylor - War of 1812, Black Hawk, Second Seminole, and Mexican wars \nFranklin Pierce - Mexican War \nJames Buchanan - War of 1812 \nAbraham Lincoln - Black Hawk War \nAndrew Johnson - Civil War \nUlysses Grant - Mexican War, Civil War \nRutherford Hayes - Civil War \nJames Garfield - Civil War \nChester Arthur - Civil War \nBenjamin Harrison - Civil War \nWilliam McKinley - Civil War \nTheodore Roosevelt - Spanish-American War \nHarry Truman - WWI \nDwight Eisenhower - WWII General \nJohn Kennedy - WWII \nLyndon Johnson - WWII \nRichard Nixon - WWII \nGerald Ford - WWII \nGeorge Bush - WWII
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Ronald Reagan\n\nhttp://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/presidents/firsts.htm
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The only uneducated person is John Kerry.  He surely hasn't been around the modern military, making statements like that. To achieve higher levels of rank, you must have a college degree.  At least 98% of all military have at least a high school diploma compared to 75% of people across the U.S.  A very large number of military have college degrees.  Military personnel could well give college professors lessons in life experience and views on the world that the professors themselves have never experienced. Kerry's military decorations are suspicious at best, unless you are Audie Murphy, it would almost be near impossible to recieve all those decorations in just a few months. As for Kerry, every time he opens his mouth, he inflicts more wounds on himself and his party. Confucius say: Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open mouth and remove all doubt.
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1.George Washington, 1789-1797 \n2.John Adams, 1797-1801 \n3.Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809 \n4.James Madison, 1809-1817 \n5.James Monroe, 1817-1825 \n6.John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829 \n7.Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837 \n8.Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841 \n9.William Henry Harrison, 1841 \n10.John Tyler, 1841-1845 \n11.James Knox Polk, 1845-1849 \n12.Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850 \n13.Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853 \n14.Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857 \n15.James Buchanan, 1857-1861 \n16.Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865 \n17.Andrew Johnson, 1865-1869 \n18.Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1869-1877 \n19.Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1877-1881 \n20.James Abram Garfield, 1881 \n21.Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-1885 \n22.Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889 \n23.Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893 \n24.Grover Cleveland, 1893-1897 \n25.William McKinley, 1897-1901 \n26.Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909 \n27.William Howard Taft, 1909-1913 \n28.Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921 \n29.Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-1923 \n30.Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929 \n31.Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-1933 \n32.Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945 \n33.Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953 \n34.Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961 \n35.John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963 \n36.Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969 \n37.Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974 \n38.Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977 \n39.James Earl Carter, Jr., 1977-1981 \n40.Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-1989 \n41.George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993 \n42.William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001 \n43.George Walker Bush, 2001-
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Interesting fact.  Eisenhower had to give up his rank in the military when he became president.  Kennedy's first action as president (he was the 35th) was to reinstate Eisenhower's military rank.
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Well, Bush the younger is a jogger, but assuming they're all back from the dead and in their prime, then all of the presidents who were generals (there were a lot of those in the 19th century) would be probable winners.  I'm gonna go ahead and guess Franklin Pierce, because not only would he have to have been in good shape in the Army, he was also really good looking.  It's always nice to see the handsomest win.  Fatass Taft would definitely finish last, assuming he didn't have a heart attack first.
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Define "best."  LBJ was a phenominal president with a war problem.  Dwight Eisenhower did almost nothing, but it was the most productive nothing he could have done.  FDR managed some really amazing things given what he had to deal with.
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The first one to come to mind is the first president Bush.  If I remember right he went from above 90% after the Gulf war to under 30% a year later.
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General Dwight David Eisenhower, popularly known as "Ike", was considered the "Commander in Chief of Allied Forces", sometimes "Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers" (SCAP). He later became the 34th President of the United States from 1953–1961.\n\nIn the Japanese 'theater' the title "Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers" was applied to Douglas MacArthur.\n\n[There have actually been a total of five 5-star Generals... General George C. Marshall, General Douglas MacArthur, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Henry H. Arnold, General Omar N. Bradley]
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You know there is a high ranking general in the U.S.Army\nthat recently done a critical inspection and overview of\nthe situation at abu grad prison in IRAQ, that made fairly large headlines around the world a couple of years ago.\nit was noted that he was the highest ranking filipino in\nthe U.S. army i forget his name im sure you can find it on the net.
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147 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) \n132 Harry Truman (D) \n122 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) \n174 John F. Kennedy (D) \n126 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) \n155 Richard M. Nixon (R) \n121 Gerald Ford (R) \n175 James E. Carter (D) \n105 Ronald Reagan (R) \n098 George HW Bush (R) \n182 William J. Clinton (D) \n091 George W. Bush (R)
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george w. bush\ngeorge bush\nGerald ford\njames polk\nwilliam taft
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President \n  Abraham Lincoln 1861–1865 \n\nVice President\n  Hannibal Hamlin 1861–1865 \n  Andrew Johnson 1865 \n\nSecretary of State \n  William H. Seward 1861–1865 \n\nSecretary of the Treasury \n  Salmon P. Chase 1861–1864 \n  William P. Fessenden 1864–1865 \n  Hugh McCulloch 1865 \n\nSecretary of War \n  Simon Cameron 1861–1862 \n  Edwin M. Stanton 1862–1865 \n\nAttorney General \n  Edward Bates 1861–1864 \n  James Speed 1864–1865 \n\nPostmaster General \n  Horatio King 1861 \n  Montgomery Blair 1861–1864 \n  William Dennison 1864–1865 \n\nSecretary of the Navy \n  Gideon Welles 1861–1865 \n\nSecretary of the Interior \n  Caleb B. Smith 1861–1863 \n  John P. Usher 1863–1865
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Dwight Eisenhower,  and Woodrow W. Wilson. Eisenhower was once the president of Columbia University, Wilson was once the president of Princeton University and Wesleyan Univeristy.
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Best = tie between Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt\nWorse = George W. Bush; without fail and or reservations.
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Lincoln was the most pragmatic President.  He led from the front, and showed morale courage rarely exhibited by any human being.
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Presidents usually have no authority above them such as the USA President is also Commander and Chief of the military.  Where as in Canada and many other countries where a Prime Minister is elect there is some one connected to Monarchy, (King or Queen) as Commander and Chief such as in Canada we have the Governor General to The Queen of England.  Governor General is the Commander and Chief with the authority over the military.