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Encyclopedia > List of U.S. Presidential nicknames

This is a list of nicknames of each President of the United States. The President of the United States (fully, President of the United States of America; unofficially abbreviated POTUS) is the head of state of the United States and the chief executive of the federal government. ...



# President Nicknames
43 George W. Bush W, often pronounced "Dubya" in Texas style, also: GW, GWB
43, or Bush 43
Bush Jr.
Bush the Younger
Baby Bush
Shrub (used by Molly Ivins as the title of a book)
Bush II
Uncurious George or Incurious George
Dumbya, and Dubbia the Incoherent, (both play on his normal nickname)[1]
Usurper-in-Chief and Commander-in-Thief
42 Bill Clinton Slick Willie
Ol' Slick
Bubba
Big Dog
Comeback Kid
Elvis

"The first black president" (coined by Chris Rock, later used by Toni Morrison, Clinton as the First Black President, The New Yorker October 5, 1998])
(As with Jimmy Carter, President Clinton is better known by his nickname "Bill" than by his legal name, William Jefferson Clinton.)
BJ Clinton
The Big Creep, based on the infamous conversation between Linda Tripp and Monica Lewinsky
42, a play on the 41 and 43 nicknames of the Bushes and Clinton's unexpected father-son relationship to Bush 41. George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States. ... Molly Ivins (born August 30, 1944, as Mary Tyler Ivins) is an American political commentator, journalist, and author based in Austin, Texas. ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ... Toni Morrison (born February 18, 1931) is one of the most prominent authors in world literature, having won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. ... The New Yorkers first cover, which is reprinted most years on the magazines anniversary. ... Linda Tripp at the time of the Lewinsky scandal before extensive plastic surgery altered her appearance drastically. ... Monica Lewinsky as she appeared on the cover of her book, Monicas Story. Monica Lewinsky receives a hug from U.S. President Bill Clinton during a fundraising event in Washington, DC, October, 1996 Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is an American woman who was thrust into the...

41 George H. W. Bush 41, or Bush 41
Bush Sr.
Bush I
Bush the Elder
Poppy
Daddy Bush
Bush père
40 Ronald Reagan The Gipper - after his role as George "The Gipper" Gipp in the film Knute Rockne, All American
The Great Communicator
Ronnie Raygun - after his proposed Strategic Defense Initiative, derided as "Star Wars"
Teflon President/Teflon Ron - because supposedly nothing negative "stuck" on him
Dutch Reagan
Rawhide (his Secret Service codename)
Rockin' Ronnie, or Rotten Ronnie (depending on one's view of Reagan)
The Great Prevaricator
39 Jimmy Carter Peanut Farmer
Jimmy Peanut
(As Carter's legal first name is "James"; "Jimmy" is actually a nickname. Carter successfully sued to be placed upon the ballot as "Jimmy" in several states.)
38 Gerald Ford Jerry
Mr. Nice Guy
37 Richard Nixon Tricky Dick
The Trickster
Gloomy Gus (law school nickname)
Richard the Chicken-Hearted (because he would not debate Hubert Humphrey during the 1968 U.S. presidential campaign)
Iron Pants
36 Lyndon B. Johnson LBJ
Landslide Lyndon—ironically dubbed for his 87-vote victory in a Senate primary
35 John F. Kennedy JFK
King of Camelot - after the King Arthur legend, specifically after the 1960 musical Camelot
Jack
34 Dwight D. Eisenhower Ike
Alarmist Ike (so called by fellow officers in 1939, because he was sure the U.S. would be involved in a war)
Gloomy Face (while a cadet at West Point)
Great Delegator
33 Harry S. Truman Give 'Em Hell Harry
Haberdasher Harry
32 Franklin D. Roosevelt FDR
That Man in the White House [2]
Roosevelt II
31 Herbert Hoover Hermit Author of Palo Alto
Great Humanitarian
Great Engineer
30 Calvin Coolidge Silent Cal
29 Warren G. Harding President Hardly
Babbit in the White House (reference to a title character in a Sinclair Lewis novel)
Great Handshaker
28 Woodrow Wilson Schoolmaster of Politics
Coiner of Weasel Words
Phrasemaker
27 William Howard Taft Big Bill
26 Theodore Roosevelt Teddy (he personally disliked this nickname)
TR
Trustbuster
Rough Rider
Roosevelt I
the Cyclone Assemblyman
the Hero of San Juan Hill
25 William McKinley Idol of Ohio
Stocking-footed Orator
The front porch campaigner
23 Benjamin Harrison White House Iceberg
Kid Gloves Harrison
22/24 Grover Cleveland Hangman of Buffalo
Veto President
Uncle Jumbo
21 Chester A. Arthur Gentleman Boss
Elegant Arthur
20 James A. Garfield Preacher President
Boatman Jim
19 Rutherford B. Hayes Old Eight to Seven
Rutherfraud
Granny Hayes
President De Facto
Great Unknown
18 Ulysses S. Grant U.S. Grant
Unconditional Surrender Grant
17 Andrew Johnson Father of the Homestead Act
Sir Veto
Tennessee Tailor
King Andy
16 Abraham Lincoln Honest Abe
The Rail-Splitter
The Great Emancipator (for the emancipation of the slaves)
15 James Buchanan Ten-cent Jimmy
Old Public Functionary
Old Buck
14 Franklin Pierce Young Hickory of Granite Hills
Handsome Frank
13 Millard Fillmore His Accidency
Wool-Carder President
12 Zachary Taylor Old Rough and Ready
Old Zach
11 James K. Polk Young Hickory
Napoleon of the Stump
10 John Tyler His Accidency
9 William Henry Harrison Ol' Tippecanoe
Granny Harrison
8 Martin Van Buren Machiavellian Belshazzar
Old Kinderhook (possible origin of "OK")
Red Fox of Kinderhook
Little Magician
Martin Van Ruin
7 Andrew Jackson Old Hickory
Hero of New Orleans
King Andy
6 John Quincy Adams Old Man Eloquent
King John II
5 James Monroe Last of the Cocked Hats
James the Lesser
James the Second
4 James Madison Father of the Constitution
Little Man of the Palace
Sage of Montpelier
Withered Little Apple-John (so-called by Washington Irving)
Fugitive President (since he was forced to flee the White House in 1814, during the War of 1812)
3 Thomas Jefferson Father of the Declaration of Independence
Long Tom
Negro President - for his victory in the election of 1800, won because of the three-fifths compromise
Red Fox
Sage of Monticello
Moonshine Philosopher of Monticello
Noble Agrarian
2 John Adams His Rotundity
Atlas of Independence
Colossus of Debate
Old Sink or Swim
Your Superfluous Excellency (called by Benjamin Franklin when Adams was vice president)
1 George Washington Father of His Country
Sword of the Revolution
American Fabius - for his military strategy during the Revolutionary War
The American Cincinnatus
Town Destroyer - used by some Iroquois

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The cover of the 2004 DVD widescreen release of the modified original Star Wars Trilogy. ... Teflon is the brand name of a polymer compound discovered by Roy J. Plunkett (1910–1994) of DuPont in 1938 and introduced as a commercial product in 1946. ... James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr. ... Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. ... Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. ... Hubert Horatio Humphrey II (May 27, 1911–January 13, 1978) was the 38th Vice President of the United States, twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota and was mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota. ... Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States (1963–1969). ... Seal of the Senate The United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives. ... John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as John F. Kennedy, JFK, or Jack Kennedy, was the 35th President of the United States. ... Camelot is the name of the stronghold of the legendary King Arthur, from which he fought many of the battles that made up his life. ... King Arthur is an important figure in the mythology of Great Britain, where he appears as the ideal of kingship in both war and peace. ... The 1960 musical, Camelot, was written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe and is loosely based on the King Arthur legend as adapted from the T.H. White novel The Once and Future King. ... Dwight David Ike Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American soldier and politician. ... USMA redirects here, but this abbreviation can also mean U.S. Metric Association. ... Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the thirty-fourth Vice President (1945) and the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–53), succeeding to the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. ... Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), 32nd President of the United States (1933-1945), is best known for his leading the U.S. through the Great Depression via his New Deal, his building a powerful political coalition, the New Deal Coalition, that dominated American politics for decades... Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933). ... John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. ... Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was an American politician and the 29th President of the United States, serving from 1921 to 1923, when he became the sixth president to die in office. ... Sinclair Lewis Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist and playwright. ... Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States (1913–1921). ... William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was an American politician, the 27th President of the United States, and the 10th Chief Justice of the United States. ... Theodore Roosevelt, formally Theodore Roosevelt Jr. ... Roosevelt and the Rough Riders atop San Juan Heights, 1898 The Rough Riders was the name bestowed by the American press on the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry regiment during the Spanish-American War. ... Combatants United States Republic of Cuba Spain Commanders William Rufus Shafter Arsenio Linares Strength 15,000 regulars 4,000 guerrilleros 12 field guns 4 Gatling guns 800 regulars 5 field guns Casualties 124 dead 817 wounded 58 dead 170 wounded 39 captured The Battle of San Juan Hill was the... The name Mckinley redirects here. ... Official language(s) None Capital Columbus Largest city Columbus (largest metropolitan area is Cleveland) Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 34th 116,096 km² 355 km 355 km 8. ... Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the 23rd President of the United States (1889-1893). ... Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was the 22nd (1885–1889) and 24th (1893–1897) President of the United States, and the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms. ... Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 – November 18, 1886) was an American politician who served as 21st President of the United States. ... James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881) was the 20th President of the United States (1881), and the second U.S. President to be assassinated. ... Rutherford Birchard Hayes (October 4, 1822 – January 17, 1893) was the 19th President of the United States (1877 – 1881). ... Ulysses S. Grant (April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877). ... Unconditional surrender refers to a surrender without conditions, except for those provided by international law. ... Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the sixteenth Vice President (1865) and the seventeenth President of the United States (1865–1869), succeeding to the presidency upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. ... The Homestead Act of 1862 is a piece of U.S. legislation which gave one quarter of a section of a township (160 acres, or about 65 hectares) of undeveloped land in the American West to any family head or person that was at least 21 years of age, provided... Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), sometimes called Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, was the 16th President of the United States (1861 to 1865), and the first president from the Republican Party. ... James Buchanan (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was the 15th president of the United States (1857–1861). ... Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804 – October 8, 1869) was an American politician and the 14th President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. ... Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the thirteenth President of the United States, serving from 1850 until 1853, and the last member of the Whig Party to hold the nations highest office. ... Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 – July 9, 1850), also known as Old Rough and Ready, was the twelfth President of the United States, serving from 1849 to 1850. ... James Knox Polk (November 2, 1795–June 15, 1849) was the eleventh President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1845 to March 3, 1849. ... For other uses, see Napoleon (disambiguation). ... John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth (1841-1845) President of the United States. ... William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was an American military leader, politician, and the ninth President of the United States. ... The Battle of Tippecanoe was a decisive victory by United States forces led by then-Governor of the Indiana Territory William Henry Harrison over the forces of Tecumsehs growing American Indian confederation. ... Martin Van Buren (December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862), nicknamed Old Kinderhook, was the eighth President of the United States. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845), eponym of the era of Jacksonian democracy and a founder of the Democratic Party, was the seventh President of the United States, serving from 1829 to 1837. ... Combatants United Kingdom United States Commanders Edward Pakenham † John Lambert Andrew Jackson Strength 11,000–14,500 4,000–6,000 Casualties 2,036 71 The Battle of New Orleans, also known as the Battle of Chalmette Plantation, took place on January 8, 1815, during the War of 1812, when... John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was the sixth (1825-1829) President of the United States. ... James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was the fifth (1817–1825) President of the United States and author of the eponymous Monroe Doctrine. ... James Madison (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was the fourth (1809–1817) President of the United States. ... Washington Irving Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American author of the early 19th century. ... The southern side of the White House The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States of America. ... 1814 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... The War of 1812 was fought between the United States and United Kingdom from 1812 to 1815, on land in North America and at sea around the world. ... Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 N.S. – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), author of the United States Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential Founders of the United States. ... U.S. Declaration of Independence The Declaration of Independence is a document in which the Thirteen Colonies declared themselves independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain and explained their justifications for doing so. ... Presidential electoral votes by state. ... The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention in which only three-fifths of the population of slaves would be counted for enumeration purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the... Thomas Jeffersons Monticello Monticello, located near Charlottesville, Virginia, is the estate of Thomas Jefferson. ... John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was the first (1789–1797) Vice President of the United States, and the second (1797–1801) President of the United States. ... Benjamin Franklin by Jean-Baptiste Greuze 1777 Benjamin Franklin (January 17 [O.S. January 6] 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the most prominent of Founders and early political figures and statesmen of the United States. ... The Vice President of the United States is the second-highest executive official of the United States government, the person who, in the words of Adlai Stevenson, is a heartbeat from the presidency. ... George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was the successful Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War (1775–83), and later became the first President of the United States, an office to which he was elected twice (1789-97). ... Father of the Nation is a term used by many countries to describe a political or symbolic leader who was one of the most influential founding fathers of the nation. ... -1... Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus (c. ... Fabian strategy is a military strategy that seeks to buy time and wear down an enemy. ... Combatants American Revolutionaries, France, allies British Empire, allies Commanders George Washington Comte de Rochambeau Nathanael Greene William Howe Henry Clinton Charles Cornwallis Strength {{{strength1}}} {{{strength2}}} Casualties {{{casualties1}}} {{{casualties2}}} The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence, was the military side of the American Revolution. ... With one hand he returns the fasces, symbol of power as appointed dictator of Rome. ... Town Destroyer was the nickname given to George Washington by certain Iroquois after the Sullivan Expedition in the American Revolutionary War destroyed at least 40 American Indian villages. ... The Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee, also known as the League of Peace and Power, Five Nations, or Six Nations) is a group of First Nations/Native Americans. ...

Reference

Paleta, Lu Ann, and Fred Worth. The World Almanac of Presidential Facts. Pharos Books, 1993.


DeGregario, William A. The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents. Barricade Books, 1991.


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Presidential lists of order: Order of service | Birth | Death | Age when becoming president | Longevity | Military rank | Post-presidency length | Term length | Height | Historical rankings The President of the United States (fully, President of the United States of America; unofficially abbreviated POTUS) is the head of state of the United States and the chief executive of the federal government. ... The Vice President of the United States is the second-highest executive official of the United States government, the person who, in the words of Adlai Stevenson, is a heartbeat from the presidency. ... The complete list of Presidents of the United States consists of the 42 heads of state in the history of the United States. ... This is a list of current and former U.S. Presidents by date of birth. ... This is a list of U.S. Presidents by date of death. ... The following list is based upon the persons age at the time of ascension to the office, not election to the Presidency. ... This is a list of U.S. Presidents by longevity. ... The United States Constitution names the President of the United States the commander in chief of the U.S. armed forces. ... * alive as of December 27, 2005 ** Cleveland was a former president for 4 years after his first term plus another 11 years after his second term. ... This is a list of U.S. Presidents by time in office. ... This is a list of U.S. Presidents by height order. ... Many surveys have been conducted in order to construct rankings of the success of individuals who have served as President of the United States. ...


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