User:Dpm12/TenGreatestPresidents

The top ten greatest Presidents of the United States (in order):

List order	President order	Portrait	Name/Years in office	Home state	Political party	Previously held political offices
1	16		Abraham Lincoln * (1861–1865)	Illinois	Republican	Illinois State Congressman (1834–1842) United States Congressman from Illinois (1847–1849)
2	32		Franklin D. Roosevelt * (1933–1945)	New York	Democratic	New York State Senator (1911–1913) Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1913–1920) Governor of New York (1929–1932)
3	1		George Washington (1789–1797)	Virginia	Independent (sometimes listed as a Federalist)	Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses (1758–1765) Delegate to the first and second Continental Congress from Virginia (1774–1775)
4	26		Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909)	New York	Republican	New York State Legislator (1882–1884) New York State Assembly Minority Leader (1883) Police Commissioner of New York City (1895–1897) Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1897–1898) Governor of New York (1899–1900) Vice President of the United States (1901)
5	18		Ulysses S. Grant (1869–1877)	Ohio	Republican	None
6	34		Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961)	Kansas	Republican	None
7	3		Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809)	Virginia	Democratic-Republican	Delegate to the Continental Congress from Virginia (1775–1776; 1783–1784) Governor of Virginia (1779–1781) United States Ambassador to France (1785–1789) Secretary of State of the United States (1790–1793) Vice President of the United States (1797–1801)
8	35		John Fitzgerald Kennedy * (1961–1963)	Massachusetts	Democratic	United States Congressman from Massachusetts (1947–1953) United States Senator from Massachusetts (1953–1960)
9	11		James K. Polk (1845–1849)	Tennessee	Democratic	United States Congressman from Tennessee (1825–1839) Speaker of the House of Representatives (1835–1839) Governor of Tennessee (1839–1841)
10	36		Lyndon B. Johnson (1963–1969)	Texas	Democratic	United States Congressman from Texas (1937–1939) United States Senator from Texas (1939–1961) Senate Majority Whip (1951–1953) Senate Minority Leader (1953–1955) Senate Majority Leader (1955–1961) Vice President of the United States (1961–1963)

A star next to the name means the President died in office.