How Many Obscure U.S. Presidents Can You Name?

I'll never understand their definition of obscure: Taylor was a hero of the Mexican-American War. Grant won the War Between The States. Taft was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. L.B. Johnson has the blood of 60,000 Vietnam Vets on his hands. Ford was the first Prez to be lampooned on Saturday Night Live. Carter co-founded Habitat For Humanity. But I see how they'd consider William Harrison obscure: The fool wore no hat or coat to his inauguration in a winter storm, and died a month later, serving the shortest term in our history!

Most of these men weren’t obscure presidents.

I've been to The Hall of the Presidents in Disney World a couple of times in my life

Since when was Ben Franklin a president?

Especially when you consider Carter did more AFTER his presidency then he did in his one term. And the fact that if he survives the Georgia summer, come October he will be the first former U.S. President to reach 100 years old.

Monroe should be obscure because the so-called "Monroe Doctrine" was penned by his Secretary of State(the next president, John Quincy Adams) and he just stole the credit for it.

How can U.S. Grant be obscure when he's on the $50 bill?

theotishaynes, but not necessarily what they looked like. I know some of what each did, but don’t know their faces.

John W Shreve, that helped me with a few of them 😉

Jonathan Jobe, How quickly we forget the good men do. After taking office, LBJ won passage of a major tax cut, the Clean Air Act, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. After the 1964 election, Johnson passed even more sweeping reforms. The Social Security Amendments of 1965 created two government-run healthcare programs, Medicare and Medicaid. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B.

tbear, especially LBJ, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter

Anne Tisdell, Not McKinley. He completed a full term and was not assassinated until early in his second term.

I'm glad Hayes and Garfield were on separate questions. I cannot tell them apart.

Got them all. I knew almost all of them for sure. Educated guess on one or two. All were not obscure.

There were several that were NOT obscure! I guess they were freebies! 😊😊