Many high school yearbooks used to include lists of Senior Superlatives, like Best Dressed, Best Couple, Class Clown, and Most Likely to Succeed.
On this Presidents’ Day, we might have some fun applying our own inventory of Superlatives to graduates of the White House, assigning some of them tags that marked them as outstanding. To avoid exacerbating our current ill-tempered culture, the lists below contain only the presidents who have taken that final step from the graduation stage into the Great Beyond. Living presidents—George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Donald Trump—are out of bounds.
