The 10 Most Attractive United States Presidents
10. Gerald Ford Did you know Ford was so handsome in his youth, he was a model? He even posed for the cover of Cosmo in 1942! Can you imagine the direction the free world might have taken if he'd committed to this line of work?
9. James A. Garfield The eyes have it! ???? Garfield's peepers were so piercing, they could gaze into your soul. There's also something attractive about the fact that Garfield never actually chose to be president, but just happened to sort of fall into the role: when delegates at the 1880 Republican National Convention couldn't agree on any candidates, they picked Garfield himself as a compromise. He ended up winning the election. We love a reluctant world leader.
8. Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan was handsome, he was charismatic, and, according to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum website, his favorite comic strip was Peanuts. These are three of the main things I, personally, look for in a leader.
7. Teddy Roosevelt With that mustache and those little glasses? Come on. Teddy was not only a skilled boxer and the first president to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, but he was also known to skinny-dip in the Potomac River now and then. Consider our loins aflame. We're also not sure you can have Robin Williams play you in a movie and not make this list.
6. Franklin Delano Roosevelt "He was the hot one, with the polio," to quote Elliot Page in Juno. We'd make a "new deal" with this guy, if you know what we mean. FDR was also an animal lover, and he enjoyed stamp-collecting, hot dogs, and sailing (put that in your Hinge bio and see what happens).
5. Abe Lincoln Also known as "Honest Babe" ???? With his craggy face, gangly body, and what Walt Whitman once described as a "doughnut complexion," it'd be too easy to say Lincoln made the list just because he's tall and not a racist (and if we're being honest, he's almost too tall at 6-foot-4). That's all true, but Lincoln really makes the list for that je ne sais quoi hotness that led artist James Lee Hansen to create a limestone sculpture of young, half-naked Abe in 1939. Young Lincoln stands in all his shirtless glory in the Spring Street Courthouse in LA.
4. John F. Kennedy Nixon really didn't stand a chance (sorry to that man). JFK is widely considered one of the handsomest—if not the handsomest—presidents we've ever had. The designation is hard to argue against: the man was good-looking, and he’s still the youngest person ever elected president.
3. Ulysses S. Grant An unsung hot American hero. When it comes to "attractive presidents," we all know Obama and JFK are going to make the list. They're almost not even worth mentioning. Gruff Union General Ulysses S. Grant, on the other hand? A true stud, and an underrated one at that.
2. Barack Obama JFK and Barack Obama are two presidents who ran on a campaign of sex appeal (talk about a hot button issue). There were countless articles written about Obama's handsomeness when he was president—and even now, years after he left office, his gravitas, chill, and great taste in books and music still solidify his place on this list.
1. Franklin Pierce The Himbo-in-Chief. Many people consider Pierce the worst president in history (or one of the worst…). Franklin Pierce is barely remembered, and when he is, it's for enforcing the pro-slavery Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Heinous politics aside…at least he was good-looking.
Honorable Mentions
1. Rutherford B. Hayes The "B" stands for beautiful. Young Hayes was waifish, pretty, and deeply Poe-coded.
2. Joe Biden Admittedly, Leslie Knope's infatuation with Joe Biden in Parks and Rec always had us scratching our heads. But tbh, young Joe was quite a looker.
3. Richard M. Nixon Hear us out. Yes, there's the whole "Watergate" thing, if you care about that kind of stuff. But young Nixon was actually a very handsome fella. And sporty, too!
4. George W. Bush What can we say, Dubya had charisma and a cute face. He's also a gifted painter, and artistic skills are nothing if not attractive.
5. Calvin Coolidge The strong and silent type (minus the "strong" part). No matter his age, Silent Cal always managed to seem both wise beyond his years and eternally youthful, like a cute, thoughtful elf.
15 Interesting Presidential Facts
You might have taken U.S. History in school, but I bet you didn’t know these fun facts about America’s presidential past! Did you know that… …Elvis hand-wrote Richard Nixon a 6-page letter, which he then hand-delivered to the White House? …the "S" in Harry S Truman's name doesn't stand for anything? His parents literally gave him the middle name "S." …the "S" in Ulysses S. Grant doesn't stand for anything, either? His real name was Hiram Ulysses Grant, but it was changed as a result of a clerical error when he started Military Academy at West Point. We don't know for sure where the "S" came from. …George Washington's teeth were not made of wood? They were made of human and cow teeth, metal, and ivory. …James Madison was a short king? The fourth prez clocked in at only five-foot-four and weighed about a hundred pounds, making him the tiniest U. S. president so far. …William McKinley always wore a red carnation, for luck? The one time he wasn't wearing a red carnation, he was assassinated. …prior to being on the ballot himself, Zachary Tyler never voted in an election? …some scholars suspect James Buchanan was secretly gay? The lifelong bachelor was extremely close to his eventual Vice President William Rufus King—the two even lived together for more than a decade, and they were rarely seen out of each other's company. Andrew Jackson even referred to them as "Miss Nancy" and "Aunt Fancy." …Franklin Pierce is the only president who didn't use the Bible to take his oath of office? He had lost his eleven-year-old son in a tragic accident two months before being sworn in. Pierce believed the loss was God's way of punishing him for his sins. …John Tyler had more children than any other president? He had a total of fifteen children—eight with his first wife, Letitia Christian, and seven with his second wife, Julia Gardiner. As of 2023, he still has one living grandchild. …Abraham Lincoln almost joined the Donner Party on their journey westward in 1846? At wife Mary Todd's urging, though, Abe stayed behind. …Rutherford B. Hayes didn't serve alcohol at the White House? Instead, his wife, Lucy, served lemonade, which earned her the nickname "Lemonade Lucy." …Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died within an hour of each other on July 4, 1826—the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence? …John Quincy Adams, like Teddy Roosevelt, was known to skinny-dip in the Potomac River? It was while he was enjoying a dip that journalist Anne Royall stole his clothes and wouldn't return them until he agreed to an interview, making her the first woman to interview a president. …William Henry Harrison delivered the longest inaugural speech of any president? And he did it without a hat or coat on a cold March day, causing him to develop pneumonia. He died one month later on April 4, 1841, and became the first president to die in office. Think you're a presidential trivia expert? Take our quiz to see if you can list all of the presidents in chronological order!
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