Martin Van Buren
The first professional politician to reach the presidency — Van Buren invented the modern political party machine with New York's Albany Regency and then watched his presidency collapse under the Panic of 1837, a financial crisis he inherited from Jackson.
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Woodrow Wilson
#2President / Democrat — Staunton, Virginia · 1913–1921
The scholar-president who won WWI and lost the peace — Wilson's 14 Points and League of Nations vision shaped the international order for a century, but the Senate rejected the League and Wilson had a stroke trying to sell it to the public. He also re-segregated the federal workforce.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#3President / Democrat — Stonewall, Texas · 1963–1969
The most legislatively productive president since FDR — in a single term, LBJ passed the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, the Higher Education Act, and the most sweeping social legislation in American history. Vietnam destroyed him and his presidency, and he knew it.