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| − | | date = December 2, 2020 | + | | date = December 3, 2020 |
| | | title = Presidential Middle Names | | | title = Presidential Middle Names |
| | | image = presidential_middle_names.png | | | image = presidential_middle_names.png |
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| − | A list of what Randall perceives will be the prettiest presidential {{w|middle names}} after the inauguration on January 20, 2021. [[Joe Biden|Joe Robinette Biden]] (46th president-elect) will take the second slot bumping previous second-place holder {{w|Franklin D. Roosevelt|Franklin Delano Roosevelt}}, the 32nd president, back to third. {{w|Warren G. Harding|Warren Gamaliel Harding}}, the 29th president, remains in first. Robinette is Biden's [https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2008/08/joe_bidens_middle_name_is_robi.html grandmother's maiden name]. | + | {{incomplete|Created by a BOT. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} |
| | + | A list of what Randall perceives to be the prettiest presidential middle names. President-elect Joe Robinette Biden (46th president-elect) has taken the second slot. Previous second-place holder {{w|Franklin D. Roosevelt|Franklin Delano Roosevelt}}, the 32nd president, has been bumped back to third. {{w|Warren G. Harding|Warren Gamaliel Harding}}, the 29th president, remains in first. |
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| − | Overall, the ranking would not include every president, as many early presidents, such as {{w|George Washington}} and {{w|John Adams}}, lacked middle names. Some presidents were also more commonly known by their middle names as opposed to their first names, particularly John {{w|Calvin Coolidge}}, Stephen {{w|Grover Cleveland}}, Hiram {{w|Ulysses Grant}}, and Thomas {{w|Woodrow Wilson}}. In the case of Grant, the Senator who enrolled him at West Point messed up his full name as Ulysses Simpson Grant, hence he is widely known as ''Ulysses S. Grant'' with the spurious middle "S". Also, {{w|Harry S Truman}}'s middle name was just the letter S and was not an initial of a name; Truman's parents could not agree on which of his grandfathers' names to give him, but luckily they both started with the letter. One president has even changed his entire name: {{w|Gerald Ford}} was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr., officially changing his name in 1935. The humor is based on the sheer oddity of ranking people by the perceived prettiness of their obscure middle names. There is no evidence in the comic for how Randall’s list would deal with these cases.
| + | The title text announces that {{w|Rutherford B. Hayes|Rutherford Birchard Hayes}}, the 19th president, remains dead last out of a field of 45. (Stephan Cleveland was both the 22nd and 24th presidents, and had the same middle name - Grover, by which he was known - for both terms.) |
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| − | The title text announces that {{w|Rutherford B. Hayes|Rutherford Birchard Hayes}}, the 19th president, remains at or near the bottom.
| + | ==Transcript== |
| | + | {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} |
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| − | ===List of Presidents with middle names===
| + | <div style="text-align: center;">Prettiest<br> |
| − | (updated for 2021, as the comic)
| + | Presidential Middle Names<br> |
| − | {| class="wikitable"
| + | Official Rankings<br> |
| − | |+ (Ordered by middle name)
| + | (Updated for 2021) |
| − | ! President
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| − | ! Presidential order
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| − | |James ABRAM Garfield
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| − | |20
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| − | |-
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| − | |Chester ALAN Arthur
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| − | |21
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| − | |-
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| − | |Lyndon BAINES Johnson
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| − | |36
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| − | |-
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| − | |Rutherford BIRCHARD Hayes
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| − | |19
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| − | |-
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| − | |John CALVIN Coolidge
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| − | |30
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| − | |-
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| − | |Herbert CLARK Hoover
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| − | |31
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| − | |-
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| − | |Dwight DAVID Eisenhower
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| − | |34
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| − | |-
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| − | |Franklin DELANO Roosevelt
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| − | |32
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| − | |-
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| − | |James ("Jimmy") EARL Carter
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| − | |39
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| − | |-
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| − | |John ("Jack") FITZGERALD Kennedy
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| − | |35
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| − | |-
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| − | |Warren GAMALIEL Harding
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| − | |29
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| − | |-
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| − | |Stephen GROVER Cleveland
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| − | |22, 24
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| − | |-
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| − | |William HENRY Harrison
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| − | |9
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| − | |-
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| − | |George HERBERT WALKER Bush
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| − | |41
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| − | |-
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| − | |William HOWARD Taft
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| − | |27
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| − | |-
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| − | |Barack HUSSEIN Obama
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| − | |44
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| − | |-
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| − | |William JEFFERSON Clinton
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| − | |42
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| − | |-
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| − | |Donald JOHN Trump
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| − | |45
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| − | |-
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| − | |Franklin KENDRICK Pierce
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| − | |14
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| − | |-
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| − | |James KNOX Polk
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| − | |11
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| − | |-
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| − | |Richard MILHOUS Nixon
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| − | |37
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| − | |-
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| − | |John QUINCY Adams
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| − | |6
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| − | |-
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| − | |Joseph ("Joe") ROBINETTE Biden
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| − | |46
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| − | |-
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| − | |Gerald RUDOLPH Ford
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| − | |38
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| − | |-
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| − | |Harry S. Truman
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| − | |33
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| − | |Hiram ULYSSES Grant (Ulysses SIMPSON Grant during his presidency)
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| − | |18
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| − | |George WALKER Bush
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| − | |43
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| − | |Ronald WILSON Reagan
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| − | |40
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| − | |-
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| − | |Thomas WOODROW Wilson
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| − | |28
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| − | |}
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| − | The Presidents without middle names — almost all of those before Grant, and a few a bit later — were George Washington, John Adams, {{w|Thomas Jefferson}}, {{w|James Madison}}, {{w|James Monroe}}, {{w|Andrew Jackson}}, {{w|Martin Van Buren}}, {{w|John Tyler}}, {{w|Zachary Taylor}}, {{w|Millard Fillmore}}, {{w|James Buchanan}}, {{w|Abraham Lincoln}}, {{w|Andrew Johnson}}, {{w|Benjamin Harrison}}, {{w|William McKinley}}, and {{w|Theodore Roosevelt}}.
| + | 1. Gamaliel (Warren Harding)<br> |
| − | | + | 2. Robinette (Joe Biden) '''(NEW!)'''<br> |
| − | ==Transcript==
| + | 3. Delano (Franklin Rooselvelt)<br> |
| − | :<big>Prettiest</big>
| + | </div> |
| − | :Presidential Middle Names Official Rankings
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| − | :(Updated for 2021)
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| − | # Gamaliel (Warren Harding)
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| − | #<span style="color:red">Robinette (Joe Biden) '''(NEW!)'''</span>
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| − | #Delano (Franklin Roosevelt)<br>
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| − | [[Category:Rankings]]
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