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{{comic
 
| number    = 2393
 
| date      = December 2, 2020
 
| title    = Presidential Middle Names
 
| image    = presidential_middle_names.png
 
| titletext = The bottom of the list remains unchanged. Poor Rutherford Birchard Hayes.
 
}}
 
  
==Explanation==
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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. {{w|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].
 
  
The title text announces that {{w|Rutherford B. Hayes|Rutherford Birchard Hayes}}, the 19th president, remains at or near the bottom.  
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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, his nominator messed up his full name as Ulysses Simpson Grant, hence he is widely known as ''Ulysses S. Grant'' with the spurious middle "S". There is no evidence in the comic for how Randall’s list would deal with these cases.
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The humor is based on the sheer oddity of ranking people by the perceived prettiness of their obscure middle names.
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== Trivia ==
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{{w|Raphael Warnock|Raphael Gamaliel Warnock}} became a U.S. senator in January 2021, a hundred years and a week after former president Warren Gamaliel Harding left the Senate. Randall’s favourite presidential middle name is thus once again represented in government.
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==List of Presidents with middle names==
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(updated for 2021, as the comic)
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
|+ (Ordered by middle name)
 
! President
 
! Presidential order
 
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|James ABRAM Garfield
 
|20
 
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|Chester ALAN Arthur
 
|21
 
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|Lyndon BAINES Johnson
 
|36
 
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|Rutherford BIRCHARD Hayes
 
|19
 
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|John CALVIN Coolidge
 
|30
 
|-
 
|Herbert CLARK Hoover
 
|31
 
|-
 
|Dwight DAVID Eisenhower
 
|34
 
|-
 
|Franklin DELANO Roosevelt
 
|32
 
|-
 
|James EARL Carter
 
|39
 
|-
 
|John FITZGERALD Kennedy
 
|35
 
|-
 
|Warren GAMALIEL Harding
 
|29
 
|-
 
|Stephen GROVER Cleveland
 
|22, 24
 
|-
 
|William HENRY Harrison
 
|9
 
|-
 
|George HERBERT WALKER Bush
 
|41
 
|-
 
|William HOWARD Taft
 
|27
 
|-
 
|Barack HUSSEIN Obama
 
|44
 
|-
 
|William JEFFERSON Clinton
 
|42
 
|-
 
|Donald JOHN Trump
 
|45
 
|-
 
|James KNOX Polk
 
|11
 
|-
 
|Richard MILHOUS Nixon
 
|37
 
|-
 
|John QUINCY Adams
 
|6
 
|-
 
|Joe ROBINETTE Biden
 
|46
 
|-
 
|Gerald RUDOLPH Ford
 
|38
 
|-
 
|Harry S. Truman
 
|33
 
|-
 
|Hiram ULYSSES Grant (Ulysses SIMPSON Grant during his presidency)
 
|18
 
|-
 
|George WALKER Bush
 
|43
 
|-
 
|Ronald WILSON Reagan
 
|40
 
|-
 
|Thomas WOODROW Wilson
 
|28
 
|}
 
  
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|Franklin Pierce}}, {{w|James Buchanan}}, {{w|Abraham Lincoln}}, {{w|Andrew Johnson}}, {{w|Benjamin Harrison}}, {{w|William McKinley}}, and {{w|Theodore Roosevelt}}.
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==Transcript==
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:(Updated for 2021)
 
  
# Gamaliel (Warren Harding)
 
#<span style="color:red">Robinette (Joe Biden) '''(NEW!)'''</span>
 
#Delano (Franklin Roosevelt)<br>
 
  
{{comic discussion}}
 
  
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