How Some US Presidents Rank According To IQ

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Franklin Pierce (estimated IQ: 147)

Miller Center

He was the 14th President of the US, but is ranked by historians as one of the worst ever to serve the country. His Fugitive Slave Act failed to stem intersectional conflict, setting the stage for Southern secession, and eventually, the American Civil War. He also led a failed attempt to acquire Cuba from Spain. He had a sad family life…his wife suffered from illnesses and depression much of her life. All their children died young, their last son gruesomely killed in a train accident before Pierce’s inauguration. Probably the reason why he was a heavy drinker. He eventually  died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1869.