Nicknames for the President of the United States
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Chester Arthur, 21st President of the United States, and referred to as "Walrus" by children who were fascinated by his whiskers
He was born Hyram Ulysses Grant, but a misspelling of his name at West Point gave him the name Ulysses S. Grant; his "government-issued" initials would cause his new friends at the academy to call him "Sam".
Theodore Roosevelt lived in the Badlands of North Dakota when a cattleman made the mistake of calling him "four eyes"; the physically-powerful Roosevelt would immediately teach him not to do it again.
Nicknames for Presidents of the United States have been bestowed on these men since George Washington. Some are childhood nicknames - such as "Dutch" for Ronald Reagan - while others are political or military names given prior to reaching the presidency. Others are rather disparaging, and meant to insult the person in some degree by critics and detractors.
| Name | Nickname |
|---|---|
| George Washington | The Father of His Country; American Cincinnatus |
| John Adams | Atlas of Independence; The Duke of Braintree |
| Thomas Jefferson | Sage of Monticello; Mad Tom; The Apostle of Democracy |
| James Madison | Sage of Montpelier |
| James Monroe | The Era of Good Feelings President |
| John Quincy Adams | Old Man Eloquent |
| Andrew Jackson | Old Hickory; King Andrew; The Hero of New Orleans |
| Martin Van Buren | Old Kinderhook; The American Talleyrand; The Careful Dutchman |
| William Henry Harrison | Tippecanoe |
| John Tyler | His Accidency |
| James Knox Polk | Young Hickory; Napoleon of the Stump |
| Zachary Taylor | Old Rough and Ready |
| Millard Filmore | The American Louis Philippe |
| Franklin Pierce | Handsome Frank; Young Hickory of the Granite Hills |
| James Buchanan | The Bachelor President; Old Buck; Ten-Cent Jimmy |
| Abraham Lincoln | The Rail-Splitter; The Great Emancipator; Honest Abe |
| Andrew Johnson | The Tennessee Tailor |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Unconditional Surrender Grant; Hero of Appomattox; Sam |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | Granny Hayes; His Fraudulency; Old 8 to 7 |
| James A. Garfield | Boatman Jim |
| Chester A. Arthur | Prince Arthur; Gentleman Boss; Walrus |
| Grover Cleveland | The Beast of Buffalo; His Obstinacy |
| Benjamin Harrison | Kid Gloves Harrison; The Human Iceberg |
| William McKinley | Idol of Ohio; The Major |
| Theodore Roosevelt | The Rough Rider; Trust Buster; The Lion; Old Four Eyes; Teddy; TR |
| William Taft | Big Chief; Old Bill |
| Woodrow Wilson | The Schoolmaster |
| Warren G. Harding | Wobbly Warren |
| Calvin Coolidge | Silent Cal; Sphinx of the Potomac |
| Herbert Hoover | The Chief; The Great Engineer |
| Franklin Roosevelt | The New Dealer; FDR |
| Harry S. Truman | Give 'Em Hell Harry |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Ike |
| John F. Kennedy | Jack; JFK; King of Camelot |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | LBJ; Landslide Lyndon; Uncle Cornpone |
| Richard Nixon | Tricky Dick; Gloomy Gus |
| Gerald R. Ford | Jerry |
| James E. Carter | Jimmy; President Malaise |
| Ronald Reagan | The Gipper; The Great Communicator; Dutch |
| George H. W. Bush | Bush 41; Papa Bush; Poppy; Bush the Elder |
| Bill Clinton | Slick Willie; Bubba; The First Black President; Comeback Kid |
| George W. Bush | Dubya; Bush 43; Bush II |
| Barack Obama | Barry; Manchild; The First Anti-American President; The Affirmative Action President |
