Franklin Pierce – 147.4
Franklin Pierce had plenty of baggage that came hand-in-hand with his political views. For one, he once referred to the abolitionist movement “a fundamental threat to the unity of the nation”. Franklin Pierce is also the same president who signed the Kansas-Nebraska act, which allowed each state to decide for themselves what their opinion on slavery was.
Franklin Pierce
John Tyler – 148
After William Henry Harrison passed away, John Tyler took over the presidency. Did you know that John Tyler was the first president to serve in office who was not formally elected? Instead of deciding for the states how slavery should be handled, as well as multiple other issues, he let each state decide. This was a very passive approach to things as serious as slavery, which made many people in congress despise him. His IQ was 148, so there was no question whether he was intelligent or not, but many felt that he could have handled things differently. He was the first president to have an attempted impeachment against him, though it did not go through.
John Tyler