Presidential Middle Names
Presidential Middle Names
Prettiest Presidential Middle Names Official Rankings (Updated for 2021)

A list of what Randall perceives will be the prettiest presidential middle names after the inauguration on January 20, 2021. Joe Robinette Biden (46th president-elect) will take the second slot bumping previous second-place holder Franklin Delano Roosevelt , the 32nd president, back to third. Warren Gamaliel Harding , the 29th president, remains in first. Robinette is Biden's grandmother's maiden name .
The title text announces that Rutherford Birchard Hayes , the 19th president, remains at or near the bottom.
Overall, the ranking would not include every president, as many early presidents, such as George Washington and John Adams , lacked middle names. Some presidents were also more commonly known by their middle names as opposed to their first names, particularly John Calvin Coolidge , Stephen Grover Cleveland , Hiram Ulysses Grant , and Thomas 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, 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 their entire name: Gerald Ford was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr., officially changing his name in 1935. 
There is no evidence in the comic for how Randall’s list would deal with these cases.
The humor is based on the sheer oddity of ranking people by the perceived prettiness of their obscure middle names.
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.
(updated for 2021, as the comic)
The Presidents without middle names — almost all of those before Grant, and a few a bit later — were George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson , James Madison , James Monroe , Andrew Jackson , Martin Van Buren , John Tyler , Zachary Taylor , Millard Fillmore , Franklin Pierce , James Buchanan , Abraham Lincoln , Andrew Johnson , Benjamin Harrison , William McKinley , and Theodore Roosevelt .
Prettiest Presidential Middle Names Official Rankings (Updated for 2021)
