The last non-partisan President?

[Wisconsin SC Race 2019]

With today's highly divisive political sphere, any sitting president will be a god to one party and a devil to the other. It didn't used to be that way. Who do you think was the Last president to be seen in a Non-Partisan way? I'll say HW Bush for the GOP and JFK for the Dems.

[OSR stands with Israel]

HW wasn’t seen as a non partisan President . Democrats went after him harder than they did to Reagan


I would say though IKE and really he is the only President maybe since Washington to be seen that way

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Very few of them really.  The ones that tried and succeeded at passing big changes had passionate oppositions.  There's never been a president that wasn't tied to the fate of a party since George Washington (even Washington had opposition - anti-administration in Congress).  Politics is (sadly) war and when you pick a team, you're on it and since we have a hostile two-party system, the other team is your enemy.

[Sumner 1868]

Not a single one. Even Washington could barely mask his obvious Federalist leanings.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

None

[Goldwater]

Maybe John Tyler, because neither side wanted him.

[Orser67]

Last non-partisan president: never.

Last president to be widely seen as nonpartisan: maybe Eisenhower, partly because a lot of people still thought of him primarily as a war hero, and partly because he really did make some nonpartisan moves (e.g. the appointment of Brennan).

[Former President tack50]

Maybe John Tyler, because neither side wanted him.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Least Partisan either HW or Jimmy

[RINO Tom]

Last non-partisan president: never.

Last president to be widely seen as nonpartisan: maybe Eisenhower, partly because a lot of people still thought of him primarily as a war hero, and partly because he really did make some nonpartisan moves (e.g. the appointment of Brennan).

[sparkey]

John Tyler is the correct answer. He would have been a partisan Jeffersonian in a different era, but became President during a time when the partisan divide was Jacksonians vs. Clayites. He was initially a Whig, because the Whigs were originally a coalition of Clayites and old time Jeffersonians, but the Whigs shifted to be effectively completely Clayite as he became President. He became a good example of how the parties would respond to a nonpartisan President. They don't both love the nonpartisan President, they both hate the nonpartisan President.

[Hammy]

John Tyler is the correct answer. He would have been a partisan Jeffersonian in a different era, but became President during a time when the partisan divide was Jacksonians vs. Clayites. He was initially a Whig, because the Whigs were originally a coalition of Clayites and old time Jeffersonians, but the Whigs shifted to be effectively completely Clayite as he became President. He became a good example of how the parties would respond to a nonpartisan President. They don't both love the nonpartisan President, they both hate the nonpartisan President.

Wasn't he even booted from the party on top of it?

[Dukakisite1988]

With today's highly divisive political sphere, any sitting president will be a god to one party and a devil to the other. It didn't used to be that way. Who do you think was the Last president to be seen in a Non-Partisan way? I'll say HW Bush for the GOP and JFK for the Dems.

Both of whom were actually about as partisan as it is possible to be. Partisanship and moderation are not the same thing.

[dw93]

Eisenhower, at least on the basis of Public perception. Based on agenda and policy, honestly the answer is post 1994 Clinton.

[Orser67]

John Tyler is the correct answer. He would have been a partisan Jeffersonian in a different era, but became President during a time when the partisan divide was Jacksonians vs. Clayites. He was initially a Whig, because the Whigs were originally a coalition of Clayites and old time Jeffersonians, but the Whigs shifted to be effectively completely Clayite as he became President. He became a good example of how the parties would respond to a nonpartisan President. They don't both love the nonpartisan President, they both hate the nonpartisan President.

Tyler is an interesting example, but I wouldn't say that he was nonpartisan. He tried to establish his own political party (he even had a convention that nominated him), and he eventually endorsed Polk for president.

[TDAS04]

George Washington (at least officially).  

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Zachary Taylor - basically drafted because the Whigs though it would be cool to have a war hero president, and he basically ran his whole presidency on gut instinct.


Eisenhower is an interesting example because his personality has managed to completely define the GOP of the 50s, in a manner that is somewhat ahistorical given that the GOP under Truman was extremely strident and right wing.

Also we really should define terms here: nonpartisan does not necessarily mean moderate or bipartisan.