It’s President’s Day. Who’s the most forgotten president?

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — It’s President’s Day, the national holiday where we are encouraged to honor those nearly 4 dozen men who occupied the White House. Somehow it’s morphed into a mattress and linen sale.

Regardless, nearly everyone can name the most famous of all presidents — Washington, Lincoln, FDR, JFK — along with those of our individual lifetimes. But who is the most forgotten US president? That is, which president do most people forget when naming the occupants of the Oval Office — not the most forgettable, which is much more than a semantic difference.

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The answer — which is supplied by BetVirginia based on a quiz website from Sporicle — finds the cluster of men who lived in the White House after the Civil War are all pretty forgettable.

But none moreso than Rutherford B. Hayes. If you said, “Who?,” well, you proved this point.

Hayes was a Republican who ran for President in the 1876 election against Democrat Samuel Tilden. It became the first truly contentious presidential election in US history.

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“The popular vote apparently was 4,300,000 for Tilden to 4,036,000 for Hayes,” according to WhiteHouse.gov. “Hayes’s election depended upon contested electoral votes in Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida. If all the disputed electoral votes went to Hayes, he would win; a single one would elect Tilden. Months of uncertainty followed. In January 1877 Congress established an Electoral Commission to decide the dispute. The commission, made up of eight Republicans and seven Democrats, determined all the contests in favor of Hayes by eight to seven. The final electoral vote: 185 to 184.”

Sound familiar?

The Ohioan was a Civil War veteran who was wounded in action, then was a congressman and governor before running for president. He did manage to keep one campaign promise: He said he would only serve one term as president, and he did.

He was followed in office by James Garfield, who became the second US president assassinated just a few months into his term. Vice President Chester A. Arthur became president — and again you may say, “Who?”

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As for other forgettable presidents, don’t get me started on Franklin Pierce.

You can find the whole list here. Read this while you’re buying a mattress.

And as for the cited source of this story, just remember Virginia is the birthplace of 8 presidents: William Henry Harrison, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Zachary Taylor, John Tyler, George Washington and Woodrow Wilson.

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