Abraham Lincoln, for instance, is widely regarded as one of the most influential presidents in U.S. history and has long been the subject of leadership studies worldwide. Numerous U.S. presidents have ...

Donald J. Trump appointed 234 federal judges in his first term. Trump, as is his wont, claims, with an inflated number, that he appointed a record number of judges. As the election closes in ...

(His first vice president, John Nance Garner III, unsuccessfully ran against him in 1940.) The vice presidency became an increasingly influential position, and younger politicians began to see the ...

Jimmy Carter, a peanut farmer and little-known Georgia governor who became the 39th president of the United ... later returned to the world stage as an influential human rights advocate and ...