Donald Trump has become the unlucky 13th commander-in-chief to lose the presidency after a single four-year term.
Trump joins history’s bitter club of one-term presidents — those who were elected, served one full term, and tried and failed to be reelected.
The other 12 one-termers are a mixed list.
Among those regarded among the top one-term presidents on Ranker are John Adams, the second president, and George H. W. Bush, the 41st president.
James K. Polk, the 11th president, and William Howard Taft, the one-term president who went on to become the Chief Justice on the Supreme Court, are also high on the infamous list.
But more of the one-term presidents are remembered as complete failures.
James Buchanan, the 15th president, is considered the biggest disaster as he handed the issue of Civil War over to his successor Abraham Lincoln.
Herbert Hoover, the 31st president, handed a Great Depression to Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Franklin Pierce and Benjamin Harrison are both regarded as loathsome presidents.
Where will Trump rank?
Many historians already speculate Trump will end up near the bottom of the one-termers list.