(None of these TLs are connected)
5. King Louis XVII (1785-1833) - King of the French placed on the throne after Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. I know most people are going to argue that he was a victim of circumstances, especially since the French people were still supportive of republican reforms and what not. However, when the boy got older in 1824, he began the countryside purges, killing thousands of French peasants. And that was only the beginning of the nightmare: Louis later brought his purges into the cities, specifically Paris, effectively bringing about the Second Reign of Terror. The worse part about it was his motivation: revenge for killing his parents.
4. Pope Martin VI (1483-1546) - Elected with a 90% majority from Catholic churches throughout the Roman Empire, Pope Martin VI has a very equal good side and a bad side. His good side would include his ability to decentralize the Catholic Church and put faith in the hands of the believers, not the Priests, Monks, and Nuns. Although, none can reject he had a very dark bad side: his hatred for the Jewish people. Immediately after he was elected, the Pope initiated his doctrine of destroying Jew homes and burning synagogues by issuing the Edict of Worms which did just that. His intent was to make Europe a Catholic continent from Lisbon to the Urals. Millions of Jewish people living in the Empire either made their way south to Africa (Carthage has a 67% Jewish population today) or to the New World where they would make their homes in the Chesapeake Bay.
3. Prime Minister Samuel Parris (1653-1720) - He was only a child when Oliver Cromwell ended his reign as the first Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He began his career as a merchant for the "Puritan Republic" obtaining slaves from the Barbados and earning himself a name before going to Harvard to be educated as a minister. In 1692, he was elected to be Prime Minister. The very next year, strange circumstances caused him to be aware of witchcraft in Massachusetts. His reign was marked by the near genocide of good Puritan people whose only crime was being on land that Mr. Thomas Putnam wanted. He was ousted from power as a broken man. The sad part is that he tried nothing as far as stopping the trials, even after he recognized they were killing good Christian people. The trials continued well into the 18th Century when Prime Minister Israel Putnam (ironically, the descendant of Thomas Putnam) declared spectral evidence illegal.
2. President George B. McClellan (1826-1885) - General during the Civil War (1857-1861) he was elected President under the Democratic Party in 1864. Trading disputes with Japan rose up in 1866. President McClellan sent troops over to the island to "protect" American interests. McClellan's only good contribution to the war effort was that he struck a deal with the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Arapaho Indians, giving them their own autonomous territory in upper Nebraska in exchange for military service. Some 12,000 Natives joined the US Army and were sent to Japan. The warrior's primary purpose was to serve as Shock Troopers, breaking Japanese lines before American Regulars could finish the Battle. A hero to the Indians, McClellan proved no better a President as he did a General, he ended up losing countless battles to the Japanese shoguns before issuing a Scorched Earth Policy in Japan. Thousands of Japanese civilians died as Americans ravaged the countryside and went into the cities. In the election of 1868, McClellan was ousted from office by Republican Ulysses S. Grant, "He can get the war done!" Grant finished the war and installed Meiji as Emperor of the Japanese Empire, though one covered in ashes. McClellan was forever remembered as a President who simply lacked any ability whatsoever.
1. President John Wilkes Booth (1838-1885) - Who would've guessed that a popular actor of the 19h Century could've caused so much death and destruction? He started his career when President Douglas invaded Mexico in 1862, awarded him the Medal of Honor to celebrate Independence Day 1863, and then went on to write politically charged plays. 1868, he was elected Governor of Maryland, and then became Senator later. All the time he proclaimed there was a "Northern conspiracy" against the south, he was the one perpetuating a Southern conspiracy to start a Civil War. 1879, his conspiracy went full force, assassinating President Charles Adams and bringing the southern states together from Maryland to Coahuila. He declared himself President of the Confederate States of America, reinstituted slavery after President Douglas issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862, and decided to switch his policy to genocide after he realized the problem with black guerrillas roaming the countryside. Too bad he killed himself at the end, I would've liked to have seen President Hancock get a hold of him and hand him over to Booker Washington.