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With some knowledge of US history under my belt, I feel like Benjamin Harrison is probably the best answer - he's not only obscure but he doesn't really have any good reason to be not-obscure. The most notable thing Harrison probably did was add more states to the union than any other president in a naked power grab for the Republican party, thanks Benjamin Harrison, real swell of you to give us four senators from the Dakotas. Other than that, while he does hail from an era of US history that I think is pretty fucking interesting, you wouldn't really know of anything else that Harrison's done and he didn't preside over any prevailing historic events aside from an economic collapse that kind of got overshadowed by one that happened 30 years later. He's most well known for being in a Grover Cleveland sandwich. You don't want to be in a Grover Cleveland sandwich.

That run up of presidents before Lincoln may be obscure, but considering that was all pre-Civil War stuff it's actually really important and should probably be known.