House Of Cards: Ranking All The Main Characters From Worst To Best
7. Tom Hammerschmidt
Tom Hammerschmidt seemed to be the only character other than Claire capable at one time of taking down Frank Underwood, there were so many who fought as hard as they could against Frank but in the end came up short.
This newspaper editor was tenacious in hunting for the truth that Lucas Goodwin has started because of the death of Zoe Barnes and upon his meeting with Frank Underwood, he managed to seriously lay gloves upon him. Everything that Hammerschmidt had uncovered was true and he was one of the very few people who knew what Frank & Claire were.
He was entertaining to the last, always pushing harder and harder to find what needed to be found and died in that pursuit. He was killed at the behest of Claire Underwood for what he knew, like a few others, but as a character, he went from being a stick to the facts type - to a full-blown conspiracy hunter against the Underwood's, many of which were true.