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President's Name 2009
Final Score
Category Ranking 2009
Overall Ranking
2009 2000
Abraham Lincoln 97.3 1 1 1
Franklin D. Roosevelt 92.3 2 2 3
George Washington 92.7 3 3 2
Woodrow Wilson 86.6 4 5 9
Theodore Roosevelt 85.7 5 4 4
Thomas Jefferson 84.9 6 6 7
Ronald Reagan 82.2 7 8 10
John F. Kennedy 78.4 8 9 6
Andrew Jackson 76.9 9 12 13
James K. Polk 75.7 10 10 12
Lyndon B. Johnson 74.4 11 11 11
Harry S. Truman 73.0 12 7 5
William McKinley 62.9 13 17 16
James Monroe 60.0 14 14 13
Bill Clinton 57.4 15 22 15
Dwight D. Eisenhower 56.9 16 18 8
John Quincy Adams 56.3 17 13 19
James Madison 54.7 18 15 20
Grover Cleveland 54.3 19 16 21
John Adams 53.2 20 19 17
Jimmy Carter 46.2 21 20 25
Richard M. Nixon 45.2 22 21 27
Ulysses S. Grant 45.2 23 36 23
Zachary Taylor 45.1 24 25 29
George W. Bush 44.2 25 NA 36
Benjamin Harrison 42.1 26 30 30
Calvin Coolidge 41.1 27 33 26
Martin Van Buren 40.8 28 27 31
James A. Garfield 40.4 29 24 28
Rutherford B. Hayes 39.6 30 23 33
William Howard Taft 39.4 31 26 24
William Henry Harrison 39.4 32 35 39
Chester A. Arthur 38.7 33 29 32
George H. W. Bush 38.1 34 28 18
John Tyler 37.8 35 34 35
Gerald R. Ford 37.2 36 31 22
Millard Fillmore 32.8 37 32 37
Herbert Hoover 32.6 38 37 34
Warren G. Harding 30.5 39 38 38
Franklin D. Pierce 25.6 40 40 40
Andrew Johnson 23.0 41 39 41
James Buchanan 17.7 42 41 42

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