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President's Name
2009
Final Score
Category Ranking
2009
Overall Ranking
2009
2000
George Washington
87.2
1
2
2
Franklin D. Roosevelt
86.2
2
1
3
Abraham Lincoln
83.6
3
4
1
Harry S. Truman
80.8
4
5
5
Theodore Roosevelt
80.3
5
3
4
Dwight D. Eisenhower
76.2
6
9
8
James Monroe
75.4
7
7
13
Ronald Reagan
75.1
8
14
10
George H. W. Bush
75.0
9
12
18
Woodrow Wilson
70.8
10
6
9
Richard M. Nixon
70.6
11
8
27
John Quincy Adams
68.8
12
11
19
John F. Kennedy
66.7
13
13
6
John Adams
66.1
14
10
17
William McKinley
64.5
15
17
16
Bill Clinton
64.1
16
21
15
James K. Polk
63.6
17
15
12
Thomas Jefferson
63.0
18
16
7
William Howard Taft
55.0
19
22
24
Andrew Jackson
54.7
20
19
13
Ulysses S. Grant
54.1
21
33
23
Grover Cleveland
53.9
22
18
21
Gerald R. Ford
52.2
23
23
22
John Tyler
50.2
24
31
35
Herbert Hoover
50.2
25
25
34
Martin Van Buren
50.0
26
28
31
Jimmy Carter
49.0
27
20
25
Benjamin Harrison
47.8
28
29
30
Calvin Coolidge
46.9
29
30
26
Rutherford B. Hayes
45.3
30
26
33
James Madison
44.7
31
24
20
James A. Garfield
43.5
32
38
28
Zachary Taylor
43.3
33
27
29
Chester A. Arthur
42.6
34
34
32
Lyndon B. Johnson
41.9
35
36
11
Andrew Johnson
40.2
36
37
41
Warren G. Harding
38.8
37
35
38
Millard Fillmore
38.1
38
32
37
Franklin D. Pierce
33.4
39
39
40
James Buchanan
31.5
40
40
42
George W. Bush
30.7
41
NA
36
William Henry Harrison
29.2
42
41
39
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