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President's Name 2009
Final Score		 Category Ranking 2009
Overall Ranking
2009 2000
Franklin D. Roosevelt 81.3 1 2 3
Lyndon B. Johnson 79.7 2 1 11
Abraham Lincoln 78.8 3 4 1
George Washington 78.7 4 3 2
Thomas Jefferson 75.6 5 5 7
Dwight D. Eisenhower 66.6 6 7 8
Theodore Roosevelt 66.6 7 6 4
Ronald Reagan 65.4 8 8 10
James Monroe 64.7 9 10 13
William McKinley 62.3 10 9 16
James K. Polk 61.0 11 11 12
John F. Kennedy 60.2 12 13 6
Gerald R. Ford 57.3 13 12 22
Andrew Jackson 56.3 14 16 13
James Madison 55.9 15 17 20
Harry S. Truman 54.4 16 15 5
Woodrow Wilson 54.0 17 14 9
Calvin Coolidge 51.6 18 19 26
Bill Clinton 51.1 19 36 15
George H. W. Bush 50.2 20 20 18
Ulysses S. Grant 50.0 21 31 23
James A. Garfield 48.5 22 23 28
William Howard Taft 48.5 23 28 24
Martin Van Buren 48.2 24 25 31
Chester A. Arthur 47.8 25 27 32
Benjamin Harrison 47.5 26 24 30
Grover Cleveland 46.7 27 18 21
John Adams 46.6 28 22 17
Zachary Taylor 45.3 29 32 29
Herbert Hoover 42.7 30 34 34
John Quincy Adams 42.5 31 35 19
Jimmy Carter 41.8 32 33 25
Millard Fillmore 41.7 33 29 37
Warren G. Harding 41.3 34 26 38
Rutherford B. Hayes 41.1 35 21 33
George W. Bush 39.7 36 NA 36
Richard M. Nixon 39.2 37 30 27
William Henry Harrison 35.3 38 39 39
Franklin D. Pierce 34.0 39 37 40
John Tyler 30.6 40 38 35
James Buchanan 29.4 41 40 42
Andrew Johnson 14.8 42 41 41

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