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President's Name 2009
Final Score
Category Ranking 2009
Overall Ranking
2009 2000
George Washington 87.2 1 2 2
Abraham Lincoln 84.2 2 1 1
Franklin D. Roosevelt 77.3 3 3 3
Theodore Roosevelt 75.2 4 4 4
Dwight D. Eisenhower 74.8 5 7 8
Thomas Jefferson 69.3 6 8 7
Woodrow Wilson 68.4 7 6 9
James K. Polk 67.3 8 10 12
Harry S. Truman 66.9 9 5 5
Herbert Hoover 65.8 10 11 34
Lyndon B. Johnson 65.6 11 9 11
James Monroe 65.0 12 14 13
William McKinley 62.9 13 15 16
John F. Kennedy 62.8 14 13 6
John Quincy Adams 60.6 15 22 19
George H. W. Bush 59.3 16 16 18
William Howard Taft 59.2 17 20 24
Andrew Jackson 58.9 18 23 13
Grover Cleveland 58.4 19 12 21
Bill Clinton 58.0 20 21 15
Martin Van Buren 56.5 21 25 31
James Madison 55.4 22 18 20
Richard M. Nixon 53.0 23 17 27
Calvin Coolidge 53.0 24 28 26
John Adams 52.8 25 19 17
Gerald R. Ford 51.9 26 24 22
Rutherford B. Hayes 50.0 27 27 33
James A. Garfield 49.2 28 34 28
Jimmy Carter 48.9 29 26 25
Ronald Reagan 48.5 30 32 10
Benjamin Harrison 48.3 31 30 30
Chester A. Arthur 47.6 32 29 32
Zachary Taylor 47.6 33 31 29
John Tyler 42.4 34 33 35
Millard Fillmore 40.2 35 35 37
Ulysses S. Grant 36.3 36 39 23
George W. Bush 34.2 37 NA 36
James Buchanan 33.4 38 37 42
Franklin D. Pierce 32.8 39 38 40
Warren G. Harding 30.0 40 41 38
Andrew Johnson 27.0 41 40 41
William Henry Harrison 26.9 42 36 39

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