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2009
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2009
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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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