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Historian Survey Results Category

Crisis Leadership

President's Name 2009
Final Score
Category Ranking 2009
Overall Ranking
2009 2000
Abraham Lincoln 97.6 1 1 1
Franklin D. Roosevelt 92.5 2 2 3
George Washington 92.5 3 3 2
Harry S. Truman 83.0 4 4 5
Theodore Roosevelt 80.9 5 5 4
Andrew Jackson 74.9 6 7 13
Dwight D. Eisenhower 73.6 7 10 8
John F. Kennedy 73.3 8 8 6
Woodrow Wilson 73.3 9 6 9
James K. Polk 70.2 10 9 12
George H. W. Bush 69.7 11 11 18
Ronald Reagan 69.4 12 15 10
Thomas Jefferson 66.0 13 12 7
William McKinley 64.0 14 14 16
Bill Clinton 60.5 15 20 15
James Monroe 57.9 16 18 13
John Adams 54.7 17 13 17
Lyndon B. Johnson 54.4 18 17 11
Gerald R. Ford 54.1 19 22 22
Grover Cleveland 52.7 20 16 21
Ulysses S. Grant 50.4 21 30 23
James Madison 49.5 22 19 20
Richard M. Nixon 48.6 23 23 27
John Quincy Adams 47.5 24 21 19
George W. Bush 45.2 25 NA 36
Zachary Taylor 44.1 26 24 29
William Howard Taft 42.5 27 25 24
James A. Garfield 42.2 28 32 28
Chester A. Arthur 41.8 29 29 32
Benjamin Harrison 41.4 30 33 30
Martin Van Buren 40.8 31 34 31
Calvin Coolidge 40.6 32 31 26
Rutherford B. Hayes 38.5 33 26 33
John Tyler 38.3 34 35 35
Jimmy Carter 37.7 35 28 25
Millard Fillmore 37.6 36 27 37
Warren G. Harding 28.2 37 38 38
William Henry Harrison 26.9 38 36 39
Herbert Hoover 26.0 39 39 34
Andrew Johnson 24.9 40 37 41
Franklin D. Pierce 24.5 41 40 40
James Buchanan 16.3 42 41 42

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