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President's Name 2009
Final Score
Category Ranking 2009
Overall Ranking
2009 2000
George Washington 82.7 1 2 2
Abraham Lincoln 80.2 2 3 1
Bill Clinton 76.7 3 5 15
Theodore Roosevelt 73.6 4 4 4
Franklin D. Roosevelt 70.3 5 1 3
John F. Kennedy 70.2 6 9 6
Woodrow Wilson 68.8 7 6 9
Dwight D. Eisenhower 63.9 8 8 8
Thomas Jefferson 63.8 9 13 7
Harry S. Truman 63.5 10 7 5
Lyndon B. Johnson 59.2 11 12 11
James Monroe 58.0 12 20 13
William McKinley 58.0 13 14 16
James K. Polk 57.9 14 10 12
John Adams 57.2 15 11 17
John Quincy Adams 56.2 16 16 19
Ronald Reagan 54.9 17 21 10
James Madison 53.1 18 15 20
William Howard Taft 51.1 19 18 24
Calvin Coolidge 50.2 20 26 26
Grover Cleveland 49.4 21 19 21
Richard M. Nixon 47.2 22 17 27
George H. W. Bush 46.9 23 23 18
Zachary Taylor 43.8 24 29 29
Rutherford B. Hayes 43.8 25 22 33
Gerald R. Ford 43.6 26 25 22
Chester A. Arthur 43.6 27 27 32
Benjamin Harrison 43.4 28 28 30
Andrew Jackson 43.2 29 24 13
James A. Garfield 43.2 30 30 28
John Tyler 39.5 31 31 35
Ulysses S. Grant 38.4 32 37 23
Martin Van Buren 37.5 33 34 31
Millard Fillmore 36.8 34 32 37
Jimmy Carter 36.2 35 33 25
Warren G. Harding 34.1 36 36 38
Andrew Johnson 33.9 37 35 41
Franklin D. Pierce 33.3 38 38 40
William Henry Harrison 27.9 39 39 39
George W. Bush 25.3 40 NA 36
Herbert Hoover 24.9 41 41 34
James Buchanan 24.7 42 40 42

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