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President's Name 2009
Final Score
Category Ranking 2009
Overall Ranking
2009 2000
George Washington 87.2 1 2 2
Franklin D. Roosevelt 86.2 2 1 3
Abraham Lincoln 83.6 3 4 1
Harry S. Truman 80.8 4 5 5
Theodore Roosevelt 80.3 5 3 4
Dwight D. Eisenhower 76.2 6 9 8
James Monroe 75.4 7 7 13
Ronald Reagan 75.1 8 14 10
George H. W. Bush 75.0 9 12 18
Woodrow Wilson 70.8 10 6 9
Richard M. Nixon 70.6 11 8 27
John Quincy Adams 68.8 12 11 19
John F. Kennedy 66.7 13 13 6
John Adams 66.1 14 10 17
William McKinley 64.5 15 17 16
Bill Clinton 64.1 16 21 15
James K. Polk 63.6 17 15 12
Thomas Jefferson 63.0 18 16 7
William Howard Taft 55.0 19 22 24
Andrew Jackson 54.7 20 19 13
Ulysses S. Grant 54.1 21 33 23
Grover Cleveland 53.9 22 18 21
Gerald R. Ford 52.2 23 23 22
John Tyler 50.2 24 31 35
Herbert Hoover 50.2 25 25 34
Martin Van Buren 50.0 26 28 31
Jimmy Carter 49.0 27 20 25
Benjamin Harrison 47.8 28 29 30
Calvin Coolidge 46.9 29 30 26
Rutherford B. Hayes 45.3 30 26 33
James Madison 44.7 31 24 20
James A. Garfield 43.5 32 38 28
Zachary Taylor 43.3 33 27 29
Chester A. Arthur 42.6 34 34 32
Lyndon B. Johnson 41.9 35 36 11
Andrew Johnson 40.2 36 37 41
Warren G. Harding 38.8 37 35 38
Millard Fillmore 38.1 38 32 37
Franklin D. Pierce 33.4 39 39 40
James Buchanan 31.5 40 40 42
George W. Bush 30.7 41 NA 36
William Henry Harrison 29.2 42 41 39

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