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Public Persuasion

President's Name 2009
Final Score		 Category Ranking 2009
Overall Ranking
2009 2000
Franklin D. Roosevelt 95.1 1 1 3
Abraham Lincoln 91.5 2 3 1
Ronald Reagan 89.4 3 4 10
Theodore Roosevelt 89.2 4 2 4
George Washington 88.2 5 6 2
John F. Kennedy 85.0 6 5 6
Andrew Jackson 81.9 7 7 13
Thomas Jefferson 79.5 8 8 7
Woodrow Wilson 75.6 9 9 9
Bill Clinton 74.3 10 11 15
Dwight D. Eisenhower 66.6 11 10 8
James K. Polk 62.9 12 16 12
William McKinley 61.5 13 14 16
Lyndon B. Johnson 60.5 14 13 11
James Monroe 60.2 15 17 14
Harry S. Truman 59.3 16 12 5
Grover Cleveland 56.9 17 15 21
James Madison 55.2 18 18 20
Ulysses S. Grant 52.5 19 22 23
Zachary Taylor 45.8 20 26 29
Richard M. Nixon 45.6 21 28 27
Calvin Coolidge 44.8 22 20 26
Gerald R. Ford 44.7 23 31 22
Martin Van Buren 42.8 24 32 31
James A. Garfield 42.8 25 21 28
John Adams 42.7 26 24 17
William Henry Harrison 42.4 27 29 39
William Howard Taft 41.9 28 25 24
Benjamin Harrison 41.4 29 35 30
George H. W. Bush 40.8 30 19 18
John Quincy Adams 39.1 31 33 19
Warren G. Harding 39.1 32 27 38
Chester A. Arthur 38.7 33 34 32
Rutherford B. Hayes 37.4 34 23 33
Jimmy Carter 37.1 35 30 25
George W. Bush 34.8 36 NA 36
John Tyler 34.7 37 38 35
Herbert Hoover 32.1 38 37 34
Millard Fillmore 31.1 39 36 37
Franklin D. Pierce 30.0 40 39 40
Andrew Johnson 22.9 41 41 41
James Buchanan 21.1 42 40 42

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