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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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