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President's Name
2009
Final Score
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2009
Overall Ranking
2009
2000
Abraham Lincoln
97.3
1
1
1
Franklin D. Roosevelt
92.3
2
2
3
George Washington
92.7
3
3
2
Woodrow Wilson
86.6
4
5
9
Theodore Roosevelt
85.7
5
4
4
Thomas Jefferson
84.9
6
6
7
Ronald Reagan
82.2
7
8
10
John F. Kennedy
78.4
8
9
6
Andrew Jackson
76.9
9
12
13
James K. Polk
75.7
10
10
12
Lyndon B. Johnson
74.4
11
11
11
Harry S. Truman
73.0
12
7
5
William McKinley
62.9
13
17
16
James Monroe
60.0
14
14
13
Bill Clinton
57.4
15
22
15
Dwight D. Eisenhower
56.9
16
18
8
John Quincy Adams
56.3
17
13
19
James Madison
54.7
18
15
20
Grover Cleveland
54.3
19
16
21
John Adams
53.2
20
19
17
Jimmy Carter
46.2
21
20
25
Richard M. Nixon
45.2
22
21
27
Ulysses S. Grant
45.2
23
36
23
Zachary Taylor
45.1
24
25
29
George W. Bush
44.2
25
NA
36
Benjamin Harrison
42.1
26
30
30
Calvin Coolidge
41.1
27
33
26
Martin Van Buren
40.8
28
27
31
James A. Garfield
40.4
29
24
28
Rutherford B. Hayes
39.6
30
23
33
William Howard Taft
39.4
31
26
24
William Henry Harrison
39.4
32
35
39
Chester A. Arthur
38.7
33
29
32
George H. W. Bush
38.1
34
28
18
John Tyler
37.8
35
34
35
Gerald R. Ford
37.2
36
31
22
Millard Fillmore
32.8
37
32
37
Herbert Hoover
32.6
38
37
34
Warren G. Harding
30.5
39
38
38
Franklin D. Pierce
25.6
40
40
40
Andrew Johnson
23.0
41
39
41
James Buchanan
17.7
42
41
42
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