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Economic Management

President's Name	2017 Final Scores	Category Rankings			2017 Overall Rankings
President's Name	2017 Final Scores	2017	2009	2000	2017 Overall Rankings
George Washington	84.1	1	1	2	2
Abraham Lincoln	80.9	2	2	3	1
William J. Clinton	78.6	3	3	5	15
Theodore Roosevelt	76.2	4	4	4	4
Franklin D. Roosevelt	75.7	5	5	1	3
Dwight D. Eisenhower	71.5	6	8	8	5
John F. Kennedy	70.7	7	6	9	8
Barack Obama	69.6	8	NA	NA	12
Woodrow Wilson	69.5	9	7	6	11
Harry S. Truman	68.8	10	10	7	6
William McKinley	64.3	11	13	14	16
Lyndon B. Johnson	63.9	12	11	12	10
Thomas Jefferson	63.3	13	9	13	7
James K. Polk	63.2	14	14	10	14
John Adams	62.5	15	15	11	19
Ronald Reagan	60.9	16	17	21	9
John Quincy Adams	58.6	17	16	16	21
James Monroe	58.0	18	12	20	13
James Madison	57.9	19	18	15	17
William Howard Taft	55.2	20	19	18	24
George H. W. Bush	52.9	21	23	23	20
Calvin Coolidge	52.7	22	20	26	27
Richard M. Nixon	52.6	23	22	17	28
Grover Cleveland	50.1	24	21	19	23
Rutherford B. Hayes	47.6	25	25	22	32
Andrew Jackson	47.6	26	29	24	18
Ulysses S. Grant	47.1	27	32	37	22
Zachary Taylor	46.1	28	24	29	31
James A. Garfield	46.1	29	30	30	29
Gerald R. Ford	44.9	30	26	25	25
Chester A. Arthur	43.8	31	27	27	35
Benjamin Harrison	43.3	32	28	28	30
James Earl Carter Jr.	41.5	33	35	33	26
Millard Fillmore	40.8	34	34	32	37
Warren G. Harding	40.6	35	36	36	40
George W. Bush	38.2	36	40	NA	33
Andrew Johnson	38.0	37	37	35	42
William Henry Harrison	37.8	38	39	39	38
John Tyler	37.7	39	31	31	39
Martin Van Buren	37.1	40	33	34	34
Franklin Pierce	36.6	41	38	38	41
James Buchanan	30.1	42	42	40	43
Herbert Hoover	28.4	43	41	41	36

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