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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	97.6	1	1	1	2
Abraham Lincoln	96.2	2	2	2	1
Franklin D. Roosevelt	85.7	3	3	4	3
Dwight D. Eisenhower	85.6	4	5	5	5
Theodore Roosevelt	84.1	5	4	3	4
Thomas Jefferson	78.5	6	7	8	7
Barack Obama	77.5	7	NA	NA	12
Woodrow Wilson	75.7	8	6	6	11
James Madison	72.9	9	10	13	17
Harry S. Truman	72.8	10	9	7	6
John Adams	70.7	11	12	9	19
John Quincy Adams	70.1	12	16	12	21
Ronald Reagan	68.8	13	8	11	9
James Earl Carter Jr.	67.1	14	14	10	26
John F. Kennedy	66.9	15	11	15	8
James Monroe	66.2	16	15	17	13
George H. W. Bush	64.0	17	19	19	20
William McKinley	63.5	18	17	16	16
Ulysses S. Grant	61.4	19	23	31	22
Andrew Jackson	59.3	20	18	14	18
Calvin Coolidge	59.1	21	20	23	27
James A. Garfield	58.1	22	25	25	29
Gerald R. Ford	57.9	23	13	21	25
Lyndon B. Johnson	57.8	24	26	28	10
William Howard Taft	56.7	25	22	22	24
Grover Cleveland	56.6	26	21	18	23
James K. Polk	53.2	27	24	20	14
Zachary Taylor	51.0	28	27	27	31
Herbert Hoover	48.0	29	28	24	36
Benjamin Harrison	47.7	30	29	30	30
William Henry Harrison	46.9	31	31	34	38
Rutherford B. Hayes	46.9	32	30	26	32
Martin Van Buren	46.8	33	32	29	34
George W. Bush	45.8	34	35	NA	33
Chester A. Arthur	44.2	35	33	33	35
Millard Fillmore	35.8	36	36	32	37
John Tyler	34.7	37	34	35	39
William J. Clinton	33.2	38	37	41	15
Franklin Pierce	29.6	39	38	36	41
Warren G. Harding	24.7	40	39	39	40
Andrew Johnson	24.3	41	40	37	42
Richard M. Nixon	23.0	42	41	40	28
James Buchanan	20.5	43	42	38	43

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