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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
Franklin D. Roosevelt	89.7	1	2	1	3
George Washington	87.6	2	1	2	2
Abraham Lincoln	86.4	3	3	4	1
Theodore Roosevelt	84.4	4	5	3	4
Harry S. Truman	82.6	5	4	5	6
Dwight D. Eisenhower	81.5	6	6	9	5
James Monroe	79.5	7	7	7	13
George H. W. Bush	77.3	8	9	12	20
Ronald Reagan	76.8	9	8	14	9
Richard M. Nixon	72.3	10	11	8	28
Thomas Jefferson	71.5	11	18	16	7
Woodrow Wilson	71.3	12	10	6	11
John Adams	70.2	13	14	10	19
John F. Kennedy	69.5	14	13	13	8
John Quincy Adams	68.5	15	12	11	21
James K. Polk	67.5	16	17	15	14
William McKinley	65.5	17	15	17	16
William J. Clinton	63.8	18	16	21	15
Ulysses S. Grant	60.4	19	21	33	22
Andrew Jackson	58.0	20	20	19	18
William Howard Taft	57.8	21	19	22	24
James Madison	56.9	22	31	24	17
Grover Cleveland	56.1	23	22	18	23
Barack Obama	55.1	24	NA	NA	12
Gerald R. Ford	54.2	25	23	23	25
Martin Van Buren	51.0	26	26	28	34
Benjamin Harrison	51.0	27	28	29	30
John Tyler	50.9	28	24	31	39
Calvin Coolidge	50.9	29	29	30	27
Zachary Taylor	49.7	30	33	27	31
Herbert Hoover	49.6	31	25	25	36
James Earl Carter Jr.	49.4	32	27	20	26
Rutherford B. Hayes	48.5	33	30	26	32
Millard Fillmore	48.2	34	38	32	37
Chester A. Arthur	47.5	35	34	34	35
James A. Garfield	43.4	36	32	38	29
Warren G. Harding	42.1	37	37	35	40
Lyndon B. Johnson	41.5	38	35	36	10
Andrew Johnson	40.1	39	36	37	42
Franklin Pierce	37.5	40	39	39	41
George W. Bush	36.4	41	41	NA	33
William Henry Harrison	34.3	42	42	41	38
James Buchanan	32.1	43	40	40	43

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