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Pursued Equal Justice For All

President's Name	2017 Final Scores	Category Rankings			2017 Overall Rankings
President's Name	2017 Final Scores	2017	2009	2000	2017 Overall Rankings
Abraham Lincoln	93.1	1	1	1	1
Lyndon B. Johnson	91.5	2	2	2	10
Barack Obama	83.2	3	NA	NA	12
Harry S. Truman	81.4	4	3	3	6
James Earl Carter Jr.	75.1	5	5	4	26
William J. Clinton	72.3	6	4	5	15
John F. Kennedy	71.7	7	6	7	8
Franklin D. Roosevelt	68.8	8	7	6	3
John Quincy Adams	66.9	9	11	8	21
Ulysses S. Grant	64.0	10	9	18	22
Theodore Roosevelt	62.8	11	8	9	4
Dwight D. Eisenhower	60.7	12	10	10	5
George Washington	54.4	13	13	12	2
Gerald R. Ford	53.1	14	12	15	25
John Adams	52.6	15	15	14	19
George H. W. Bush	52.0	16	14	17	20
Thomas Jefferson	47.8	17	16	11	7
James Madison	47.2	18	20	13	17
George W. Bush	47.0	19	24	NA	33
James A. Garfield	46.7	20	22	21	29
Richard M. Nixon	46.6	21	18	19	28
William Howard Taft	44.7	22	19	26	24
Ronald Reagan	44.6	23	17	25	9
Benjamin Harrison	43.8	24	23	28	30
James Monroe	43.5	25	26	16	13
William McKinley	41.4	26	21	22	16
Chester A. Arthur	40.8	27	29	29	35
Herbert Hoover	40.0	28	31	31	36
Calvin Coolidge	39.5	29	30	34	27
Martin Van Buren	38.9	30	28	30	34
Grover Cleveland	38.6	31	25	23	23
Rutherford B. Hayes	38.0	32	33	24	32
Warren G. Harding	37.0	33	34	37	40
Zachary Taylor	36.3	34	32	27	31
Woodrow Wilson	36.2	35	27	20	11
James K. Polk	32.1	36	36	33	14
William Henry Harrison	31.4	37	37	36	38
Andrew Jackson	31.2	38	35	32	18
Millard Fillmore	28.6	39	38	35	37
Andrew Johnson	24.5	40	40	39	42
John Tyler	24.1	41	39	38	39
Franklin Pierce	22.6	42	41	40	41
James Buchanan	18.4	43	42	41	43

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