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Public Persuasion

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	96.8	1	1	1	3
Theodore Roosevelt	92.6	2	4	2	4
Abraham Lincoln	92.4	3	2	3	1
George Washington	91.4	4	5	6	2
Ronald Reagan	90.9	5	3	4	9
John F. Kennedy	86.4	6	6	5	8
Andrew Jackson	82.2	7	7	7	18
Thomas Jefferson	82.1	8	8	8	7
William J. Clinton	79.6	9	10	11	15
Barack Obama	77.9	10	NA	NA	12
Woodrow Wilson	77.8	11	9	9	11
Dwight D. Eisenhower	73.0	12	11	10	5
James K. Polk	68.8	13	12	16	14
Harry S. Truman	67.8	14	16	12	6
Lyndon B. Johnson	67.5	15	14	13	10
William McKinley	67.4	16	13	14	16
James Monroe	64.5	17	15	17	13
James Madison	62.3	18	18	18	17
Ulysses S. Grant	60.9	19	19	22	22
Grover Cleveland	60.0	20	17	15	23
James A. Garfield	51.1	21	25	21	29
John Adams	50.7	22	26	24	19
George H. W. Bush	49.8	23	30	19	20
Calvin Coolidge	49.8	24	22	20	27
George W. Bush	49.0	25	36	NA	33
Richard M. Nixon	49.0	26	21	28	28
Zachary Taylor	48.5	27	20	26	31
William Henry Harrison	47.6	28	27	29	38
Rutherford B. Hayes	46.1	29	34	23	32
Martin Van Buren	46.0	30	24	32	34
William Howard Taft	45.1	31	28	25	24
Benjamin Harrison	43.8	32	29	35	30
John Quincy Adams	42.7	33	31	33	21
Gerald R. Ford	42.5	34	23	31	25
Jimmy Carter	42.5	35	35	30	26
Warren G. Harding	41.4	36	32	27	40
Chester A. Arthur	41.3	37	33	34	35
Herbert Hoover	37.0	38	38	37	36
John Tyler	36.8	39	37	38	39
Millard Fillmore	36.3	40	39	36	37
Franklin Pierce	32.3	41	40	39	41
Andrew Johnson	24.9	42	41	41	42
James Buchanan	23.9	43	42	40	43

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