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Administrative Skills

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	85.6	1	2	1	1
George Washington	84.7	2	1	2	2
Franklin D. Roosevelt	79.1	3	3	3	3
Theodore Roosevelt	78.8	4	4	4	4
Dwight D. Eisenhower	77.0	5	5	7	5
Lyndon B. Johnson	72.3	6	11	9	10
Thomas Jefferson	71.8	7	6	8	7
Woodrow Wilson	70.0	8	7	6	11
James K. Polk	69.0	9	8	10	14
Harry S. Truman	67.5	10	9	5	6
James Monroe	66.4	11	12	14	13
William Howard Taft	65.8	12	17	20	24
William McKinley	65.4	13	13	15	16
Herbert Hoover	64.7	14	10	11	36
John F. Kennedy	63.3	15	14	13	8
George H. W. Bush	63.1	16	16	16	20
James Madison	62.7	17	22	18	17
John Quincy Adams	61.4	18	15	22	21
Barack Obama	61.3	19	NA	NA	12
William J. Clinton	60.7	20	20	21	15
John Adams	59.9	21	25	19	19
Grover Cleveland	58.4	22	19	12	23
Andrew Jackson	56.5	23	18	23	18
Richard M. Nixon	56.5	24	23	17	28
Calvin Coolidge	56.3	25	24	28	27
Martin Van Buren	55.1	26	21	25	34
Gerald R. Ford	52.9	27	26	24	25
Chester A. Arthur	52.3	28	32	29	35
Rutherford B. Hayes	49.8	29	27	27	32
Benjamin Harrison	49.3	30	31	30	30
Jimmy Carter	49.1	31	29	26	26
James A. Garfield	48.8	32	28	34	29
Ronald Reagan	47.4	33	30	32	9
George W. Bush	45.5	34	37	NA	33
Zachary Taylor	45.2	35	33	31	31
Millard Fillmore	42.9	36	35	35	37
Ulysses S. Grant	40.8	37	36	39	22
John Tyler	40.6	38	34	33	39
Franklin Pierce	36.7	39	39	38	41
William Henry Harrison	34.5	40	42	36	38
James Buchanan	34.0	41	38	37	43
Warren G. Harding	32.5	42	40	41	40
Andrew Johnson	28.5	43	41	40	42

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