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Performance Within Context of Times

President	2021 Final Score	Category Rankings				2021 Overall Rankings
President	2021 Final Score	2021	2017	2009	2000	2021 Overall Rankings
Abraham Lincoln	96.5	1	2	2	1	1
George Washington	95.6	2	1	1	2	2
Franklin D. Roosevelt	89.6	3	3	3	3	3
Theodore Roosevelt	82.5	4	4	4	4	4
Harry S. Truman	77.4	5	5	5	5	6
Thomas Jefferson	77.1	6	6	6	6	7
Dwight D. Eisenhower	76.0	7	7	8	9	5
Ronald Reagan	73.0	8	8	7	12	9
John F. Kennedy	70.0	9	9	11	11	8
Barack Obama	68.2	10	15	NA	NA	10
James Monroe	67.8	11	11	13	16	12
James Madison	65.3	12	16	18	18	16
Lyndon B. Johnson	65.0	13	14	14	13	11
William McKinley	63.4	14	18	15	14	14
Woodrow Wilson	63.2	15	10	10	7	13
Ulysses S. Grant	63.1	16	21	25	33	20
James K. Polk	63.1	17	12	12	10	18
John Adams	63.0	18	19	17	15	15
Andrew Jackson	62.8	19	13	9	8	22
William J. Clinton	61.9	20	17	16	21	19
George H. W. Bush	59.7	21	20	19	20	21
John Quincy Adams	58.8	22	22	22	19	17
William Howard Taft	55.2	23	24	23	23	23
Calvin Coolidge	55.2	24	26	24	27	24
Grover Cleveland	53.8	25	23	20	17	25
Gerald R. Ford	51.8	26	25	21	22	28
James A. Garfield	51.5	27	27	31	30	27
Chester A. Arthur	48.5	28	32	27	26	30
George W. Bush	48.3	29	35	36	NA	29
Jimmy Carter	47.8	30	29	28	24	26
Benjamin Harrison	46.7	31	31	29	29	32
Rutherford B. Hayes	45.9	32	28	32	25	33
Martin Van Buren	45.3	33	33	30	31	34
Zachary Taylor	45.0	34	30	26	28	35
Richard M. Nixon	40.3	35	34	33	32	31
Millard Fillmore	37.3	36	37	35	34	38
Warren G. Harding	37.1	37	40	38	37	37
John Tyler	35.8	38	36	34	35	39
Herbert Hoover	33.7	39	39	37	36	36
William Henry Harrison	32.9	40	38	39	38	40
Franklin Pierce	28.5	41	41	40	40	42
Donald J. Trump	28.3	42	NA	NA	NA	41
Andrew Johnson	21.1	43	42	41	39	43
James Buchanan	19.1	44	43	42	41	44

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