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Moral Authority

President	2021 Final Score	Category Rankings				2021 Overall Rankings
President	2021 Final Score	2021	2017	2009	2000	2021 Overall Rankings
Abraham Lincoln	95.2	1	2	1	2	1
George Washington	92.7	2	1	2	1	2
Franklin D. Roosevelt	81.8	3	3	3	4	3
Dwight D. Eisenhower	81.4	4	4	5	5	5
Theodore Roosevelt	79.3	5	5	4	3	4
Barack Obama	75.5	6	7	NA	NA	10
Jimmy Carter	71.7	7	14	14	10	26
John Adams	71.6	8	11	12	9	15
Harry S. Truman	71.3	9	10	9	7	6
John Quincy Adams	69.9	10	12	16	12	17
Thomas Jefferson	69.1	11	6	7	8	7
James Madison	68.5	12	9	10	13	16
Ronald Reagan	65.4	13	13	8	11	9
James Monroe	63.2	14	16	15	17	12
George H. W. Bush	63.1	15	17	19	19	21
John F. Kennedy	61.8	16	15	11	15	8
Ulysses S. Grant	60.8	17	19	23	31	20
Calvin Coolidge	60.4	18	21	20	23	24
Woodrow Wilson	59.6	19	8	6	6	13
Gerald R. Ford	59.5	20	23	13	21	28
William McKinley	59.4	21	18	17	16	14
William Howard Taft	59.3	22	25	22	22	23
James A. Garfield	58.6	23	22	25	25	27
Lyndon B. Johnson	54.8	24	24	26	28	11
Grover Cleveland	53.5	25	26	21	18	25
George W. Bush	51.4	26	34	35	NA	29
Benjamin Harrison	48.6	27	30	29	30	32
James K. Polk	48.6	28	27	24	20	18
Zachary Taylor	48.0	29	28	27	27	35
Herbert Hoover	47.1	30	29	28	24	36
Chester A. Arthur	47.0	31	35	33	32	30
Andrew Jackson	46.3	32	20	18	14	22
Rutherford B. Hayes	45.5	33	32	30	26	33
Martin Van Buren	45.4	34	33	32	29	34
William Henry Harrison	43.8	35	31	31	34	40
Millard Fillmore	34.5	36	36	36	33	38
John Tyler	33.8	37	37	34	35	39
William J. Clinton	30.0	38	38	37	41	19
Franklin Pierce	29.2	39	39	38	36	42
Warren G. Harding	26.9	40	40	39	39	37
Richard M. Nixon	21.7	41	42	41	40	31
Andrew Johnson	20.3	42	41	40	37	43
James Buchanan	19.1	43	43	42	38	44
Donald J. Trump	18.7	44	NA	NA	NA	41

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