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President	2021 Final Score	Category Rankings				2021 Overall Rankings
President	2021 Final Score	2021	2017	2009	2000	2021 Overall Rankings
Franklin D. Roosevelt	88.0	1	1	2	1	3
George Washington	85.0	2	2	1	2	2
Abraham Lincoln	82.8	3	3	3	4	1
Theodore Roosevelt	80.6	4	4	5	3	4
Dwight D. Eisenhower	78.5	5	6	6	9	5
James Monroe	78.4	6	7	7	7	12
Harry S. Truman	78.3	7	5	4	5	6
George H. W. Bush	74.7	8	8	9	12	21
Ronald Reagan	73.8	9	9	8	14	9
John Quincy Adams	70.2	10	15	12	11	17
Thomas Jefferson	69.2	11	11	18	16	7
Richard M. Nixon	68.7	12	10	11	8	31
Woodrow Wilson	67.8	13	12	10	6	13
John Adams	66.2	14	13	14	10	15
John F. Kennedy	65.7	15	14	13	13	8
William McKinley	64.2	16	17	15	17	14
James K. Polk	62.0	17	16	17	15	18
Ulysses S. Grant	61.5	18	19	21	33	20
William J. Clinton	58.7	19	18	16	21	19
William Howard Taft	57.2	20	21	19	22	23
Barack Obama	56.7	21	24	NA	NA	10
James Madison	56.0	22	22	31	24	16
Andrew Jackson	55.5	23	20	20	19	22
Grover Cleveland	53.8	24	23	22	18	25
Gerald R. Ford	52.8	25	25	23	23	28
Martin Van Buren	52.2	26	26	26	28	34
Calvin Coolidge	52.0	27	29	29	30	24
Jimmy Carter	50.0	28	32	27	20	26
Benjamin Harrison	49.4	29	27	28	29	32
Rutherford B. Hayes	48.0	30	33	30	26	33
Zachary Taylor	46.8	31	30	33	27	35
Herbert Hoover	46.7	32	31	24	25	36
Chester A. Arthur	46.6	33	35	34	34	30
Warren G. Harding	46.3	34	37	37	35	37
John Tyler	45.2	35	28	25	31	39
James A. Garfield	44.9	36	36	32	38	27
Millard Fillmore	42.6	37	34	38	32	38
George W. Bush	42.2	38	41	41	NA	29
Lyndon B. Johnson	39.7	39	38	35	36	11
Franklin Pierce	36.2	40	40	39	39	42
William Henry Harrison	34.0	41	42	42	41	40
Andrew Johnson	33.9	42	39	36	37	43
Donald J. Trump	33.3	43	NA	NA	NA	41
James Buchanan	30.5	44	43	40	40	44

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