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Pursued Equal Justice For All

President	2021 Final Score	Category Rankings				2021 Overall Rankings
President	2021 Final Score	2021	2017	2009	2000	2021 Overall Rankings
Abraham Lincoln	90.9	1	1	1	1	1
Lyndon B. Johnson	86.2	2	2	2	2	11
Barack Obama	78.2	3	3	NA	NA	10
Harry S. Truman	75.3	4	4	3	3	6
Jimmy Carter	72.0	5	5	6	4	26
Ulysses S. Grant	71.4	6	10	9	18	20
John F. Kennedy	71.0	7	7	5	7	8
William J. Clinton	66.6	8	6	4	5	19
Franklin D. Roosevelt	66.2	9	8	7	6	3
John Quincy Adams	66.0	10	9	11	8	17
Theodore Roosevelt	62.7	11	11	8	9	4
Dwight D. Eisenhower	61.5	12	12	10	10	5
John Adams	57.3	13	15	15	14	15
George Washington	54.8	14	13	12	12	2
George H. W. Bush	52.0	15	16	14	17	21
James A. Garfield	51.9	16	20	22	21	27
Gerald R. Ford	51.3	17	14	13	15	28
George W. Bush	50.7	18	19	25	NA	29
William Howard Taft	48.8	19	22	19	26	23
Thomas Jefferson	47.9	20	17	17	11	7
James Madison	47.1	21	18	20	13	16
Ronald Reagan	46.0	22	23	16	24	9
Benjamin Harrison	45.5	23	24	23	29	32
Calvin Coolidge	44.3	24	29	30	34	24
James Monroe	43.9	25	25	27	16	12
William McKinley	43.8	26	26	21	23	14
Chester A. Arthur	43.3	27	27	29	28	30
Richard M. Nixon	42.8	28	21	18	19	31
Grover Cleveland	42.3	29	31	24	22	25
Warren G. Harding	40.5	30	33	34	37	37
Rutherford B. Hayes	39.9	31	32	33	25	33
Herbert Hoover	39.7	32	28	31	31	36
Martin Van Buren	38.3	33	30	28	30	34
Zachary Taylor	36.2	34	34	32	27	35
James K. Polk	32.3	35	36	36	33	18
William Henry Harrison	30.8	36	37	37	36	40
Woodrow Wilson	30.2	37	35	26	20	13
Millard Fillmore	30.2	38	39	38	35	38
Andrew Jackson	30.0	39	38	35	32	22
Donald J. Trump	27.6	40	NA	NA	NA	41
John Tyler	24.0	41	41	39	38	39
Franklin Pierce	23.0	42	42	41	40	42
Andrew Johnson	19.8	43	40	40	39	43
James Buchanan	17.9	44	43	42	41	44

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