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President's Name
2009
Final Score
Category Ranking
2009
Overall Ranking
2009
2000
George Washington
82.7
1
2
2
Abraham Lincoln
80.2
2
3
1
Bill Clinton
76.7
3
5
15
Theodore Roosevelt
73.6
4
4
4
Franklin D. Roosevelt
70.3
5
1
3
John F. Kennedy
70.2
6
9
6
Woodrow Wilson
68.8
7
6
9
Dwight D. Eisenhower
63.9
8
8
8
Thomas Jefferson
63.8
9
13
7
Harry S. Truman
63.5
10
7
5
Lyndon B. Johnson
59.2
11
12
11
James Monroe
58.0
12
20
13
William McKinley
58.0
13
14
16
James K. Polk
57.9
14
10
12
John Adams
57.2
15
11
17
John Quincy Adams
56.2
16
16
19
Ronald Reagan
54.9
17
21
10
James Madison
53.1
18
15
20
William Howard Taft
51.1
19
18
24
Calvin Coolidge
50.2
20
26
26
Grover Cleveland
49.4
21
19
21
Richard M. Nixon
47.2
22
17
27
George H. W. Bush
46.9
23
23
18
Zachary Taylor
43.8
24
29
29
Rutherford B. Hayes
43.8
25
22
33
Gerald R. Ford
43.6
26
25
22
Chester A. Arthur
43.6
27
27
32
Benjamin Harrison
43.4
28
28
30
Andrew Jackson
43.2
29
24
13
James A. Garfield
43.2
30
30
28
John Tyler
39.5
31
31
35
Ulysses S. Grant
38.4
32
37
23
Martin Van Buren
37.5
33
34
31
Millard Fillmore
36.8
34
32
37
Jimmy Carter
36.2
35
33
25
Warren G. Harding
34.1
36
36
38
Andrew Johnson
33.9
37
35
41
Franklin D. Pierce
33.3
38
38
40
William Henry Harrison
27.9
39
39
39
George W. Bush
25.3
40
NA
36
Herbert Hoover
24.9
41
41
34
James Buchanan
24.7
42
40
42
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