Historian Survey Results Category

Performance Within Context of Times

President's Name 2009
Final Score		 Category Ranking 2009
Overall Ranking
2009 2000
Abraham Lincoln 97.7 1 1 1
George Washington 97.7 2 2 2
Franklin D. Roosevelt 91.3 3 3 3
Theodore Roosevelt 83.6 4 4 4
Harry S. Truman 79.6 5 5 5
Thomas Jefferson 76.3 6 6 7
Ronald Reagan 72.5 7 12 10
Dwight D. Eisenhower 71.0 8 9 8
Andrew Jackson 69.7 9 8 13
Woodrow Wilson 69.0 10 7 9
John F. Kennedy 68.9 11 11 6
James K. Polk 66.4 12 10 12
James Monroe 65.1 13 16 13
Lyndon B. Johnson 63.6 14 13 11
William McKinley 62.4 15 14 16
Bill Clinton 60.7 16 20 15
John Adams 59.5 17 15 17
James Madison 58.5 18 18 20
George H. W. Bush 56.7 19 21 18
Grover Cleveland 56.3 20 17 21
Gerald R. Ford 54.6 21 22 22
John Quincy Adams 53.3 22 19 19
William Howard Taft 49.2 23 23 24
Calvin Coolidge 48.9 24 27 26
Ulysses S. Grant 48.8 25 33 23
Zachary Taylor 45.7 26 28 29
Chester A. Arthur 45.0 27 26 32
Jimmy Carter 44.5 28 24 25
Benjamin Harrison 44.1 29 29 30
Martin Van Buren 42.0 30 31 31
James A. Garfield 41.9 31 30 28
Rutherford B. Hayes 41.7 32 25 33
Richard M. Nixon 38.4 33 32 27
John Tyler 38.2 34 35 35
Millard Fillmore 34.4 35 34 37
George W. Bush 33.9 36 NA 36
Herbert Hoover 30.8 37 36 34
Warren G. Harding 30.2 38 37 38
William Henry Harrison 28.4 39 38 39
Franklin Pierce 26.7 40 40 40
Andrew Johnson 25.4 41 39 41
James Buchanan 18.8 42 41 42

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