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Historian Survey Results Category

Pursued Equal Justice for All

President's Name 2009
Final Score
Category Ranking 2009
Overall Ranking
2009 2000
Abraham Lincoln 94.3 1 1 1
Lyndon B. Johnson 91.5 2 2 11
Harry S. Truman 79.2 3 3 5
Bill Clinton 73.0 4 5 15
Jimmy Carter 70.3 5 4 25
John F. Kennedy 70.3 6 7 6
Franklin D. Roosevelt 66.9 7 6 3
Theodore Roosevelt 65.3 8 9 4
Ulysses S. Grant 62.1 9 18 23
Dwight D. Eisenhower 59.5 10 10 8
John Quincy Adams 58.5 11 8 19
Gerald R. Ford 51.2 12 15 22
George Washington 51.2 13 12 2
George H. W. Bush 48.7 14 17 18
John Adams 48.3 15 14 17
Ronald Reagan 45.4 16 25 10
Thomas Jefferson 45.4 17 11 7
Richard M. Nixon 43.9 18 19 27
William Howard Taft 43.8 19 26 24
James Madison 42.9 20 13 20
William McKinley 42.7 21 22 16
James A. Garfield 42.2 22 21 28
Benjamin Harrison 42.1 23 28 30
George W. Bush 39.8 24 NA 36
Grover Cleveland 39.8 25 23 21
James Monroe 38.4 26 16 13
Woodrow Wilson 38.4 27 20 9
Martin Van Buren 37.7 28 30 31
Chester A. Arthur 37.6 29 29 32
Calvin Coolidge 37.0 30 34 26
Herbert Hoover 36.3 31 31 34
Zachary Taylor 33.1 32 27 29
Rutherford B. Hayes 32.7 33 24 33
Warren G. Harding 32.2 34 37 38
Andrew Jackson 31.9 35 32 13
James K. Polk 30.2 36 33 12
William Henry Harrison 28.5 37 36 39
Millard Fillmore 26.9 38 35 37
John Tyler 24.6 39 38 35
Andrew Johnson 24.3 40 39 41
Franklin D. Pierce 20.0 41 40 40
James Buchanan 16.2 42 41 42

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