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Pursued Equal Justice for All
President's Name
2009
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2009
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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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