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Historian Survey Results Category

Moral Authority

President's Name 2009
Final Score
Category Ranking 2009
Overall Ranking
2009 2000
George Washington 96.8 1 1 2
Abraham Lincoln 96.8 2 2 1
Franklin D. Roosevelt 83.0 3 4 3
Theodore Roosevelt 80.5 4 3 4
Dwight D. Eisenhower 79.5 5 5 8
Woodrow Wilson 78.0 6 6 9
Thomas Jefferson 74.2 7 8 7
Ronald Reagan 68.6 8 11 10
Harry S. Truman 68.0 9 7 5
James Madison 65.8 10 13 20
John F. Kennedy 65.3 11 15 6
John Adams 63.8 12 9 17
Gerald R. Ford 62.5 13 21 22
Jimmy Carter 62.1 14 10 25
James Monroe 60.6 15 17 13
John Quincy Adams 58.9 16 12 19
William McKinley 58.1 17 16 16
Andrew Jackson 57.5 18 14 13
George H. W. Bush 56.9 19 19 18
Calvin Coolidge 55.2 20 23 26
Grover Cleveland 54.9 21 18 21
William Howard Taft 54.4 22 22 24
Ulysses S. Grant 52.2 23 31 23
James K. Polk 51.1 24 20 12
James A. Garfield 50.7 25 25 28
Lyndon B. Johnson 50.6 26 28 11
Zachary Taylor 48.6 27 27 29
Herbert Hoover 47.4 28 24 34
Benjamin Harrison 44.3 29 30 30
Rutherford B. Hayes 39.3 30 26 33
William Henry Harrison 38.9 31 34 39
Martin Van Buren 38.5 32 29 31
Chester A. Arthur 36.6 33 33 32
John Tyler 35.5 34 35 35
George W. Bush 34.4 35 NA 36
Millard Fillmore 31.3 36 32 37
Bill Clinton 28.9 37 41 15
Franklin D. Pierce 26.9 38 36 40
Warren G. Harding 22.5 39 39 38
Andrew Johnson 21.1 40 37 41
Richard M. Nixon 18.4 41 40 27
James Buchanan 18.2 42 38 42

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