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President's Name
2009
Final Score
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2009
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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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