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President

Years in Office

Political party

Average ranking

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Abraham Lincoln18611865
Republican1.582
Franklin D. Roosevelt19331945
Democrat23
George Washington17891797refused to affiliate2.834
Thomas Jefferson18011809
Democratic-Republican4.425
Theodore Roosevelt19011909Republican4.836
Woodrow Wilson19131921Democrat6.587
Harry S. Truman19451953Democrat7.188
Andrew Jackson18291837Democrat99
Dwight D. Eisenhower19531961Republican10.7310
James K. Polk18451849Democrat11.0811
John Adams17971801
Federalist12.1712
John F. Kennedy19611963Democrat12.513
James Madison18091817Democratic-Republican12.6714
Lyndon B. Johnson19631969Democrat13.615
Ronald Reagan19811989Republican13.8816
James Monroe18171825Democratic-Republican14.0817
Grover Cleveland18851889 and 1893-1897Democrat1518
William McKinley18971901Republican16.3319
John Quincy Adams18251829
National Republican/
Whig16.920
William Howard Taft19091913Republican19.6721
William J. Clinton19932001Democrat20.6722
George W. Bush2001Republican2123
Martin Van Buren18371841Democrat21.5824
Rutherford B. Hayes18771881Republican2225
George H. W. Bush19891993Republican22.1426
Chester A. Arthur18811885Republican25.527 (tie)
Jimmy Carter19771981Democrat26.327 (tie)
Gerald Ford19741977Republican26.329
Herbert Hoover19291933Republican26.1730
Benjamin Harrison18891893Republican27.3331
Calvin Coolidge19231929Republican28.4232
Richard Nixon19691974Republican29.233
James A. Garfield1881Republican29.5734
Zachary Taylor18491850Whig29.5835
John Tyler18411845Whig/none31.7536
Millard Fillmore18501853Whig32.4137
Ulysses Grant18691877Republican33.4238
William Henry Harrison1841Whig33.5739
Andrew Johnson18651869Democrat/none34.6740
Franklin Pierce18531857Democrat34.9241
James Buchanan18571861Democrat36.5842
Warren G. Harding19211923Republican37.33
Notable scholar surveys
The 1948 poll was conducted by historian
Arthur M. Schlesinger,