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Presidents by average scholar rank

# President Years in Office Political party Average ranking
1Abraham Lincoln1861–1865Republican1.582Franklin D. Roosevelt1933–1945Democrat23George Washington1789–1797refused to affiliate2.834Thomas Jefferson1801–1809Democratic-Republican4.425Theodore Roosevelt1901–1909Republican4.836Woodrow Wilson1913–1921Democrat6.587Harry S. Truman1945–1953Democrat7.188Andrew Jackson1829–1837Democrat99Dwight D. Eisenhower1953–1961Republican10.7310James K. Polk1845–1849Democrat11.0811John Adams1797–1801Federalist12.1712John F. Kennedy1961–1963Democrat12.513James Madison1809–1817Democratic-Republican12.6714Lyndon B. Johnson1963–1969Democrat13.615Ronald Reagan1981–1989Republican13.8816James Monroe1817–1825Democratic-Republican14.0817Grover Cleveland1885–1889 and 1893-1897Democrat1518William McKinley1897–1901Republican16.3319John Quincy Adams1825–1829National Republican/Whig16.920William Howard Taft1909–1913Republican19.6721William J. Clinton1993–2001Democrat20.6722George W. Bush2001–Republican2123Martin Van Buren1837–1841Democrat21.5824Rutherford B. Hayes1877–1881Republican2225George H. W. Bush1989–1993Republican22.1426Chester A. Arthur1881–1885Republican25.527 (tie)Jimmy Carter1977–1981Democrat26.327 (tie)Gerald Ford1974–1977Republican26.329Herbert Hoover1929–1933Republican26.1730Benjamin Harrison1889–1893Republican27.3331Calvin Coolidge1923–1929Republican28.4232Richard Nixon1969–1974Republican29.233James A. Garfield1881Republican29.5734Zachary Taylor1849–1850Whig29.5835John Tyler1841–1845Whig/none31.7536Millard Fillmore1850–1853Whig32.4137Ulysses Grant1869–1877Republican33.4238William Henry Harrison1841Whig33.5739Andrew Johnson1865–1869Democrat/none34.6740Franklin Pierce1853–1857Democrat34.9241James Buchanan1857–1861Democrat36.5842Warren G. Harding1921–1923Republican37.33

Notable scholar surveys

The 1948 poll was conducted by historian Arthur M. Schlesinger,