C-SPAN Survey
of Presidential Leadership

Historian Survey Results Category:
Total Score/Overall Ranking

President's Name / Final Score / Overall Ranking
Abraham Lincoln 9001
Franklin Delano Roosevelt 8762
George Washington 8423
Theodore Roosevelt 8104
Harry S. Truman 7535
Woodrow Wilson 7236
Thomas Jefferson 7117
John F. Kennedy 7048
Dwight D. Eisenhower 6999
Lyndon Baines Johnson 65510
Ronald Reagan 63411
James K. Polk 63212
Andrew Jackson 63213
James Monroe 60214
William McKinley 60115
John Adams 59816
Grover Cleveland 57617
James Madison 56718
John Quincy Adams 56419
George Bush 54820
Bill Clinton 53921
Jimmy Carter 51822
Gerald Ford 49523
William Howard Taft 49124
Richard Nixon 47725
Rutherford B. Hayes 47726
Calvin Coolidge 45127
Zachary Taylor 44728
James Garfield 44429
Martin Van Buren 42930
Benjamin Harrison 42631
Chester Arthur 42332
Ulysses S. Grant 40333
Herbert Hoover 40034
Millard Fillmore 39535
John Tyler 36936
William Henry Harrison 32937
Warren G. Harding 32638
Franklin Pierce 28639
Andrew Johnson 28040
James Buchanan 25941

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