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Ranking the Presidents: The Final Results

In September and the first part of this month, we conducted an online survey in which we asked people to rate each President of the United States on a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 being best), based on their performance as President while in office. Links to the online poll were contained in this community and on Twitter. Every day people were given a summary of each President's legacy, in chronological order of their presidency. People were allowed until midnight Pacific time to cast their vote. Polling has now concluded and here are the results, in order from worst to last.



The 11 Worst

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44. James Buchanan: 1.50
43. Andrew Johnson: 1.63
42. Franklin Pierce: 1.88
41. Herbert Hoover: 2.67
40. Donald Trump: 3.35
39. Jimmy Carter: 3.60
38. William Henry Harrison: 3.83
37. Martin Van Buren: 3.90
36. Warren Harding: 4.23
35. Millard Fillmore: 4.71
34. John Tyler: 4.89

Passing Grades (but just barely)

33. John Quincy Adams: 5.00
32. Rutherford Hayes: 5.10
31. Richard Nixon: 5.15
30. Benjamin Harrison: 5.22
29. Woodrow Wilson: 5.29
28. Grover Cleveland: 5.43
27. Lyndon Johnson: 5.68
25/26. Gerald Ford: 6.00
25/26. Zachary Taylor: 6.00
24. George W. Bush: 6.06
23. Andrew Jackson: 6.11
22. Chester Alan Arthur: 6.13

Above Average

21. George H. W. Bush: 6.17
20. Ulysses Grant: 6.20
19. James Garfield: 6.25
18. James Madison: 6.27
17. Barack Obama: 6.31
16. John Adams: 6.40
15. William Howard Taft: 6.54
14. Bill Clinton: 6.60
13. Calvin Coolidge: 6.64
12. Ronald Reagan: 6.69
11. Thomas Jefferson: 7.00

The Top 10

10. John F. Kennedy: 7.18
9. William McKinley: 7.22
8. Franklin D. Roosevelt: 7.29
7. James K. Polk: 7.56
6. Harry Truman: 7.67
5. Dwight Eisenhower: 8.00
4. Theodore Roosevelt: 8.33
3. James Monroe: 8.40
2. Abraham Lincoln: 9.40
1. George Washington: 9.68

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