United States Presidency Centre
UK Survey of US Presidents
Results

Total Scores
and Overall Ranking

Overall
Ranking
President
Average
Score
Percentage
1
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945
446.60
89.32%
2
Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865
441.25
88.25%
3
George Washington, 1789-1797
422.64
84.53%
4
Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809
383.12
76.62%
5
Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909
378.50
75.70%
6
Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921
373.26
74.65%
7
Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953
361.70
72.34%
8
Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-1989
332.98
66.60%
9
Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837
329.00
65.80%
10
Dwight David Eisenhower, 1953-1961
328.94
65.79%
11
Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969
326.36
65.27%
12
John Adams, 1797-1801
323.55
64.71%
13
James Monroe, 1817-1825
310.52
62.10%
14
James Madison, 1809-1817
308.49
61.70%
15
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963
308.17
61.63%
16
James Knox Polk, 1845-1849
293.18
58.64%
17
William McKinley, 1897-1901
291.36
58.27%
18
James Earl Carter, Jr., 1977-1981
285.96
57.19%
19
William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001
281.74
56.35%
20
John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829
277.97
55.59%
21
Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889
265.00
53.00%
22
George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993
255.11
51.02%
23
Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974
239.36
47.87%
24
Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977
235.19
47.04%
25
William Howard Taft, 1909-1913
230.69
46.14%
26
Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-1933
223.95
44.79%
27
Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841
218.21
43.64%
28
Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929
209.34
41.87%
29
Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1869-1877
206.65
41.33%
30
Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1877-1881
199.24
39.85%
31
George Walker Bush, 2001-2009
197.84
39.57%
32
Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-1885
193.77
38.75%
33
Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850
193.03
38.61%
34
Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893
183.90
36.78%
35
Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853
177.48
35.50%
36
Andrew Johnson, 1865-1869
167.94
33.59%
37
John Tyler, 1841-1845
161.15
32.23%
38
Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-1923
148.97
29.79%
39
Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857
132.72
26.54%
40
James Buchanan, 1857-1861
131.54
26.31%