U.S. Presidents Who Served in the Military - Statistics

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Years of Service	Highest Rank	President	% Correct
1775-1783, 1798-1799	Lieutenant General	George Washington	100%
1915-1953, 1961-1969	General	Dwight D. Eisenhower	95%
1942-1955	Lieutenant	George H. W. Bush	95%
1839-1854, 1861-1869	General	Ulysses S. Grant	95%
1968-1974	Lieutenant	George W. Bush	94%
1941-1945	Lieutenant	John F. Kennedy	94%
1940-1942, 1942-1964	Commander	Lyndon B. Johnson	91%
1882-1886, 1898	Colonel	Theodore Roosevelt	91%
1780-1781, 1792-1821, 1814-1821	Major General	Andrew Jackson	90%
1862-1865	Brigadier General	Andrew Johnson	90%
1942-1966	Commander	Richard Nixon	89%
1937-1945	Captain	Ronald Reagan	89%
1775-1776	Colonel	Thomas Jefferson	89%
1946-1961	Lieutenant	Jimmy Carter	85%
1832	Captain	Abraham Lincoln	84%
1775-1776, 1814	Colonel	James Madison	83%
1942-1946	Lieutenant Commander	Gerald Ford	81%
1775-1777, 1777-1780	Colonel	James Monroe	78%
1905-1911, 1917-1919, 1920-1953	Colonel	Harry S. Truman	77%
1808-1809	Major General	Zachary Taylor	77%
1861-1863	Major General	James A. Garfield	75%
1814	Private	James Buchanan	73%
1813	Captain	John Tyler	73%
1862-1865	Brigadier General	Benjamin Harrison	72%
1821-1825	Captain	James K. Polk	72%
1791-1798, 1811, 1812-1814	Major General	William Henry Harrison	72%
1861-1865	Brigadier General	Rutherford B. Hayes	68%
1861-1865	Major	William McKinley	68%
1831-1847, 1847-1848	Brigadier General	Franklin Pierce	65%
1820's-1830's, 1860's-1870's	Captain	Millard Fillmore	63%
1857-1863	Brigadier General	Chester A. Arthur	59%

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