Statistics for U.S. Presidents Ranked by Scholars

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Overall Ranking	U.S. President	Average Rank	Democratic Scholars	Independent/Other Scholars	Republican Scholars	% Correct
1	Abraham Lincoln	1.33	1	1	2	100%
2	George Washington	2.00	3	2	1	100%
3	Franklin D. Roosevelt	2.67	2	3	3	97%
4	Theodore Roosevelt	4.00	4	4	4	91%
6	Dwight D. Eisenhower	7.33	9	6	7	82%
5	Thomas Jefferson	5.33	5	5	6	82%
7	Harry Truman	7.67	7	8	8	76%
9	Barack Obama	11.33	6	12	16	74%
8	Ronald Reagan	8.67	14	7	5	74%
44	James Buchanan	43.33	43	43	44	71%
10	Woodrow Wilson	12.33	10	15	12	71%
43	Donald Trump	42.67	44	44	40	68%
13	James Madison	14.00	11	9	22	68%
11	Lyndon Johnson	13.33	8	13	19	68%
12	George H.W. Bush	13.33	18	11	11	62%
16	Andrew Jackson	14.67	17	17	10	59%
40	Andrew Johnson	40.00	38	41	41	56%
42	William Henry Harrison	42.33	42	42	43	56%
14	Bill Clinton	14.00	13	14	15	53%
15	John Adams	14.00	15	10	17	53%
18	James Monroe	17.33	16	18	18	50%
19	John F. Kennedy	18.33	12	19	24	50%
17	William McKinley	15.67	22	16	9	50%
35	Herbert Hoover	34.00	37	35	30	47%
37	John Tyler	36.67	36	37	37	47%
22	Ulysses S. Grant	22.00	19	22	25	47%
41	Franklin Pierce	40.67	40	40	42	44%
28	George W. Bush	28.00	30	31	23	44%
30	Jimmy Carter	29.33	24	32	32	44%
36	Zachary Taylor	35.00	35	34	36	44%
20	James K. Polk	18.33	21	21	13	41%
38	Millard Fillmore	38.67	39	38	39	41%
34	James Garfield	33.00	34	30	35	38%
27	Rutherford B. Hayes	28.00	28	28	28	38%
39	Warren G. Harding	39.33	41	39	38	38%
21	William Howard Taft	19.67	25	20	14	38%
31	Chester A. Arthur	30.67	29	29	34	35%
32	Richard M. Nixon	32.00	31	36	29	35%
25	Gerald Ford	26.00	26	26	26	32%
23	Grover Cleveland	22.00	23	23	20	32%
24	John Quincy Adams	23.67	20	24	27	32%
29	Martin Van Buren	29.00	27	27	33	32%
33	Benjamin Harrison	32.00	32	33	31	29%
26	Cavlvin Coolidge	26.33	33	25	21	29%