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List of presidential rankings Feb 16, 2009 12:00 AM A A Presidential rankings according to 65 historians and professional observers of the presidency surveyed by the cable channel C-SPAN. Participants ranked each president by 10 leadership attributes. President 2009 rank2000 rank Abraham Lincoln 1 1 George Washington 2 3 Franklin D. Roosevelt 3 2 Theodore Roosevelt 4 4 Harry S. Truman 5 5 John F. Kennedy 6 8 Thomas Jefferson 7 7 Dwight D. Eisenhower 8 9 Woodrow Wilson 9 6 Ronald Reagan 10 11 Lyndon B. Johnson 11 10 James K. Polk 12 12 Andrew Jackson 13 13 James Monroe 14 14 Bill Clinton 15 21 William McKinley 16 15 John Adams 17 16 George H.W. Bush 18 20 John Quincy Adams 19 19 James Madison 20 18 Grover Cleveland 21 17 Gerald R. Ford 22 23 Ulysses S. Grant 23 33 William Howard Taft 24 24 Jimmy Carter 25 22 Calvin Coolidge 26 27 Richard M. Nixon 27 25 James A. Garfield 28 29 Zachary Taylor 29 28 Benjamin Harrison 30 31 Martin Van Buren 31 30 Chester A. Arthur 32 32 Rutherford B. Hayes 33 26 Herbert Hoover 34 34 John Tyler 35 36 George W. Bush 36 NA Millard Fillmore 37 35 Warren G. Harding 38 38 William Henry Harrison 39 37 Franklin D. Pierce 40 39 Andrew Johnson 41 40 James Buchanan 42 41 ——— On the Net: http:www.c-span.org/PresidentialSurvey/default.aspx