US Presidential Rankings - Reagan

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US Presidential Rankings

	A.	B.	C.	D.	E.
	Siena Research Institute (SRI) July 1, 2010 1	C-SPAN 2009 2	The Times Oct. 28, 2008 3	Wall Street Journal & Federalist Society Feb.-Mar. 2005 4	Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. 1996 5
1	Franklin Roosevelt	Abraham Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln	George Washington	Abraham Lincoln
2	Theodore Roosevelt	George Washington	George Washington	Abraham Lincoln	George Washington
3	Abraham Lincoln	Franklin Roosevelt	Franklin Roosevelt	Franklin Roosevelt	Franklin Roosevelt
4	George Washington	Theodore Roosevelt	Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Jefferson
5	Thomas Jefferson	Harry Truman	Theodore Roosevelt	Theodore Roosevelt	Andrew Jackson
6	James Madison	John Kennedy	Dwight Eisenhower	Ronald Reagan	Theodore Roosevelt
7	James Monroe	Thomas Jefferson	Harry Truman	Harry Truman	Woodrow Wilson
8	Woodrow Wilson	Dwight Eisenhower	Ronald Reagan	Dwight Eisenhower	Harry Truman
9	Harry Truman	Woodrow Wilson	James Polk	James Polk	James Polk
10	Dwight Eisenhower	Ronald Reagan	Woodrow Wilson	Andrew Jackson	Dwight Eisenhower
11	John Kennedy	Lyndon Johnson	John Kennedy	Woodrow Wilson	John Adams
12	James Polk	James Polk	Lyndon Johnson	Grover Cleveland	John Kennedy
13	Bill Clinton	Andrew Jackson	John Adams	John Adams	Grover Cleveland
14	Andrew Jackson	James Monroe	Andrew Jackson	William McKinley	Lyndon Johnson
15	Barack Obama	Bill Clinton	James Madison	John Kennedy	James Monroe
16	Lyndon Johnson	William McKinley	John Quincy Adams	James Monroe	William McKinley
17	John Adams	John Adams	William McKinley	James Madison	James Madison
18	Ronald Reagan	George H.W. Bush	Ulysses Grant	Lyndon Johnson	John Quincy Adams
19	John Quincy Adams	John Quincy Adams	Grover Cleveland	George W. Bush	Benjamin Harrison
20	Grover Cleveland	James Madison	George H.W. Bush	William Taft	Bill Clinton
21	William McKinley	Grover Cleveland	James Monroe	George H.W. Bush	Martin Van Buren
22	George H.W. Bush	Gerald Ford	Chester Arthur	Bill Clinton	William Taft
23	Martin Van Buren	Ulysses Grant	Bill Clinton	Calvin Coolidge	Rutherford Hayes
24	William Taft	William Taft	Andrew Johnson	Rutherford Hayes	George H.W. Bush
25	Chester Arthur	Jimmy Carter	Gerald Ford	John Quincy Adams	Ronald Reagan
26	Ulysses Grant	Calvin Coolidge	Calvin Coolidge	Chester Arthur	Chester Arthur
27	James Garfield	Richard Nixon	Rutherford Hayes	Martin Van Buren	Jimmy Carter
28	Gerald Ford	James Garfield	Zachary Taylor	Gerald Ford	Gerald Ford
29	Calvin Coolidge	Zachary Taylor	Benjamin Harrison	Ulysses Grant	Zachary Taylor
30	Richard Nixon	Benjamin Harrison	William Taft	Benjamin Harrison	Calvin Coolidge
31	Rutherford Hayes	Martin Van Buren	John Tyler	Herbert Hoover	Millard Fillmore
32	Jimmy Carter	Chester Arthur	Jimmy Carter	Richard Nixon	John Tyler
33	Zachary Taylor	Rutherford Hayes	Millard Fillmore	Zachary Taylor	Franklin Pierce
34	Benjamin Harrison	Herbert Hoover	James Garfield	Jimmy Carter	Ulysses Grant
35	William Harrison	John Tyler	Warren Harding	John Tyler	Herbert Hoover
36	Herbert Hoover	George W. Bush	Herbert Hoover	Millard Fillmore	Richard Nixon
37	John Tyler	Millard Fillmore	George W. Bush	Andrew Johnson	Andrew Johnson
38	Millard Fillmore	Warren Harding	Richard Nixon	Franklin Pierce	James Buchanan
39	George W. Bush	William Harrison	William Harrison	Warren Harding	Warren Harding
40	Franklin Pierce	Franklin Pierce	Martin Van Buren	James Buchanan
41	Warren Harding	Andrew Johnson	Franklin Pierce
42	James Buchanan	James Buchanan	James Buchanan
43	Andrew Johnson

Sources and notes:

Participants were 238 "presidential scholars, historians and political scientists;" "Presidents 2010 Rank by Category," www.siena.edu, July 1, 2010
Participants were 65 "presidential historians" and "other professional observers of the presidency;" "C-SPAN 2009 Historians Presidential Leadership Survey," www.c-span.org, 2009
Participants were 8 correspondents, editors, bureau chiefs, columnists, and writers of The Times; "Who's the Greatest? The Times US Presidential Rankings," by Jeremy Griffin and Nico Hines, www.timesonline.co.uk, Oct. 28, 2008
Because of the short durations of their terms, William Henry Harrison and James Garfield were excluded from this ranking; participants were 85 "professors of history, law, political science and economics... the presidents are ranked in order of mean score, adjusted to give equal weight to Democratic- and Republican-leaning respondents;" "The Rankings," www.opinionjournal.com, Sep. 12, 2005
Participants were 32 "historians and close observers of presidential leadership;" "Rating the Presidents: Washington to Clinton," by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Political Science Quarterly, Summer 1997