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Within each column
 Blue  backgrounds indicate rankings in the first quartile.
 Green  backgrounds indicate rankings in the second quartile.
 Yellow-green backgrounds indicate the median ranking of an odd number of presidents.[a]
 Yellow  backgrounds indicate rankings in the third quartile.
 Orange  backgrounds indicate rankings in the fourth quartile.

Note: click the "sort" icon at the head of each column to view the rankings for each survey in numerical order.

No.
[b]
[c]
President Political party
Schl. 1948[1]
Schl. 1962[2]
M-B 1982
CT 1982
Siena 1982
Siena 1990
Siena 1994
R-McI 1996[3]
C-SPAN 2000
WSJ 2000
Siena 2002
WSJ 2005[5]
Times 2008[6]
C-SPAN 2009[7]
Siena 2010[8][9]
USPC 2011[10]
APSA 2015[11]
PHN 2016[12]
C-SPAN 2017[13]
APSA 2018[14]
Siena 2018[15]
C-SPAN 2021[16]
Siena 2022[17]
1 George Washington Independent 2 2 3 2 4 4 4 3 2 (tie) 3 1 4 1 2 2 4 3 2 3 2 2 1 2 3
2 John Adams Federalist 9 10 9 15 10 14 12 14 11 16 13 12 13 13 17 17 12 15 10 19 14 14 15 16
3 Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican 5 5 4 5 2 3 5 4 4 7 4 5 4 4 7 5 4 5 5 7 5 5 7 5
4 James Madison Democratic-Republican 14 12 14 17 9 8 9 10 17 18 15 9 17 15 20 6 14 13 15 17 12 7 16 10
5 James Monroe Democratic-Republican 12 18 15 16 15 11 15 13 15 14 16 8 16 21 14 7 13 16 14 13 18 8 12 12
6 John Quincy Adams Democratic-Republican 11 13 16 19 17 16 17 18 18 19 20 17 25 16 19 19 20 22 17 21 23 18 17 17
7 Andrew Jackson Democratic 6 6 7 7 13 9 11 8 5 13 6 13 10 14 13 14 9 9 16 18 15 19 22 23
8 Martin Van Buren Democratic 15 17 20 18 21 21 22 21 21 30 23 24 27 40 31 23 27 25 27 34 27 25 34 29
9 William H. Harrison Whig 26 35 28 35 37 36 39 39 35 [c] 39 38 42 39 40 40
10 John Tyler Independent[18] 22 25 28 28 34 33 34 34 32 36 34 37 35 31 35 37 37 36 36 39 37 37 39 39
11 James K. Polk Democratic 10 8 (tie) 12 10 12 13 14 11 9 12 10 11 9 9 12 12 16 19 22 14 20 12 18 15
12 Zachary Taylor Whig 25 24 27 26 29 34 33 29 29 28 31 34 33 28 29 33 33 33 33 31 35 30 35 36
13 Millard Fillmore Whig 24 26 29 31 32 32 35 36 31 35 35 38 36 33 37 38 35 37 39 37 38 38 38 38
14 Franklin Pierce Democratic 27 28 31 33 35 36 37 37 33 (tie) 39 37 (tie) 39 38 41 40 40 39 40 40 41 41 40 42 41
15 James Buchanan Democratic 26 29 33 34 37 38 39 40 38 41[d] 39[d] 41 40[d] 42[d] 42[d] 42 40[d] 43[d] 41[d] 43[d] 43 43 44[d] 44
16 Abraham Lincoln Republican 1 1 1 1 3 2 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 3 2 1 2 1 1 3 1 2
17 Andrew Johnson National Union[19] 19 23 32 30 38 39 40 39 37 40 36 42[d] 37 24 41 43[d] 36 41 37 42 40 44[d] 43 45[d]
18 Ulysses S. Grant Republican 28 30 35 32 36 37 38 38 33 (tie) 33 32 35 29 18 23 26 29 28 23 22 21 24 20 21
19 Rutherford B. Hayes Republican 13 14 22 22 22 23 24 25 23 26 22 27 24 27 33 31 30 30 32 32 29 32 33 31
20 James A. Garfield Republican 25 30 26 30 29 33 34 (tie) 28 27 [c] 31 29 34 28 27 27
21 Chester A. Arthur Republican 17 21 (tie) 23 24 24 26 27 28 26 32 26 30 26 22 32 25 32 32 35 35 31 34 30 33
22, 24 Grover Cleveland Democratic 8 11 17 13 18 17 19 16 13 17 12 20 12 19 21 20 21 23 24 23 24 23 25 26
23 Benjamin Harrison Republican 21 20 26 25 31 29 30 31 19 31 27 32 30 29 (tie) 30 34 34 29 30 30 32 35 32 34
25 William McKinley Republican 18 15 18 11 19 19 18 17 16 15 14 19 14 17 16 21 17 21 20 16 19 20 14 22
26 Theodore Roosevelt Republican 7 7 5 4 5 5 3 5 6 4 5 3 5 5 4 2 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
27 William H. Taft Republican 16 16 19 20 20 20 21 20 22 24 19 21 20 29 (tie) 24 24 25 20 25 24 22 22 23 25
28 Woodrow Wilson Democratic 4 4 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 6 11 6 11 10 9 8 6 10 6 11 11 11 13 13
29 Warren G. Harding Republican 29[d] 31[d] 36[d] 36[d] 39[d] 40[d] 41[d] 41[d] 39[d] 38 37 (tie) 40 39 34 (tie) 38 41 38 42 38 40 39 41 37 42
30 Calvin Coolidge Republican 23 27 30 29 30 31 36 33 30 27 25 29 23 26 26 29 28 27 31 27 28 31 24 32
31 Herbert Hoover Republican 20 19 21 21 27 28 29 24 33 (tie) 34 29 31 31 36 34 36 26 38 29 36 36 36 36 37
32 Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic 3 3 2 3 1 1 1 2 2 (tie) 2 3 1 3 3 3 1 1 3 1 3 3 2 3 1
33 Harry S. Truman Democratic 8 (tie) 8 8 7 7 7 7 8 5 7 7 7 7 5 9 7 6 8 6 6 9 6 7
34 Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican 21 (tie) 11 9 11 12 8 9 10 9 9 10 8 6 8 10 10 7 9 5 7 6 5 6
35 John F. Kennedy Democratic 13 14 8 10 10 15 12 8 18 14 15 11 6 11 15 14 12 8 16 10 8 9
36 Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic 10 12 14 15 13 12 14 10 17 15 18 12 11 16 11 12 11 10 10 16 11 8
37 Richard Nixon Republican 34 35 28 25 23 32 36 25 33 26 32 37 (tie) 27 30 23 34 26 28 33 29 31 28
38 Gerald Ford Republican 24 23 23 27 32 27 28 23 28 28 28 25 22 28 24 24 28 25 25 27 28 30
39 Jimmy Carter Democratic 25 27 33 24 25 19 27 22 30 25 34 32 25 32 18 26 18 26 26 26 26 24
40[e] Ronald Reagan Republican 16 22 20 26 25 11 8 16 6 8 10 18 8 11 13 9 9 13 9 18
41[e] George H. W. Bush Republican 18 31 22 24 20 21 22 21 20 18 22 22 17 21 20 17 21 21 20
42[e] Bill Clinton Democratic 16 23 20 21 24 18 22 23 15 13 19 8 19 15 13 15 19 14
43[e] George W. Bush Republican 23 19 37 (tie) 36 39 31 35 34 33 30 33 29 35
44[e] Barack Obama Democratic 15 (8)[f] 18 7 12 8 17 10 11
45[e] Donald Trump Republican 44[d] 42 41 43
46[e] Joe Biden Democratic 19
Total surveyed[b][c] 29 31 36 36 39 40 41 41 39 41 39 42 40 42 42 43 40 43 41 43 44 44 44 45
  1. ^ Quartiles were determined by splitting the data into an upper and lower half and then splitting these halves each into two quartiles. When splitting an odd total number of rankings, the median is given an intermediate color.
  2. ^ a b Note: Grover Cleveland was elected to two non-consecutive terms, serving as both the 22nd and 24th president of the United States; he is the only person to have held the office in non-consecutive terms. Because Cleveland had two presidencies, the number of persons who have served as president is one less than the number of presidents in order of succession.
  3. ^ a b c d William Henry Harrison and James Garfield are sometimes omitted from rankings of the presidents because of the brevity of their terms in office. In addition to Grover Cleveland's two presidential numbers, this contributes to the number of ranks assigned by some sources being less than the presidential complement of the era.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Underline within a column indicates a given survey's lowest-ranking president (or presidents, in the event of a tie for last place).
  5. ^ a b c d e f g Italics within row indicate rank awarded before president had completed term in office.
  6. ^ Obama would place 8th based on provisional scores of the USPC 2011 survey, but was not given a ranking in the final results as he had not yet completed his term when the survey was conducted.

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Scholar survey summary

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Within each column
 Blue  backgrounds indicate rankings in the first quartile.
 Green  backgrounds indicate rankings in the second quartile.
 Yellow-green backgrounds indicate the median ranking of an odd number of presidents.[a]
 Yellow  backgrounds indicate rankings in the third quartile.
 Orange  backgrounds indicate rankings in the fourth quartile.

Note: click the "sort" icon at the head of each column to view the rankings for each survey in numerical order.

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No.
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President Political party
Schl. 1962[2]
M-B 1982
CT 1982
Siena 1982
Siena 1990
Siena 1994
R-McI 1996[3]
C-SPAN 2000
WSJ 2000
Siena 2002
WSJ 2005[5]
Times 2008[6]
C-SPAN 2009[20]
Siena 2010[8][9]
USPC 2011[10]
APSA 2015[11]
PHN 2016[12]
C-SPAN 2017[13]
APSA 2018[14]
Siena 2018[21]
C-SPAN 2021[16]
Mantz 2023[22]
1 George Washington Independent 2 2 3 2 4 4 4 3 2 (tie) 3 1 4 1 2 2 4 3 2 3 2 2 1 2 3
2 John Adams Federalist 9 10 9 15 10 14 12 14 11 16 13 12 13 13 17 17 12 15 10 19 14 14 15 16
3 Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican 5 5 4 5 2 3 5 4 4 7 4 5 4 4 7 5 4 5 5 7 5 5 7 55D; was 5
4 James Madison Democratic-Republican 14 12 14 17 9 8 9 10 17 18 15 9 17 15 20 6 14 13 15 17 12 7 16 10
5 James Monroe Democratic-Republican 12 18 15 16 15 11 15 13 15 14 16 8 16 21 14 7 13 16 14 13 18 8 12 12
6 John Quincy Adams Democratic-Republican 11 13 16 19 17 16 17 18 18 19 20 17 25 16 19 19 20 22 17 21 23 18 17 17
7 Andrew Jackson Democratic 6 6 7 7 13 9 11 8 5 13 6 13 10 14 13 14 9 9 16 18 15 19 22 23
8 Martin Van Buren Democratic 15 17 20 18 21 21 22 21 21 30 23 24 27 40 31 23 27 25 27 34 27 25 34 29
9 William H. Harrison Whig 26 35 28 35 37 36 39 39 35 [c] 39 38 42 39 40 40
10 John Tyler Independent[18] 22 25 28 28 34 33 34 34 32 36 34 37 35 31 35 37 37 36 36 39 37 37 39 39
11 James K. Polk Democratic 10 8 (tie) 12 10 12 13 14 11 9 12 10 11 9 9 12 12 16 19 22 14 20 12 18 10B; was 15
12 Zachary Taylor Whig 25 24 27 26 29 34 33 29 29 28 31 34 33 28 29 33 33 33 33 31 35 30 35 36
13 Millard Fillmore Whig 24 26 29 31 32 32 35 36 31 35 35 38 36 33 37 38 35 37 39 37 38 38 38 38
14 Franklin Pierce Democratic 27 28 31 33 35 36 37 37 33 (tie) 39 37 (tie) 39 38 41 40 40 39 40 40 41 41 40 42 41
15 James Buchanan Democratic 26 29 33 34 37 38 39 40 38 41[d] 39[d] 41 40[d] 42[d] 42[d] 42 40[d] 43[d] 41[d] 43[d] 43 43 44[d] 44
16 Abraham Lincoln Republican 1 1 1 1 3 2 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 3 2 1 2 1 1 3 1 2
17 Andrew Johnson National Union[19] 19 23 32 30 38 39 40 39 37 40 36 42[d] 37 24 41 43[d] 36 41 37 42 40 44[d] 43 45[d]
18 Ulysses S. Grant Republican 28 30 35 32 36 37 38 38 33 (tie) 33 32 35 29 18 23 26 29 28 23 22 21 24 20 21
19 Rutherford B. Hayes Republican 13 14 22 22 22 23 24 25 23 26 22 27 24 27 33 31 30 30 32 32 29 32 33 31
20 James A. Garfield Republican 25 30 26 30 29 33 34 (tie) 28 27 [c] 31 29 34 28 27 27
21 Chester A. Arthur Republican 17 21 (tie) 23 24 24 26 27 28 26 32 26 30 26 22 32 25 32 32 35 35 31 34 30 33
22, 24 Grover Cleveland Democratic 8 11 17 13 18 17 19 16 13 17 12 20 12 19 21 20 21 23 24 23 24 23 25 26
23 Benjamin Harrison Republican 21 20 26 25 31 29 30 31 19 31 27 32 30 29 (tie) 30 34 34 29 30 30 32 35 32 34
25 William McKinley Republican 18 15 18 11 19 19 18 17 16 15 14 19 14 17 16 21 17 21 20 16 19 20 14 22
26 Theodore Roosevelt Republican 7 7 5 4 5 5 3 5 6 4 5 3 5 5 4 2 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
27 William H. Taft Republican 16 16 19 20 20 20 21 20 22 24 19 21 20 29 (tie) 24 24 25 20 25 24 22 22 23 25
28 Woodrow Wilson Democratic 4 4 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 6 11 6 11 10 9 8 6 10 6 11 11 11 13 13
29 Warren G. Harding Republican 29[d] 31[d] 36[d] 36[d] 39[d] 40[d] 41[d] 41[d] 39[d] 38 37 (tie) 40 39 34 (tie) 38 41 38 42 38 40 39 41 37 8B; was 42
30 Calvin Coolidge Republican 23 27 30 29 30 31 36 33 30 27 25 29 23 26 26 29 28 27 31 27 28 31 24 32
31 Herbert Hoover Republican 20 19 21 21 27 28 29 24 33 (tie) 34 29 31 31 36 34 36 26 38 29 36 36 36 36 37
32 Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic 3 3 2 3 1 1 1 2 2 (tie) 2 3 1 3 3 3 1 1 3 1 3 3 2 3 1
33 Harry S. Truman Democratic 8 (tie) 8 8 7 7 7 7 8 5 7 7 7 7 5 9 7 6 8 6 6 9 6 7
34 Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican 21 (tie) 11 9 11 12 8 9 10 9 9 10 8 6 8 10 10 7 9 5 7 6 5 55c; was 6
35 John F. Kennedy Democratic 13 14 8 10 10 15 12 8 18 14 15 11 6 11 15 14 12 8 16 10 8 9
36 Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic 10 12 14 15 13 12 14 10 17 15 18 12 11 16 11 12 11 10 10 16 11 55B; was 8
37 Richard Nixon Republican 34 35 28 25 23 32 36 25 33 26 32 37 (tie) 27 30 23 34 26 28 33 29 31 28
38 Gerald Ford Republican 24 23 23 27 32 27 28 23 28 28 28 25 22 28 24 24 28 25 25 27 28 30
39 Jimmy Carter Democratic 25 27 33 24 25 19 27 22 30 25 34 32 25 32 18 26 18 26 26 26 26 9B
40[e] Ronald Reagan Republican 16 22 20 26 25 11 8 16 6 8 10 18 8 11 13 9 9 13 9 18
41[e] George H. W. Bush Republican 18 31 22 24 20 21 22 21 20 18 22 22 17 21 20 17 21 21 20
42[e] Bill Clinton Democratic 16 23 20 21 24 18 22 23 15 13 19 8 19 15 13 15 19 14
43[e] George W. Bush Republican 23 19 37 (tie) 36 39 31 35 34 33 30 33 29 35
44[e] Barack Obama Democratic 15 (8)[f] 18 7 12 8 17 10 8C; was 11
45[e] Donald Trump Republican 44[d] 42 41 43
46[e] Joe Biden Democratic 19
Total surveyed[b][c] 29 31 36 36 39 40 41 41 39 41 39 42 40 42 42 43 40 43 41 43 44 44 44 45

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  1. ^ Quartiles were determined by splitting the data into an upper and lower half and then splitting these halves each into two quartiles. When splitting an odd total number of rankings, the median is given an intermediate color.
  2. ^ a b Note: Grover Cleveland was elected to two non-consecutive terms, serving as both the 22nd and 24th president of the United States; he is the only person to have held the office in non-consecutive terms. Because Cleveland had two presidencies, the number of persons who have served as president is one less than the number of presidents in order of succession.
  3. ^ a b c d William Henry Harrison and James Garfield are sometimes omitted from rankings of the presidents because of the brevity of their terms in office. In addition to Grover Cleveland's two presidential numbers, this contributes to the number of ranks assigned by some sources being less than the presidential complement of the era.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Underline within a column indicates a given survey's lowest-ranking president (or presidents, in the event of a tie for last place).
  5. ^ a b c d e f g Italics within row indicate rank awarded before president had completed term in office.
  6. ^ Obama would place 8th based on provisional scores of the USPC 2011 survey, but was not given a ranking in the final results as he had not yet completed his term when the survey was conducted.

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  5. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Wall Street Journal Online was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ a b Nico Hines (October 31, 2008). "The Greatest US Presidents: The Times US presidential rankings". The Times. Archived from the original on August 10, 2021. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
    Print version of top 14: Ben MacIntyre (1 November 2008) "The big question: who is the greatest president of all time?" The Times. London. p. 42.
  7. ^ "Lincoln Wins: Honest Abe tops new presidential survey". CNN. February 16, 2009. Archived from the original on April 4, 2021. Retrieved October 30, 2010.
  8. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Siena_2010 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Thomas 3&CPISortType=&CPIorderBy was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ a b United States Presidency Centre, UK Survey of US Presidents: Results: Total Scores and Overall Ranking Archived September 29, 2021, at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Brandon Rottinghaus was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  12. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference PHN was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  13. ^ a b "Total Scores/Overall Rankings". Presidential Historians Survey 2017. C-SPAN. Archived from the original on March 1, 2017. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
  14. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference How Does Trump Stack Up Against the Best—and Worst—Presidents? was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  15. ^ "Presidents 2018 Rank by Category" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on August 9, 2021. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
  16. ^ a b "Presidential Historians Survey 2021". C-SPAN. Archived from the original on July 3, 2021. Retrieved June 30, 2021.
  17. ^ "Siena College Research Institute: 2022 Survey of U.S. Presidents: Presidents Rank Over Time" (PDF). Retrieved June 23, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  18. ^ a b Tyler was elected on the Whig ticket as Harrison's vice president, but Tyler became an independent after the Whigs expelled him from the party in 1841.
  19. ^ a b When he ran for reelection in 1864, Republican Abraham Lincoln formed a bipartisan electoral alliance with War Democrats by selecting Democrat Andrew Johnson as his running mate, and running on the National Union Party ticket. Not until 1868, long after the National Union Party had disbanded, did Johnson rejoin the Democratic Party.
  20. ^ "Lincoln Wins: Honest Abe tops new presidential survey". CNN. February 16, 2009. Archived from the original on April 4, 2021. Retrieved October 30, 2010.
  21. ^ "Presidents 2018 Rank by Category" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on August 9, 2021. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
  22. ^ "Siena College Research Institute: 2022 Survey of U.S. Presidents: Presidents Rank Over Time" (PDF). Retrieved June 23, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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