Schlesinger Poll (1948)
Great 1. Lincoln 2. Washington 3. F. Roosevelt 4. Wilson 5. Jefferson 6. Jackson Near great
Average
Below average
Failure
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Schlesinger Poll (1962)
Great 1. Lincoln 2. Washington 3. F. Roosevelt 4. Wilson 5. Jefferson Near great
Average
Below average
Failure
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Dodder Poll (1970)
Accomplishments of administration 1. Lincoln 2. F. Roosevelt 3. Washington 4. Jefferson 5. T. Roosevelt 6. Truman 7. Wilson 8. Jackson 9. L. Johnson 10. Polk 11. J. Adams 12. Kennedy 13. Monroe 14. Cleveland 15. Madison 16. Taft 17. McKinley 18. J. Q. Adams 19. Hoover 20. Eisenhower 21. Andrew Johnson 22. Van Buren 23. Arthur 24. Hayes 25. Tyler 26. B. Harrison 27. Taylor 28. Buchanan 29. Fillmore 30. Coolidge 31. Pierce 32. Grant |
DiClerico Poll (1977)
10 Greatest 1. Lincoln 2. Washington 3. F. Roosevelt 4. Jefferson 5. T. Roosevelt 6. Wilson 7. Jackson 8. Truman 9. Polk 10. J. Adams Tribune Poll (1982) 10 Best Presidents 1. Lincoln (best) 2. Washington 3. F. Roosevelt 4. T. Roosevelt 5. Jefferson 6. Wilson 7. Jackson 8. Truman 9. Eisenhower 10. Polk (10th best) Ten worst presidents 1. Harding (worst)
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Murray Poll (1982)
Presidential rank 1. Lincoln 2. F. Roosevelt 3. Washington 4. Jefferson 5. T. Roosevelt 6. Wilson 7. Jackson 8. Truman 9. John Adams 10. Lyndon Johnson 11. Eisenhower 12 Polk 13. Kennedy 14. Madison 15. Monroe 16. John Quincy Adams 17. Cleveland 18. McKinley 19. Taft 20. Van Buren 21. Hoover 22. Hayes 23. Arthur 24. Ford 25. Carter 26. B. Harrison 27. Taylor 28. Tyler 29. Fillmore 30. Coolidge 31. Pierce 32. Andrew Johnson 33. Buchanan 34. Nixon 35. Grant |
CNN Poll (Feb. 2000) Presidential Rank 1. Abraham Lincoln 2. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 3. George Washington 4. Theodore Roosevelt 5. Harry S. Truman 6. Woodrow Wilson 7. Thomas Jefferson 8. John F. Kennedy 9. Dwight Eisenhower 10. Lyndon B. Johnson 11.Ronald Reagan 12. James K. Polk 13. Andrew Jackson 14. James Monroe 15 William McKinley 16. John Adams 17. Grover Cleveland 18. James Madison 19. John Quincy Adams 20. George Bush 21. Bill Clinton 22. Jimmy Carter 23. Gerald R. Ford 24. William Howard Taft 25. Richard M. Nixon 26 Rutherford B. Hayes 27. Calvin Coolidge 28. Zachary Taylor 29. James Garfield 30. Martin Van Buren 31. Benjamin Harrison 32. Chester Arthur 33. Ulysses S. Grant 34. Herbert Hoover 35. Millard Fillmore 36. John Tyler 37. William Henry Harrison 38. Warren Harding 39. Franklin Pierce 40. Andrew Johnson 41. James Buchanan |
Note: These ratings result from surveys of scholars ranging in number from 55 to 950.
Sources:
Henry J. Abraham, Justices and Presidents:
Appointments to
the Supreme Court, 2d ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985),
380-383.
Arthur Murphy, "Evaluating the Presidents of the United States,"
Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 14 (1984), pp. 117-126.
Jack Nelson, "Lincoln, FDR Ranked 1-2 in Leadership Poll," Los Angeles
Times,February 21, 2000, p. A17.