American Presidents

A Site to Complement C-SPAN's 20th Anniversary Television Series, American Presidents: Life Portraits
March-December 1999
C-SPAN Survey
of Presidential Leadership

Viewer Survey Results Category:
Economic Management
President's Name
Final Score 
 Category Ranking
 Overall Ranking
Theodore Roosevelt
77
1
3
Abraham Lincoln
75.4
2
1
George Washington
73.3
3
2
Thomas Jefferson
72.8
4
5
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
72.6
5
4
Harry S. Truman
71.2
6
7
Ronald Reagan
70.2
7
6
Dwight D. Eisenhower
68.3
8
8
James Monroe
67.7
9
9
James Madison
65.7
10
10
John Adams
64.5
11
11
Woodrow Wilson
64.1
12
13
John F. Kennedy
64
13
12
James K. Polk
62.9
14
17
John Quincy Adams
61.8
15
15
Andrew Jackson
60.1
16
14
William McKinley
58.8
17
18
Richard Nixon
57.7
18
20
Bill Clinton
57.5
19
36
Calvin Coolidge
56.8
20
22
George Bush
54.2
21
16
William Howard Taft
54
22
24
Grover Cleveland
53.5
23
21
Lyndon Baines Johnson
52.9
24
19
Rutherford B. Hayes
50.9
25
26
Zachary Taylor
49.5
26
25
John Tyler
48.7
27
32
James Garfield
47.5
28
28
Chester Arthur
47.2
29
34
Gerald Ford
47.1
30
23
Andrew Johnson
46.4
31
38
Benjamin Harrison
46.3
32
31
Martin Van Buren
45.5
33
30
Millard Fillmore
44.2
34
37
Franklin Pierce
42.5
35
39
William Henry Harrison
41.6
36
35
Ulysses S. Grant
41.3
37
29
Warren G. Harding
40.9
38
40
James Buchanan
39.5
39
41
Herbert Hoover
34.6
40
33
Jimmy Carter
34.3
41
27
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