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:
Pursued Equal Justice For All
President's Name
Final Score 
 Category Ranking
 Overall Ranking
Abraham Lincoln
91.1
1
1
Harry S. Truman
78.6
2
7
Theodore Roosevelt
76.6
3
3
Lyndon Baines Johnson
76.1
4
19
John F. Kennedy
74.7
5
12
Jimmy Carter
74.7
6
27
John Quincy Adams
71.8
7
15
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
71.4
8
4
Thomas Jefferson
69.4
9
5
George Washington
68.6
10
2
John Adams
67.9
11
11
Ronald Reagan
67.2
12
6
Dwight D. Eisenhower
65.9
13
8
James Madison
65
14
10
George Bush
63.5
15
16
James Monroe
61.9
16
9
Woodrow Wilson
60
17
13
Gerald Ford
59.6
18
23
William Howard Taft
55.8
19
24
Ulysses S. Grant
54.8
20
29
Calvin Coolidge
53.9
21
22
Grover Cleveland
53.8
22
21
Richard Nixon
53.6
23
20
William McKinley
52.7
24
18
Andrew Jackson
52.1
25
14
Bill Clinton
51.9
26
36
Herbert Hoover
51.7
27
33
Rutherford B. Hayes
51.4
28
26
Andrew Johnson
51
29
38
Martin Van Buren
50.4
30
30
James Garfield
49.7
31
28
James K. Polk
49.7
32
17
Benjamin Harrison
48.9
33
31
Chester Arthur
47.5
34
34
Zachary Taylor
46.4
35
25
William Henry Harrison
42.6
36
35
John Tyler
42.1
37
32
Millard Fillmore
41.8
38
37
Warren G. Harding
40
39
40
Franklin Pierce
39.5
40
39
James Buchanan
33.6
41
41
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