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:
Administrative Skills
President's Name
Final Score 
 Category Ranking
 Overall Ranking
Abraham Lincoln
81.8
1
1
George Washington
80.9
2
2
Thomas Jefferson
79.7
3
5
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
78.6
4
4
Theodore Roosevelt
78.5
5
3
Harry S. Truman
73.6
6
7
James Monroe
70.3
7
9
James Madison
70.2
8
10
Dwight D. Eisenhower
69.6
9
8
John Adams
68.7
10
11
Ronald Reagan
67.6
11
6
Woodrow Wilson
66.6
12
13
George Bush
66.5
13
16
John Quincy Adams
66.4
14
15
James K. Polk
66.3
15
17
Andrew Jackson
63.6
16
14
Lyndon Baines Johnson
63.4
17
19
John F. Kennedy
62.6
18
12
Richard Nixon
62.1
19
20
Grover Cleveland
60.8
20
21
William McKinley
59.2
21
18
Calvin Coolidge
58.7
22
22
Herbert Hoover
58.2
23
33
William Howard Taft
57.3
24
24
Gerald Ford
56
25
23
Martin Van Buren
54.2
26
30
Rutherford B. Hayes
53.9
27
26
Benjamin Harrison
50.9
28
31
James Garfield
50.8
29
28
John Tyler
50.5
30
32
Zachary Taylor
50.2
31
25
Chester Arthur
50.1
32
34
Jimmy Carter
49.1
33
27
Bill Clinton
48.8
34
36
Millard Fillmore
46
35
37
William Henry Harrison
45.7
36
35
Andrew Johnson
42.7
37
38
Franklin Pierce
42.6
38
39
James Buchanan
40.7
39
41
Ulysses S. Grant
39.4
40
29
Warren G. Harding
34.7
41
40
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