Happy Presidents Day: C-Span Survey of Top Presidents

C-SPAN released the results of its second Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership. 65 presidential historians ranked the 42 former occupants of the White House on ten attributes of leadership.

Historians Survey Results Category

Total Scores/Overall Ranking

President's Name	2009 Final Score	Overall Ranking
		2009	2000
Abraham Lincoln	902	1	1
George Washington	854	2	3
Franklin D. Roosevelt	837	3	2
Theodore Roosevelt	781	4	4
Harry S. Truman	708	5	5
John F. Kennedy	701	6	8
Thomas Jefferson	698	7	7
Dwight D. Eisenhower	689	8	9
Woodrow Wilson	683	9	6
Ronald Reagan	671	10	11
Lyndon B. Johnson	641	11	10
James K. Polk	606	12	12
Andrew Jackson	606	13	13
James Monroe	605	14	14
Bill Clinton	605	15	21
William McKinley	599	16	15
John Adams	545	17	16
George H. W. Bush	542	18	20
John Quincy Adams	542	19	19
James Madison	535	20	18
Grover Cleveland	523	21	17
Gerald R. Ford	509	22	23
Ulysses S. Grant	490	23	33
William Howard Taft	485	24	24
Jimmy Carter	474	25	22
Calvin Coolidge	469	26	27
Richard M. Nixon	450	27	25
James A. Garfield	445	28	29
Zachary Taylor	443	29	28
Benjamin Harrison	442	30	31
Martin Van Buren	435	31	30
Chester A. Arthur	420	32	32
Rutherford B. Hayes	409	33	26
Herbert Hoover	389	34	34
John Tyler	372	35	36
George W. Bush	362	36	NA
Millard Fillmore	351	37	35
Warren G. Harding	327	38	38
William Henry Harrison	324	39	37
Franklin D. Pierce	287	40	39
Andrew Johnson	258	41	40
James Buchanan	227	42	41