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                                        RANK in History*

1. George Washington                                                 1- 4.94

 2. John Adams                                                            13- 3.33

 3. Thomas Jefferson                                                    4- 4.23

 4. James Madison                                                       17- 3.07

 5. James Monroe                                                         16- 3.24

 6. John Quincy Adams                                               25- 2.66

 7. Andrew Jackson                                                     10- 3.58

 8. Martin Van Buren                                                    27- 2.63

 9. William Henry Harrison                                          ----------**

10. John Tyler                                                                35- 2.23

11. James K. Polk                                                           9- 3.59

12. Zachary Taylor                                                        33- 2.30

13. Millard Fillmore                                                       36- 1.85

14. Franklin Pierce                                                        38- 1.73

15. James Buchanan                                                   40- 1.31

16. Abraham Lincoln                                                      2- 4.67

17. Andrew Johnson                                                    37- 1.75

18. Ulysses S. Grant                                                      29- 2.57

19. Rutherford B. Hayes                                              24- 2.73

20. James A. Garfield                                                      --------- **

21. Chester A. Arthur                                                     26- 2.65

22. Grover Cleveland                                                    12- 3.34

23. Benjamin Harrison                                                  30- 2.54

24. Grover Cleveland

25. William McKinley                                                      14- 3.32

26. Theodore Roosevelt                                                  5- 4.08

27. William Howard Taft                                                 20- 2.97

28. Woodrow Wilson                                                      11- 3.41

29. Warren G. Harding                                                    39- 1.64

30. Calvin Coolidge                                                         23- 2.77

31. Herbert Hoover                                                          31- 2.50

32. Franklin D. Roosevelt                                                 3- 4.41

33. Harry S Truman                                                           7- 3.95

34. Dwight D. Eisenhower                                               8- 3.67

35. John F. Kennedy                                                       15- 3.25

36. Lyndon B. Johnson                                                  18- 3.05

37. Richard M. Nixon                                                       32- 2.40

38. Gerald R. Ford                                                            28- 2.61

39. James E. (Jimmy) Carter                                         34- 2.24

40. Ronald W. Reagan                                                      6- 4.03

41. George H. W. Bush                                                   21- 2.95

42. William J. (Bill) Clinton                                             22- 2.93

43. George W. Bush                                                        19- 3.01

* Source: Wall Street Journal/Federalist Society Survey (Feb.-March 2005)

** Garfield, Harrison excluded - Terms too short

Conclusion:

Great: Washington, Lincoln, F. D. Roosevelt

Near Great: Jefferson, T. Roosevelt, Reagan, Truman, Eisenhower, Polk, Jackson

Above Average: Wilson, Cleveland, Adams, McKinley, Kennedy, Monroe

Average: Madison, L. Johnson, G. W. Bush, Taft, G. H. W. Bush, Clinton, Coolidge, Hayes

Below Average: J. Q. Adams, Arthur, Van Buren, Ford, Grant, B. Harrison, Hoover, Nixon, Taylor, Carter, Tyler

Failure: Fillmore, A. Johnson, Pierce, Harding, Buchanan

Most Books (as of February 2006):

Lincoln              (1,589)

Washington     (1,094)

Jefferson             (859)

Kennedy              (855)

FDR                       (532)

Clinton                  (528)

Reagan                 (489)

T. Roosevelt        (406)

G. W. Bush           (375)

Nixon                     (339)

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