Originally Posted by Brujah

The Siena College Research Institute?s Survey of U.S. Presidents finds that experts rank Franklin D. Roosevelt as the top all-time chief executive. The 238 participating presidential scholars ranked the presidents using 20 qualities: background, party leadership, communication ability, relationship with Congress, court appointments, handling of U.S. economy, luck, ability to compromise, willingness to take risks, executive appointments, overall ability, imagination, domestic accomplishments, integrity, executive ability, foreign policy accomplishments, leadership ability, intelligence, avoidance of crucial mistakes and scholars? present overall view.

1. Franklin D. Roosevelt
2. Teddy Roosevelt
3. Abraham Lincoln
4. George Washington
5. Thomas Jefferson
6. James Madison
7. James Monroe
8. Woodrow Wilson
9. Harry S. Truman
10. Dwight D. Eisenhower
11. John F. Kennedy
12. James Polk
13. Bill Clinton
14. Andrew Jackson
15. Barack Obama
16. Lyndon B. Johnson
17. John Adams
18. Ronald Reagan
19. John Quincy Adams
20. Grover Cleveland
21. William McKinley
22. George H.W. Bush
23. Martin Van Buren
24. William Taft
25. Chester A. Arthur
26. Ulysses S. Grant
27. James Garfield
28. Gerald Ford
29. Calvin Coolidge
30. Richard Nixon
31. Rutherford B. Hayes
32. Jimmy Carter
33. Zachary Taylor
34. Benjamin Harrison
35. William Henry Harrison
36. Herbert Hoover
37. John Tyler
38. Millard Fillmore
39. George W. Bush
40. Franklin Pierce
41. Warren G. Harding
42. James Buchanan
43. Andrew Johnson

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