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2009
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2009
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2009
2000
Franklin D. Roosevelt
81.3
1
2
3
Lyndon B. Johnson
79.7
2
1
11
Abraham Lincoln
78.8
3
4
1
George Washington
78.7
4
3
2
Thomas Jefferson
75.6
5
5
7
Dwight D. Eisenhower
66.6
6
7
8
Theodore Roosevelt
66.6
7
6
4
Ronald Reagan
65.4
8
8
10
James Monroe
64.7
9
10
13
William McKinley
62.3
10
9
16
James K. Polk
61.0
11
11
12
John F. Kennedy
60.2
12
13
6
Gerald R. Ford
57.3
13
12
22
Andrew Jackson
56.3
14
16
13
James Madison
55.9
15
17
20
Harry S. Truman
54.4
16
15
5
Woodrow Wilson
54.0
17
14
9
Calvin Coolidge
51.6
18
19
26
Bill Clinton
51.1
19
36
15
George H. W. Bush
50.2
20
20
18
Ulysses S. Grant
50.0
21
31
23
James A. Garfield
48.5
22
23
28
William Howard Taft
48.5
23
28
24
Martin Van Buren
48.2
24
25
31
Chester A. Arthur
47.8
25
27
32
Benjamin Harrison
47.5
26
24
30
Grover Cleveland
46.7
27
18
21
John Adams
46.6
28
22
17
Zachary Taylor
45.3
29
32
29
Herbert Hoover
42.7
30
34
34
John Quincy Adams
42.5
31
35
19
Jimmy Carter
41.8
32
33
25
Millard Fillmore
41.7
33
29
37
Warren G. Harding
41.3
34
26
38
Rutherford B. Hayes
41.1
35
21
33
George W. Bush
39.7
36
NA
36
Richard M. Nixon
39.2
37
30
27
William Henry Harrison
35.3
38
39
39
Franklin D. Pierce
34.0
39
37
40
John Tyler
30.6
40
38
35
James Buchanan
29.4
41
40
42
Andrew Johnson
14.8
42
41
41
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