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c-span's 2021 ranking of the top ten presidents
historians survey, not a popularity poll. 142 historians score every president on 10 leadership categories, results averaged into one overall rank. current edition is 2021, C-SPAN runs it roughly every four to five years.
01
Abraham Lincoln
897 overall. Fourth survey in a row at number one. Historians in this poll just do not move him.
02
George Washington
851. Same spot he held in 2017.
03
Franklin D. Roosevelt
841, third place. Scores highest on crisis leadership of anyone on this list, per the category breakdown.
04
Theodore Roosevelt
05
Dwight D. Eisenhower
734. This is the one my students always guess wrong on, they put him lower.
06
Harry S. Truman
07
Thomas Jefferson
704. Compared to the previous survey, presidents one through nine did not move at all.
08
John F. Kennedy
09
Ronald Reagan
681. Ninth here, which is the highest he's placed since C-SPAN started this survey in 2000.
10
Barack Obama
664. The only mover into this top ten. He was 12th in the 2017 edition.
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