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In political studies, surveys have been conducted in order to construct historical rankings of the success of the presidents of the United States. Ranking systems are usually based on surveys of academic historians and political scientists or popular opinion. The rankings focus on presidential achievements, leadership qualities, failures, and faults.[1][2][3]
In the 1920s, sculptor Gutzon Borglum and President Calvin Coolidge selected George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln to appear on Mount Rushmore — it later became an iconic symbol of presidential greatness.
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- 1General findings
- 2Notable scholar surveys
- 3Scholar survey results
- 4Murray–Blessing 1982 survey
- 5Public opinion polls
- 5.1Rasmussen poll
- 5.2Gallup poll
- 6Public opinion polls on recent presidents
- 6.12010 Gallup poll
- 6.2Public Policy Polling
- 6.3Vision Critical/Angus Reid poll
- 6.42013 Gallup poll
- 6.52014 Quinnipiac poll
- 6.62017 Quinnipiac poll
- 6.72017 Morning Consult poll
- 6.82018 Quinnipiac poll
- 7Siena College Research Institute, Presidential Expert Poll of 2010
- 82017 C-SPAN Presidential Historian Survey
- 9Siena College Research Institute, Presidential Expert Poll of 2018
- 10Memorability of the presidents
- 11Criticism and alternatives
- 11.1Alvin S. Felzenberg’s The Leaders We Deserved
- 11.2Racial equality assessments
- 12See also
- 13Footnotes
- 14References
- 15Further reading
- 16External links
General findings
Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and George Washington are most often listed as the three highest-rated presidents among historians. The remaining places within the Top 10 are often rounded out by Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Harry S. Truman, Woodrow Wilson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Andrew Jackson, and John F. Kennedy. More recent presidents such as Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton are often rated among the greatest in public opinion polls, but do not always rank as highly among presidential scholars and historians. The bottom 10 often include James Buchanan, Warren G. Harding, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, Millard Fillmore, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Ulysses S. Grant, Zachary Taylor, and George W. Bush. Because William Henry Harrison (31 days) and James A. Garfield (200 days, incapacitated after 119 days) both died shortly after taking office, they are often omitted from presidential rankings. Furthermore, Zachary Taylor died after serving as president for only 16 months, but he is usually included. In the case of these three, it is not clear whether they received low rankings due to their actions as president or because each was in office for such a limited time that it is not possible to assess them more thoroughly.
Political scientist Walter Dean Burnham noted the “dichotomous or schizoid profiles” of presidents, which can make some hard to classify. Historian Alan Brinkley stated that “there are presidents who could be considered both failures and great or near great (for example, Nixon)”. Historian and political scientist James MacGregor Burns observed of Nixon: “How can one evaluate such an idiosyncratic president, so brilliant and so morally lacking?”[4]
Notable scholar surveys
Abraham Lincoln is often considered the greatest president for his leadership during the American Civil War and his eloquence in speeches such as the Gettysburg Address.
James Buchanan is often considered the worst president for his inept leadership during the years leading up to the Civil War.
The 1948 poll was conducted by historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. of Harvard University.[1] The 1962 survey was also conducted by Schlesinger, who surveyed 75 historians.[5] Schlesinger’s son, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., conducted another poll in 1996.[6]
The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents also gives the results of the 1982 survey, a poll of 49 historians conducted by the Chicago Tribune. A notable difference from the 1962 Schlesinger poll was the ranking of Dwight D. Eisenhower, which rose from 22nd in 1962 to 9th in 1982.
The 1996 column shows the results from a poll conducted from 1988 to 1996 by William J. Ridings Jr. and Stuart B. McIver and published in Rating The Presidents: A Ranking of U.S. Leaders, from the Great and Honorable to the Dishonest and Incompetent.[7] More than 719 people took part in the poll, primarily academic historians and political scientists, although some politicians and celebrities also took part. Participants from every state were included and emphasis was placed upon getting input from female historians and “specialists in African-American studies” as well as a few non-American historians. Poll respondents rated the presidents in five categories (leadership qualities, accomplishments and crisis management, political skill, appointments and character and integrity) and the results were tabulated to create the overall ranking.
A 2000 survey by The Wall Street Journal consisted of an “ideologically balanced group of 132 prominent professors of history, law, and political science”. This poll sought to include an equal number of liberals and conservatives in the survey as the editors argued that previous polls were dominated by either one group or the other. According to the editors, this poll included responses from more women, minorities and young professors than the 1996 Schlesinger poll. The editors noted that the results of their poll were “remarkably similar” to the 1996 Schlesinger poll, with the main difference in the 2000 poll being the lower rankings for the 1960s presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy and higher ranking of President Ronald Reagan at 8th. Franklin D. Roosevelt still ranked in the top three.