1. 10 best and worst American presidents
10 best American presidents
#10. Ronald Wilson Reagan (Republican)
40th President, 1981-1989
#9. Thomas Woodrow Wilson (Democratic)
28th President, 1913-1921
#8. James Knox Polk (Democratic)
11th President, 1845-1849
#7. James Madison (Democratic-Republican)
4th President, 1809-1817
#6. Harry S Truman (Democratic)
33rd President, 1945-1953
#5. Theodore Roosevelt (Republican)
26th President, 1901-1909
#4. Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
3rd President, 1801-1809
#3. George Washington (No party)
1st President, 1789-1797
#2. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democratic)
32nd President, 1933-1945
#1. Abraham Lincoln (Republican/National Union)
16th President, 1861-1865
2. 10 worst American presidents
#10. John Calvin Coolidge (Republican)
30th President, 1923-1929
#9. Herbert Clark Hoover (Republican)
29th President, 1929-1933
#8. Millard Fillmore (Whig)
13th President, 1850-1853
#7. Zachary Taylor (Whig)
12th President, 1849-1850
#6. Ulysses Simpson Grant (Republican)
18th President, 1869-1877
#5. John Tyler (Whig/No party)
10th President, 1841-1845
#4. Andrew Johnson (Democratic/National Union/No party)
17th President, 1865-1869
#3. Franklin Pierce (Democratic)
14th President, 1853-1857
#2. James Buchanan (Democratic)
15th President, 1857-1861
#1. Warren Gamaliel Harding (Republican)
29th President, 1921-1923
3. Honorable mention
#5. Richard Milhous Nixon (Republican)
37th President, 1969-1974
#4. Lyndon Baines Johnson (Democratic)
36th President, 1963-1969
#3. John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Democratic)
35th President, 1961-1963
#2. Dwight David Eisenhower (Republican)
34th President, 1953-1961
#1. William Jefferson Clinton (Democratic)
42nd President, 1993-2001
Rankings of American presidents
NP=No party F=Federalist D-R=Democratic-Republican
W=Whig D=Democratic R=Republican
NU=National Union
Great
1. Abraham Lincoln (R/NU)
2. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D)
3. George Washington (NP)
Near Great
4. Thomas Jefferson (D-R)
5. Theodore Roosevelt (R)
6. Harry S Truman (D)
7. James Madison (D-R)
8. James Knox Polk (D)
9. Ronald Wilson Reagan (R)
10. James Monroe (D-R)
4. Above Average
11. Thomas Woodrow Wilson (D)
12. William Jefferson Clinton (D)
13. Lyndon Baines Johnson (D)
14. John Fitzgerald Kennedy (D)
15. Dwight David Eisenhower (R)
16. John Adams (F)
17. Andrew Jackson (D)
Average
18. Richard Milhous Nixon (R)
19. Gerald Rudolph Ford (R)
20. John Quincy Adams (D-R)
21. William McKinley (R)
22. Benjamin Harrison (R)
23. George Herbert Walker Bush (R)
24. Rutherford Birchard Hayes (R)
25. Stephen Grover Cleveland (D)
26. James Earl Carter, Jr. (D)
27. George Walker Bush (R)
Below Average
28. Martin Van Buren (D)
29. Chester Alan Arthur (R)
30. William Howard Taft (R)
31. John Calvin Coolidge (R)
32. Herbert Clark Hoover (R)
33. Ulysses Simpson Grant (R)
Failure
34. Millard Fillmore (W)
35. Zachary Taylor (W)
36. John Tyler (W/NP)
37. Andrew Johnson (D/NU/NP)
38. Franklin Pierce (D)
39. James Buchanan (D)
40. Warren Gamaliel Harding (R)
Not Ranked
41. William Henry Harrison (W)
42. James Abram Garfield (R)
43. Barack Obama (D)
American Presidents by political affiliation
5. Democratic
1. Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)
2. Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)
3. James Knox Polk (1845-1849)
4. Franklin Pierce (1853-1857)
5. James Buchanan (1857-1861)
6. Andrew Johnson (1865-1869)
7. Stephen Grover Cleveland (1885-1889; 1893-1897)
8. Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)
9. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945)
10. Harry S Truman (1945-1953)
11. John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1961-1963)
12. Lyndon Baines Johnson (1963-1969)
13. James Earl Carter, Jr. (1977-1981)
14. William Jefferson Clinton (1993-2001)
15. Barack Hussein Obama (2009-present)
Republican
1. Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)
2. Ulysses Simpson Grant (1869-1877)
3. Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1877-1881)
4. James Abram Garfield (1881)
5. Chester Alan Arthur (1881-1885)
6. Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893)
7. William McKinley (1897-1901)
8. Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)
9. William Howard Taft (1909-1913)
10. Warren Gamaliel Harding (1921-1923)
11. John Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)
12. Herbert Clark Hoover (1929-1933)
13. Dwight David Eisenhower (1953-1961)
14. Richard Milhous Nixon (1969-1974)
15. Gerald Rudolph Ford (1974-1977)
16. Ronald Wilson Reagan (1981-1989)
17. George Herbert Walker Bush (1989-1993)
18. George Walker Bush (2001-2009)
Whig
1. William Henry Harrison (1841)
2. John Tyler (1841-1845)
3. Zachary Taylor (1849-1850)
4. Millard Fillmore (1850-1853)
Democratic-Republican
1. Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)
6. 2. James Madison (1809-1817)
3. James Monroe (1817-1825)
4. John Quincy Adams (1825-1829)
Federalist
John Adams (1797-1801)
No party
George Washington (1789-1797)
Presidential administrations after creation of State of Israel
Eisenhower Administration (1953-1961)
Kennedy and Johnson administrations (1961-1969)
Nixon and Ford Administrations (1969-1977)
Carter administration (1977-1981)
Reagan administration (1981-1989)
George H. W. Bush administration (1989-1993)
Clinton administration (1993-2001)
George W. Bush administration (2001-2009)
Obama administration (2009-present)