President  ?	Schlesinger 1948 poll rank  ?	Schlesinger 1962 poll rank  ?	1982 Murray-Blessing survey of 846 historians  ?	Chicago Tribune 1982 poll rank  ?	Siena 1982 poll rank  ?	Siena 1990 poll rank  ?	Siena 1994 poll rank  ?	Ridings- McIver 1996 poll rank  ?	CSPAN 1999 poll rank  ?	Wall Street Journal 2000 poll rank  ?	Siena 2002 poll rank  ?	Wall Street Journal 2005 poll rank  ?	Average	Age
1	George Washington	2	2	3	3	4	4	4	3	3	1	4	1	2.83	57
2	John Adams	9	10	9	14	10	14	12	14	16	13	12	13	12.17	61
3	Thomas Jefferson	5	5	4	5	2	3	5	4	7	4	5	4	4.42	57
4	James Madison	14	12	14	17	9	8	9	10	18	15	9	17	12.67	57
5	James Monroe	12	18	15	16	15	11	15	13	14	16	8	16	14.08	58
6	John Quincy Adams	11	13	16	19	17	16	12	18	19	20	17	25	16.92	57
7	Andrew Jackson	6	6	7	6	13	9	11	8	13	6	13	10	9.00	61
8	Martin Van Buren	15	17	20	18	21	21	22	21	30	23	24	27	21.58	54
9	William Henry Harrison	—	—	—	38	26	35	28	35	37	—	36	—	33.57	68
10	John Tyler	22	25	28	29	34	33	34	34	36	34	37	35	31.75	51
11	James K. Polk	10	8	12	11	12	13	14	11	12	10	11	9	11.08	49
12	Zachary Taylor	25	24	27	28	29	34	33	29	28	31	34	33	29.58	64
13	Millard Fillmore	24	26	29	31	32	32	35	36	35	35	38	36	32.42	50
14	Franklin Pierce	27	28	31	35	35	36	37	37	39	37	39	38	34.92	48
15	James Buchanan	26	29	33	36	37	38	39	40	41	39	41	40	36.58	65
16	Abraham Lincoln	1	1	1	1	3	2	2	1	1	2	2	2	1.58	52
17	Andrew Johnson	19	23	32	32	38	39	40	38	40	36	42	37	34.67	56
18	Ulysses S. Grant	28	30	35	30	36	37	38	38	33	32	35	29	33.42	46
19	Rutherford B. Hayes	13	14	22	22	22	23	24	26	25	22	27	24	22.00	54
20	James Garfield	—	—	—	33	25	30	27	30	29	—	33	—	29.57	49
21	Chester A. Arthur	17	21	26	24	24	26	26	32	28	26	30	26	25.50	51
22	Grover Cleveland	8	11	17	13	18	17	19	17	16	12	20	12	15.00	47
23	Benjamin Harrison	21	20	23	25	31	29	28	31	31	27	32	30	27.33	55
25	William McKinley	18	15	18	10	19	19	18	17	15	14	19	14	16.33	54
26	Theodore Roosevelt	7	7	5	4	5	5	3	5	4	5	3	5	4.83	42
27	William Howard Taft	16	16	19	20	20	20	21	20	24	19	21	20	19.67	51
28	Woodrow Wilson	4	4	6	7	6	6	6	6	6	11	6	11	6.58	56
29	Warren G. Harding	29	31	36	37	39	40	41	38	38	37	40	39	37.08	55
30	Calvin Coolidge	23	27	30	27	30	31	36	33	27	25	29	23	28.42	51
31	Herbert Hoover	20	19	21	21	27	28	29	24	34	29	31	31	26.17	54
32	Franklin D. Roosevelt	3	3	2	2	1	1	1	2	2	3	1	3	2.00	51
33	Harry S. Truman	—	9	8	8	7	7	7	7	5	7	7	7	7.18	60
34	Dwight D. Eisenhower	—	22	11	9	11	12	8	9	9	9	10	8	10.73	62
35	John F. Kennedy	—	—	13	14	8	10	10	15	8	18	14	15	12.50	43
36	Lyndon B. Johnson	—	—	10	12	14	15	13	12	10	17	15	18	13.60	55
37	Richard Nixon	—	—	34	34	28	25	23	32	25	33	26	32	29.20	56
38	Gerald R. Ford	—	—	24	23	23	27	32	27	23	28	28	28	26.30	61
39	Jimmy Carter	—	—	25	26	33	24	25	19	22	30	25	34	26.30	52
40	Ronald Reagan	—	—	—	—	16	22	20	26	11	8	16	6	15.63	69
41	George H. W. Bush	—	—	—	—	—	18	31	22	20	21	22	21	22.14	64
42	Bill Clinton	—	—	—	—	—	—	16	23	21	24	18	22	20.67	46
43	George W. Bush	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	23	19	21.00	54