United States Presidency Centre
UK Survey of US Presidents
Results

Moral Authority

Did the president uphold the moral authority of his office
through his character, values, and conduct?

Category
Ranking
President
Score
Overall
Ranking
1
George Washington, 1789-1797
9.2
3
2
Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865
9.13
2
3
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945
8.43
1
4
Dwight David Eisenhower, 1953-1961
7.4
10
5
Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921
7.3
6
6
James Earl Carter, Jr., 1977-1981
7.28
18
7
Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953
7.28
7
8
Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809
7.16
4
9
John Adams, 1797-1801
7.15
12
10
Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909
7.09
5
11
James Madison, 1809-1817
6.72
14
12
James Monroe, 1817-1825
6.27
13
13
John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829
6
20
14
Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-1989
5.89
8
15
George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993
5.87
22
16
Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977
5.87
24
17
William McKinley, 1897-1901
5.86
17
18
Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837
5.63
9
19
Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889
5.56
21
20
Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969
5.45
11
21
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963
5.43
15
22
James Knox Polk, 1845-1849
5.19
16
23
Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929
5.07
28
24
Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-1933
5
26
25
William Howard Taft, 1909-1913
4.97
25
26
Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850
4.46
33
27
Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841
4.45
27
28
Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-1885
4.26
32
29
Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893
4.24
34
30
Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1877-1881
4.1
30
31
Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1869-1877
3.95
29
32
Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853
3.72
35
33
George Walker Bush, 2001-2009
3.55
31
34
William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001
3.48
19
35
John Tyler, 1841-1845
3.19
37
36
Andrew Johnson, 1865-1869
3.05
36
37
Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857
2.81
39
38
James Buchanan, 1857-1861
2.74
40
39
Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-1923
2.21
38
40
Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974
2.02
23