Long - but to me interesting. I posted the presidential rankings back in July of 2014, based on the reviews of those listed, today I see a CBS ranking for comparison. - Because of the dates mine only had 42 rankings, both mine and theirs did both terms of Cleveland together. I think you will see many differences - I put theirs to the right in red
after reading the polls of;
Schlesinger 1948-1962 / Murray-Blessing survey of 846 historians in 1982 / Chicago Tribune poll 1982 / Siena 1982,1990,1944, & 2002 poll / Ridings-McIver 1996 poll / C-Span 1999 poll / Wall Street Journal 2000,2005 poll / and a popular opinion done through Washington College poll, I totalled their findings and divided by 8 for an average.
I posted this before, but here are those results - personally I don't agree with all ......
1. Abraham Lincoln [ranked without finishing 2nd term] 1
2. George Washington [both were less than .01% difference] 2
3. Franklin Roosevelt 4
4. Thomas Jefferson 6
5. Theodore Roosevelt 3
6. Ronald Reagan 8
7. Harry S. Truman 6
8. Andrew Jackson 17
9. Dwight D. Eisenhower 5
10. James K. Polk 13
11. John Adams 18
12. John F. Kennedy [ranked without finishing term] 7
13. James Madison 16
14. Woodrow Wilson 10
15. James Monroe 12
16. Grover Cleveland [non-consecutive term, ranked together] 22
17. William McKinley [ranked not finishing 2nd term] 15
18. John Quincy Adams 20
19. William Howard Taft 23
20. George W. Bush [ ranked after only 1 term] 32
21. Martin VanBuren 33
22. Rutherford B. Hayes 31
23. George H.W. Bush 19
24. Lyndon Baines Johnson 9
25. Chester Arthur 34
26. Gerald R. Ford [ranked not having full term] 24
27. Herbert Hoover 35
28. Benjamin Harrison 29
29. Calvin Coolidge 26
30. Richard Nixon [ranked even though resigning 2nd term] 27
31. Zachery Taylor 30
32. James E. Carter 25
33. William J. Clinton 14
34. John Tyler 38
35. Millard Fillmore 36
36. Ulysses S. Grant 21
37. James Garfield [ranked but did not serve full term] 28
38. Andrew Johnson 41
39. Franklin Pierce 40
40. James Buchanan 42
41. William Henry Harrison [ranked but only served 30 days] 37
42. Warren G. Harding 39
Obama 11
Donald Trump Surprise /Surprise / !!!!! 43