Historical Rankings

Determination of a president's place is history is best viewed through the prism of time. For that reason (and I don't want to receive hate mail) I have not included the five most recent presidents - Clinton, G. W. Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden - in these rankings.
Because the rankings of the presidents change from poll to poll I have broken these 40 presidents into five groups of eight to give a general sense of where they fall. Does #20 or #21 make a difference? I just want to know they are in the middle of the pack. So, the order within each 20% group is by the order of their presidency, not rankings.
Washington, Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt are consistently ranked in the top 3.
Pierce, Buchanan, A. Johnson, and Harding are consistently ranked as the worst presidents.

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