Ranked at the bottom as a failure in the mid-20th century, he had the largest ranking change of any president in the C-SPAN surveys. He jumped 13 places from 33rd in 2000 to 20th in 2021.

Stacker ranked U.S. presidents over the past 80 years by their approval ratings when they left office using data from The American Presidency Project.

Ranking presidents over the past eight decades by final approval rating by: Aubrey Jane McClaine, Stacker.com. Posted: Mar 17, 2023 / 02:08 PM EDT. Updated: Mar 17, 2023 / 02:11 PM EDT.

There have been numerous surveys ranking presidents since then, including a 1962 survey by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., which showed Jackson dropping into a “near great” category.

President Joe Biden and Former President Donald Trump may be first in their respective parties, but neither cracked the top 10 when ranking presidents. Biden was ranked at 14, while Trump came in ...

Meanwhile, Abraham Lincoln stood at the top of the presidential rankings, as the country’s greatest president, with an average score of 93.9/100. Franklin D. Roosevelt came in at number two, ...