Just weeks after leaving the White House, former US president Barack Obama ranks as the 12th best US President overall in a new poll of historians conducted by C-SPAN.
It’s the first time Obama was eligible for the Presidential Historians Survey, which asked 91 historians to rank all 43 former presidents across 10 categories, USA Today reported on Monday.
The poll was conducted by C-SPAN ahead of President’s Day.
Those include “Pursued Equal Justice for All,” in which Obama ranked 3rd, to “Relations with Congress,” in which he ranked 39th.
Abraham Lincoln retained his top spot for the third time in the poll, which debuted in 2000 and last took place in 2009. Other consistently high-ranking presidents include George Washington, Franklin D Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt – all of whom made the top five overall in each survey.
(With inputs from IANS)
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