Prager U recently surveyed hundreds of conservative scholars asking them to rank the presidents from best to worst.  Most of the rankings of presidents by liberal historians put those chief executives who expanded federal powers and federal debt most as “the greatest.”  That’s why one of our worst presidents, Woodrow Wilson is often ranked in the top 10 or 15.

We did this ourselves a couple years ago at UP and there’s a lot of similarities, though we have a few minor quibbles with the Prager ratings.

Still, we think these are much better than the standard rankings that make it into the history textbooks and the newspapers, so we list the top 9 and bottom 9 below.