Trong khoa hoc chinh tri, viec xep hang cac tong thong Hoa Ky trong lich su Hoa Ky thuong dua theo y kien cua cac nha su hoc va khoa hoc chinh tri. Vi tri cua cac tong thong đuoc đanh gia theo nhung đong gop cua ho cho nuoc My va the gioi, cac pham chat lanh đao, nhung that bai hoac sai lam cua tung nguoi trong thoi gian lam tong thong.


Y kien chung Theo đa so cac cuoc tham do thi George Washington, Abraham Lincoln va Franklin D. Roosevelt thuong đuoc coi la cac tong thong xuat sac nhat cua Hoa Ky. Xep tiep theo la hai tong thong Thomas Jefferson va Theodore Roosevelt. Top 10 tong thong ngoai 5 nguoi ke tren thuong co them James Madison, Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, Harry S. Truman va Dwight D. Eisenhower. Ronald Reagan va John F. Kennedy tuy thuong co thu hang rat cao trong cac cuoc tham do xa hoi My nhung chi đuoc đanh gia cao trong mot vai bang xep hang cua gioi hoc gia. Cac tong thong đung cuoi bang xep hang thong thuong gom Franklin Pierce, Warren G. Harding va James Buchanan. Hai tong thong William Henry Harrison va James A. Garfield, von qua đoi khong lau sau khi nham chuc, đoi khi khong đuoc xep hang.


Xep hang cua gioi hoc gia Xanh la nhom đung đau.Đo la nhom xep cuoi.


Xep hang cua cong chung Vao nam 2000, đai truyen hinh ABC đa tien hanh cuoc tham do voi cau hoi "Theo ban tong thong Hoa Ky nao la vi đai nhat?", ket qua tu 1012 nguoi đuoc hoi nhu sau:

Abraham Lincoln (19%)
John F. Kennedy (17%)
Franklin Roosevelt (11%)
Khong y kien (10%)
Ronald Reagan (9%)
George Washington (8%)
Bill Clinton (7%)
Theodore Roosevelt (4%)
George H.W. Bush (4%)
Thomas Jefferson (3%)
Harry Truman (2%)
Richard Nixon (2%)
Jimmy Carter (1%)
Dwight Eisenhower (1%)
Nam 2007, cong ty thong ke đai chung Rasmussen Reports tien hanh cuoc tham do y kien cong chung ve viec ho ung ho va khong ung ho tong thong Hoa Ky nao. 6 tong thong co it nhat 80% y kien ung ho (favorable) la George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy, 2 tong thong duy nhat co it nhat 50% y kien khong ung ho (unfavorable) la Richard Nixon va George W. Bush.

George Washington (94% favorable)
Abraham Lincoln (92% favorable)
Thomas Jefferson (89% favorable)
Theodore Roosevelt (84% favorable)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (81% favorable)
John F. Kennedy (80% favorable)
John Adams (74% favorable)
James Madison (73% favorable)
Ronald Reagan (72% favorable)
Dwight Eisenhower (72% favorable)
Harry Truman (70% favorable)
Andrew Jackson (69% favorable)
Gerald Ford (62% favorable)
John Quincy Adams (59% favorable)
Ulysses S. Grant (58% favorable)
Jimmy Carter (57% favorable)
William Taft (57% favorable)
George H.W. Bush (57% favorable)
Woodrow Wilson (56% favorable)
Bill Clinton (55% favorable)
...

George W. Bush (66% unfavorable)
Richard Nixon (60% unfavorable)
Nam 2005, Washington College tien hanh tham do 800 nguoi truong thanh voi cau hoi "Theo ban tong thong Hoa Ky nao la vi đai nhat trong lich su?", ket qua nhu sau:

Abraham Lincoln (20%)
Ronald Reagan (15%)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (12%)
John F. Kennedy (11%)
Bill Clinton (10%)
Khac/Khong biet (9%)
George W. Bush (8%)
George Washington (6%)
Theodore Roosevelt (3%)
Dwight Eisenhower (3%)
Jimmy Carter (2%)
Thomas Jefferson (2%)
Richard Nixon (1%)
John Adams (<1%)
Andrew Jackson (<1%)
Lyndon Johnson (<1%)
Nam 2007, cuoc tham do Gallup ve tong thong Hoa Ky vi đai nhat cho ket qua:

Abraham Lincoln (18%)
Ronald Reagan (16%)
John F. Kennedy (14%)
Bill Clinton (13%)
Franklin Roosevelt (9%)
Khac/Khong/Khong y kien (8%)
George Washington (7%)
Harry Truman (3%)
George W. Bush (2%)
Theodore Roosevelt (2%)
Dwight Eisenhower (2%)
Thomas Jefferson (2%)
Jimmy Carter (2%)
Gerald Ford (1%)
George H.W. Bush (1%)
Richard Nixon (0%)
Voi cac tong thong Hoa Ky nham chuc trong thoi gian gan đay, nam 2006, Đai hoc Quinnipiac tham do ve tong thong toi nhat Hoa Ky trong 61 nam qua voi ket qua:

George W. Bush (34%)
Richard Nixon (17%)
Bill Clinton (16%)
Jimmy Carter (13%)
Khong ro/khong co y kien (5%)
Lyndon Johnson (4%)
George H. W. Bush (3%)
Ronald Reagan (3%)
Gerald Ford (2%)
Harry Truman (1%)
John Kennedy (1%)
Dwight Eisenhower (<1%)
Nam 2006, mot cuoc tham do cua USA Today/Gallup ve cac tong thong Hoa Ky tu cuoi thap nien 1970 cho ket qua:


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Lien ket ngoai Top 10 Tong thong Hoa Ky toi nhat - The List Universe
List of presidential rankings Historians rank the 42 men who have held the office. AP via MSNBC. Feb. 16, 2009 Poll