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Reading Level of Each U.S. Presidential Inauguration Speech

 

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George Washington (1st): 25.9
George Washington (2nd): 19.7
John Adams: 23.6
Thomas Jefferson (1st): 16.4
Thomas Jefferson (2nd): 17.9
James Madison (1st): 19
James Madison (2nd): 18.1
James Monroe (1st): 15.9
James Monroe (2nd): 18.1
John Quincy Adams: 17.5
Andrew Jackson (1st): 23.4
Andrew Jackson (2nd): 20.2
Martin Van Buren: 18.7
William Henry Harrison: 21.5
James Knox Polk: 19.1
Zachary Taylor: 24.2
Franklin Pierce: 18.7
James Buchanan: 19.7
Abraham Lincoln (1st): 16
Abraham Lincoln (2nd): 14.7
Ulysses S. Grant (1st): 15.7
Ulysses S. Grant (2nd): 15.6
Rutherford B. Hayes: 21.5
James A. Garfield: 16.5
Grover Cleveland (1st): 21.6
Benjamin Harrison: 17.5
Grover Cleveland (2nd): 10.8
William McKinley (1st): 18.1
William McKinley (2nd): 15.8
Theodore Roosevelt: 14.5
William Howard Taft: 19.9
Woodrow Wilson (1st): 13.3
Woodrow Wilson (2nd): 12.7
Warren G. Harding: 15.1
Calvin Coolidge: 14.2
Herbert Hoover: 14.9
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1st): 13
Franklin D. Roosevelt (2nd): 12.6
Franklin D. Roosevelt (3rd): 12.1
Franklin D. Roosevelt (4th): 11.6
Harry S. Truman: 13.6
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1st): 12.3
Dwight D. Eisenhower (2nd): 10.2
John F. Kennedy: 14.2
Lyndon Baines Johnson: 10.3
Richard Nixon (1st): 10.7
Richard Nixon (2nd): 15.1
Jimmy Carter: 13.5
Ronald Reagen (1st): 12.2
Ronald Reagen (2nd): 12
George Bush, Sr.: 9.2
Bill Clinton (1st): 11.4
Bill Clinton (2nd): 11.9
George W. Bush (1st): 11.2
George W. Bush (2nd): 13.5
Barack Obama: 10.9