Statistics for U.S. Presidents Who Have Served in the Military

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Branch	Rank	Answer	% Correct
Continental Army	Major General / Commander-in-Chief	George Washington	100%
Albemarle County Militia	Colonel	Thomas Jefferson	81%
Union Army	General of the Army	Ulysses S. Grant	77%
Orange County Militia	Colonel	James Madison	74%
Army	Major General	Andrew Jackson	71%
Continental Army	Major	James Monroe	71%
Illinois Militia	Captain	Abraham Lincoln	61%
Army	General of the Army	Dwight D. Eisenhower	61%
Air National Guard	First Lieutenant	George W. Bush	61%
Tennessee Militia	Colonel	James K. Polk	61%
Charles City Rifles	Captain	John Tyler	61%
Union Army	Brigadier General (As Military Governor)	Andrew Johnson	58%
Army	Brigadier General	Franklin Pierce	58%
Navy	Lieutenant (Junior Grade)	George H. W. Bush	58%
Union Army	Major General	James Garfield	58%
Navy	Lieutenant	Jimmy Carter	58%
Navy Reserves	Commander	Lyndon B. Johnson	58%
Union Continentals	Major	Millard Fillmore	58%
Army	Captain	Ronald Reagan	58%
Union Army	Major General	Rutherford B. Hayes	58%
Volunteer Army	Colonel	Theodore Roosevelt	58%
Army	Captain	William Henry Harrison	58%
Army	Major General	Zachary Taylor	58%
Navy	Lieutenant Commander	Gerald Ford	55%
Army Reserve	Colonel	Harry Truman	55%
Pennsylvania Militia	Private	James Buchanan	55%
Navy	Lieutenant	John F. Kennedy	55%
Navy Resverves	Commander	Richard Nixon	55%
Union Army	Brevet Major	William McKinley	45%
Union Volunteer Army	Brevet Brigadier General	Benjamin Harrison	39%
New York Militia	Brigadier General	Chester A. Arthur	26%