Statistics for Infamous Americans That Impacted History

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Impact	Name	% Correct
U.S. President impeached for lying under oath about sexual allegations	Bill Clinton	96%
U.S. President who controversially decided to invade Iraq	George W. Bush	94%
Crime boss that ran a multi-million dollar crime operation during the Prohibition era	Al Capone	92%
U.S. President who did little to prevent the Great Depression and expected it to solve itself	Herbert Hoover	90%
Assassinated Abraham Lincoln	John Wilkes Booth	90%
U.S. President most known for corruption and Watergate scandal	Richard Nixon	88%
Assassinated John F. Kennedy	Lee Harvey Oswald	84%
Killed Alexander Hamilton; fled to Europe after being charged with treason	Aaron Burr	82%
U.S. President impeached for violating the Tenure of Office Act	Andrew Johnson	76%
Fomer senator exacerbated the Red Scare, claiming several government officials were working for the Soviet Union without evidence	Joseph McCarthy	76%
Revolutionary War hero who later betrayed the U.S.	Benedict Arnold	70%
Former president of the Confederate States; poor political leader	Jefferson Davis	70%
U.S. President who did nothing to prevent the nation from falling into the Civil War	James Buchanan	60%
Founder and leader of the People's Temple cult, initiating mass suicide/murder	Jim Jones	58%
Great Depression era gangster having robbed 24 banks and escaped jail twice	John Dillinger	52%
U.S. President who ended the Reconstruction era by allowing the South to return to harsh discrimination after promising to protect the rights of Black Americans	Rutherford B. Hayes	52%
Domestic terrorist responsible for 1995 Oklahoma City bombing killing 168 and injuring 680	Timothy McVeigh	52%
U.S. President known for corruption in Teapot Dome scandal	Warren G. Harding	50%
Convicted Soviet spy sentenced to death in 1951	Julius Rosenberg	46%
Assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.	James Earl Ray	42%
Former chairman of the NASDAQ stock market; confessed operator of the largest Ponzi scheme in world history and the largest financial fraud in U.S. history.	Bernie Madoff	40%
Corrupt politician most notable as the "boss" of Tammany Hall and political machines	William M. Tweed	36%
Confederate army general who formed the Ku Klux Klan after losing the Civil War	Nathan Bedford Forrest	26%
Chief Justice who decided Dred Scott and Ex Parte Merryman	Roger B. Taney	20%
Soviet spy convicted of perjury in 1950, served only 44 months in prison	Alger Hiss	18%
U.S. President who crashed a booming economy and worsened it with ineffective policies	Martin Van Buren	18%
Assassinated James A. Garfield	Charles J. Guiteau	16%
Mobster crimelord dubbed "the father of organized crime," initiated the first Commission	Charles "Lucky" Luciano	16%
Anti-semetic who claims to be the true Jesus Christ; leader of Nation of Islam	Louis Farrakhan	16%
CIA officer turned KGB double agent convicted of espionage in 1994 sentenced to life in prison	Aldritch Ames	12%
Assassinated William McKinley	Leon Czolgosz	12%
U.S. President who signed the Fugitive Slave Act, setting the stage for black codes	Millard Fillmore	6%
Chief Justice whose decision in United States v. Cruikshank effectively disabled the federal government from protecting the freed blacks from white southern terrorists during Reconstruction	Morrison Waite	0%