List of Presidents by Party Conformity

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This is my estimated ranking of presidents in order of most conformistic to the party to least conformistic to the party. Some people are harder to evaluate. George Washington will qualify as a Federalist because he was a Independent in Name Only -- 95% of his appointments were Federalist, and he toed their line more than John Adams did:

1. Andrew Jackson (Living embodiment of his party. In 1824, he'd be about 38.)
2. Thomas Jefferson (Same as Jackson, but more tolerant of opposing views)
3. James K Polk
4. Ulysses S Grant
5. Martin Van Buren
6. William McKinley
7. Benjamin Harrison
8. George HW Bush
9. Joe Biden *So far* 
10. James A Garfield
11. Franklin Pierce
12. Gerald Ford
13. George W Bush
14. James Buchanan
15. Warren G Harding
16. William H Taft
17. JFK
18. Harry S Truman
19. James Madison
20. Chester A Arthur
21. Bill Clinton
22. Millard Fillmore
23. Herbert Hoover
24. Jimmy Carter
25. Woodrow Wilson
26. LBJ
27. Barack Obama [2012 Obama would move up by about 10 spots]
28. George Washington
29. Calvin Coolidge
30. James Monroe
31. Rutherford B Hayes
32. William Henry Harrison
33. FDR (Eventually built the establishment around him. 1940 FDR would be in the top 10 or top 5)
34. Abraham Lincoln
35. John Adams
36. Richard Nixon
37. Theodore Roosevelt
38. John Quincy Adams
39. Ronald Reagan [Same as what I saw about FDR. 1984 Reagan would be top 10]
40. Dwight D Eisenhower
41. Grover Cleveland
42. Andrew Johnson
43. Zachary Taylor
44. Donald Trump
45. John Tyler