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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica?

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To: mike thomas who wrote (11793)3/21/1998 10:16:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen  Read Replies (2) of 20981
 
The banning of lawyers from public positions would do more to right the republic than the reincarnation of Lincoln and Washington.

The following U.S. Presidents' profession is listed as "Lawyer" prior to becoming President:

John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
(7 out of the first 8 Presidents)
John Tyler
James K. Polk
Millard Fillmore
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
Abraham Lincoln
Rutherford Hayes
Chester Arthur
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
William H. Taft
Calvin Coolidge
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
William Clinton

Who is not on the list?

George Washington: Planter
William H. Harrison: Soldier
Zachary Taylor: Soldier
Andrew Johnson: Tailor
Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier
James Garfield: Teacher
Woodrow Wilson: Teacher
Warren G. Harding: Journalist
Herbert Hoover: Engineer
Dwight D. Eisenhower: Soldier
John F. Kennedy: Author
Lyndon B. Johnson: Public Official
James E. Carter: Farmer
Ronald W. Reagan: Actor
George Bush: Public Official
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