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To: i-node who wrote (656766)5/27/2012 11:07:57 PM
From: puborectalis  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 1578933
 
14 of the US presidents had no previous experience as a US Senator or as a state governor. They are:

George Washington (General of the Army of the United Colonies)
John Adams (Vice President under Washington)
James Madison (U.S. Congressman*, Secretary of State under Jefferson)
Zachary Taylor (no official positions)
Millard Fillmore (U.S. Congressman, Vice President under Taylor)
Abraham Lincoln (U.S. Congressman from Illinois*)
Ulysses S. Grant (U.S. Army General)
James Garfield (U.S. Representative from Ohio)
Chester Alan Arthur (Vice President under Garfield)
William Howard Taft (U.S. Secretary of War)
Herbert Hoover (U.S. Secretary of Commerce)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (U.S. Army Chief of Staff)
Gerald Ford (U.S. Congressman*, Vice President under Nixon)
George H. W. Bush (U.S. Congressman, U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Director of CIA, Vice President under Reagan)

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