List of Presidents of the United States by occupation
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This is a list of the occupations of Presidents before they entered politics. Often, previous career experience is minimal; however, many presidents did spend their younger years in college and/or the military.
| Order | President | Previous occupation(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | George Washington | Land Surveyor, Farmer/plantation owner, Soldier (General of United Army of the Colonies) |
| 2 | John Adams | Lawyer, Farmer |
| 3 | Thomas Jefferson | Land Surveyor, Writer, Inventor, Lawyer, Architect, Farmer/Plantation owner |
| 4 | James Madison | Farmer/plantation owner, Lawyer |
| 5 | James Monroe | Farmer/plantation owner, Lawyer |
| 6 | John Quincy Adams | Lawyer |
| 7 | Andrew Jackson | Soldier, Lawyer |
| 8 | Martin Van Buren | Lawyer |
| 9 | William Harrison | Soldier |
| 10 | John Tyler | Lawyer |
| 11 | James Polk | Lawyer, Plantation owner |
| 12 | Zachary Taylor | Soldier |
| 13 | Millard Fillmore | Lawyer |
| 14 | Franklin Pierce | Lawyer |
| 15 | James Buchanan | Lawyer, Diplomat |
| 16 | Abraham Lincoln | Land Surveyor, Lawyer |
| 17 | Andrew Johnson | Tailor |
| 18 | Ulysses Grant | Soldier, General of the Army |
| 19 | Rutherford Hayes | Lawyer |
| 20 | James Garfield | School teacher, minister, soldier |
| 21 | Chester Arthur | School teacher, lawyer, collector of tariffs |
| 22, 24 | Grover Cleveland | Sheriff, lawyer, assistant teacher |
| 23 | Benjamin Harrison | Lawyer, journalist |
| 25 | William McKinley | Lawyer |
| 26 | Theodore Roosevelt | Public Official, Rancher |
| 27 | William Taft | Lawyer, judge, law reporter, dean of law school at the University of Cincinnati |
| 28 | Woodrow Wilson | Lawyer, professor, president of Princeton University |
| 29 | Warren Harding | Newspaper publisher/editor |
| 30 | Calvin Coolidge | Lawyer, Vice President of Northampton Savings Bank |
| 31 | Herbert Hoover | Engineer, Investor |
| 32 | Franklin Roosevelt | Lawyer |
| 33 | Harry Truman | Farmer, Men's clothing retailer |
| 34 | Dwight Eisenhower | Soldier, General, President of Columbia University, |
| 35 | John F. Kennedy | Writer, Sailor (Navy Lieutenant) |
| 36 | Lyndon Johnson | Teacher, Public Official |
| 37 | Richard Nixon | Lawyer, Sailor (Navy Lieutenant Commander) |
| 38 | Gerald Ford | Sailor (Navy Lieutenant Commander), Lawyer |
| 39 | Jimmy Carter | Sailor (Navy Lieutenant),[1] peanut farmer,[2] writer |
| 40 | Ronald Reagan[3][4] | Actor & broadcaster, President of the Screen Actors Guild[5] |
| 41 | George H. W. Bush | Pilot (Navy Lieutenant, Junior Grade),[6] Businessman (Oil)[7] |
| 42 | Bill Clinton | Lawyer, Law lecturer |
| 43 | George W. Bush | Businessman (Oil,[8] baseball)[9] |
| 44 | Barack Obama | Public Interest professional, Community organizer, Lawyer,[citation needed] Law Professor,[10] |
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.footagehouse.com/navy_sailors.htm
- ^ http://www.the-kingdom.ie/news/story/?trs=gbidid
- ^ http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/R/htmlR/reaganronal/reaganronal.htm
- ^ http://www.newsmax.com/entertainment/ronald_reagan_actor/2009/02/06/179099.html
- ^ http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/reagan/section4.rhtml
- ^ http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2007/spring/schoolhouse.html
- ^ http://198.181.165.52/article?assetid=0068080-00&templatename=/article/article.html
- ^ http://static.espn.go.com/mlb/bush/timeline.html
- ^ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/bush073099.htm
- ^ http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/was_barack_obama_really_a_constitutional_law.html
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