List of Presidents of the United States by previous experience
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List of Presidents of the United States by previous experience

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President	Previous 1	Previous 2	Previous 3	Previous 4	Occupation	State

1	-	George Washington	Out of office	Constitutional Convention	Out of office	Military	Planter, land surveyor	Virginia

2	-	John Adams	Vice President	Foreign service	Continental Congress	State legislator	Lawyer, farmer	Massachusetts

3	-	Thomas Jefferson	Vice President	Secretary of State	Foreign service	Congressman	Planter, lawyer, land surveyor, architect	Virginia

4	-	James Madison	Secretary of State	U.S. Representative	Constitutional Convention	State legislator	Planter	Virginia

5	-	James Monroe	Secretary of State	Foreign service	State governor	U.S. Senator	Planter, lawyer	Virginia

6	-	John Quincy Adams	Secretary of State	Foreign service	U.S. Senator	State legislator	Lawyer	Massachusetts

7	-	Andrew Jackson	Out of office	U.S. Senator	Military	U.S. Senator	Lawyer, military officer	Tennessee

8	-	Martin Van Buren	Vice President	Secretary of State	State governor	U.S. Senator	Lawyer, political organizer	New York

9	-	William Henry Harrison	Foreign service	U.S. Senator	U.S. Representative	State governor	Military	Ohio

10	-	John Tyler	Vice President	U.S. Senator	State governor	U.S. Representative	Lawyer	Virginia

11	-	James K. Polk	Out of office	State governor	Speaker of the House	U.S. Representative	Lawyer, planter	Tennessee

12	-	Zachary Taylor	Military	---	---	---	Military	Louisiana

13	-	Millard Fillmore	Vice President	State office	Out of office	U.S. Representative	Lawyer	New York

14	-	Franklin Pierce	Out of office	Military	U.S. Senator	U.S. Representative	Lawyer	New Hampshire

15	-	James Buchanan	Foreign service	Out of office	Secretary of State	U.S. Senator	Lawyer	Pennsylvania

16	-	Abraham Lincoln	Out of office	U.S. Representative	State legislator	Military	Lawyer, land surveyor	Illinois

17	-	Andrew Johnson	Vice President	Military governor	U.S. Senator	State governor	Tailor	Tennessee

18	-	Ulysses S. Grant	Military	---	---	---	Military	Illinois

19	-	Rutherford B. Hayes	State governor	Out of office	State governor	U.S. Representative	Lawyer	Ohio

20	-	James A. Garfield	U.S. Representative	Military	State legislator	---	Ordained minister, lawyer, teacher	Ohio

21	-	Chester A. Arthur	Vice President	Out of office	Federal office	Out of office	Lawyer, teacher, tariff collector	New York

22	-	Grover Cleveland	State governor	Local office	---	---	Lawyer	New York

23	-	Benjamin Harrison	Out of office	U.S. Senator	Out of office	Military	Lawyer	Indiana

24	-	Grover Cleveland	Out of office	President of the U.S.	State governor	Local office	Lawyer	New York

25	-	William McKinley	State governor	U.S. Representative	Military	---	Lawyer	Ohio

26	-	Theodore Roosevelt	Vice President	State governor	Military	Federal office	Historian, public servant, environmentalist, scientist, military officer, policeman, rancher	New York

27	-	William Howard Taft	Secretary of War	Territorial governor	Judicial	Federal office	Lawyer, dean	Ohio

28	-	Woodrow Wilson	State governor	---	---	---	Academic	New Jersey

29	-	Warren G. Harding	U.S. Senator	Out of office	State legislator	---	Journalist, publisher	Ohio

30	-	Calvin Coolidge	Vice President	State Governor	State office	State legislator	Lawyer	Massachusetts

31	-	Herbert Hoover	Secretary of Commerce	Out of office	Federal office	---	Mining engineer	California

32	-	Franklin D. Roosevelt	State governor	Out of office	Federal office	State legislator	Lawyer	New York

33	-	Harry S. Truman	Vice President	U.S. Senator	County commissioner (County court)	Military	Businessperson, farmer	Missouri

34	-	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Military	---	---	---	Military officer, university president	Kansas

35	-	John F. Kennedy	U.S. Senator	U.S. Representative	Military	---	Journalist, military officer	Massachusetts

36	-	Lyndon B. Johnson	Vice President	U.S. Senator	U.S. Representative	Federal office	Teacher, military officer	Texas

37	-	Richard Nixon	Out of office	Vice President	U.S. Senator	U.S. Representative	Lawyer, naval officer	California

38	-	Gerald Ford	Vice President	U.S. Representative	Military	---	Lawyer	Michigan

39	-	Jimmy Carter	Out of office	State governor	State legislator	Military	Farmer, naval officer	Georgia

40	-	Ronald Reagan	Out of office	State governor	---	Military	Actor	California

41	-	George H. W. Bush	Vice President	Out of office	Federal office	Foreign service	Businessperson, military pilot	Texas

42	-	Bill Clinton	State governor	State Attorney General	---	---	Lawyer, teacher	Arkansas

43	George-W-Bush.jpeg	George W. Bush	State governor	Out of office	military	---	Businessperson, military pilot	Texas

44	-	Barack Obama	U.S. Senator	State legislator	---	---	Lawyer, teacher, community organizer	Illinois

45	-	Donald Trump	---	---	---	---	Real estate developer, reality television personality	New York

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Donald Trump is the first president without prior government.

final_sentence: Donald Trump is the first president without prior government.