[DOC] [TLE] Governors Who Became President | Center on the American Governor [PAR] Seventeen presidents* (almost 40%) had previously held office as chief ... one of 
the nation's 43 presidents and one of the 17 who had been a state's governor. ... 
The first governor to win the White House, Thomas Jefferson from Virginia, was... [DOC] [TLE] Have We Ever Elected a President Who Has Never Before Won an ... [PAR] Aug 21, 2015 ... ... office (e.g., vice-president, senator, U.S. representative, state senator, governor
, or state representative). ... Donald Trump has never been elected to public office 
(a big ... We have had presidents who have had previous careers in ... but it was 
pointed out that he served in Virginia's House of Burgesses. [DOC] [TLE] George Clinton (vice president) - Wikipedia [PAR] George Clinton was an American soldier and statesman, considered one of the ... 
Although he had been elected governor, he retained his ... to the first 
inauguration and gave an impressive dinner to celebrate it. [DOC] [TLE] Bill Clinton - Wikipedia [PAR] Second term. Campaign  1996  2nd inauguration  Operation Infinite Reach  
Bombing of ... Clinton was Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 
1992, and ... At age 46, Clinton was the third-youngest president, and the first 
from the Baby .... This effort was unsuccessful and Clinton said in 1992 that he 
had been... [DOC] [TLE] Would Obama have been a different president had he been a ... [PAR] Dec 7, 2015 ... While it's true that voters would've known more about Obama's executive style 
had he been a governor first, he most likely would have led the... [DOC] [TLE] Jimmy Carter - U.S. President - Biography.com [PAR] Dec 6, 2015 ... Biography.com explores the life of Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the ... In 1941, 
Jimmy Carter became the first person from his father's side of ... Once he was 
elected governor, Carter largely returned to the progressive values he had ... like 
an impotent leader who had been outmaneuvered by a group of... [DOC] [TLE] Bill Clinton - U.S. Governor, U.S. President - Biography.com [PAR] Jul 27, 2016 ... Biography.com presents Bill Clinton, the 42nd U.S. president, who served ... in 
1978 he won the governorship, becoming the youngest governor the country had 
... "My grandparents had a lot to do with my early commitment to... [DOC] [TLE] Rick Perry - Governor - Biography.com [PAR] Aug 31, 2016 ... Republican politician and longtime Texas Governor Rick Perry was ... In 2015, he 
announced his second run for president in the 2016 election. ... Synopsis; Early 
Life and Education; Political Career; Political Views; Personal Life .... He wanted 
to her to step down after she had been arrested for driving drunk... [DOC] [TLE] Has there ever been a past US president which had never ... - Quora [PAR] Dec 12, 2015 ... Dwight D. Eisenhower. Believing that a general should not participate in politics, 
one ... which had never previously held a political position (i.e. senator, governor, 
etc.) ... Certainly in the context of Trump and GOP proposal he would have ... The 
first two presidents, actually, had no elected political positions... [DOC] [TLE] Ted Cruz says about half of presidents were previously governors ... [PAR] Apr 27, 2015 ... "About half of the presidents have been governors; half of them, senators." ... 
Texan Rick Perry, the former governor who might bid again for president, has 
indicated he ... the "senator versus governor" framework for president in the first 
place. ... Another 11 presidents also had neither distinction including... [DOC] [TLE] Woodrow Wilson: Life Before the PresidencyMiller Center [PAR] Thomas Woodrow Wilsonhe would later drop his first namewas born on 
December ... had been reared in Ohio before moving to Virginia in 1849, he 
became .... of the New Jersey Democratic Party about running for governor of the 
state in... [DOC] [TLE] Gerald R. Ford | whitehouse.gov [PAR] He had been the first Vice President chosen under the terms of the Twenty-fifth 
Amendment and, in the

Question: He was the first president who had been a governor
Answer: Thomas Jefferson