Talk:List of presidents of the United States by other offices held

message: Things to add to the article as time permits:
*Taft = 6th Circuit Fed. judge, United States Solicitor General, Chief Justice of SCOTUS
*T Roosevelt = United States Civil Service Commission
*Presidency of Colleges (Wilson, Eisenhower, others?)
:(See note below by Mark Adler (Markles))
*Chairman of Political Party (GHW Bush, others?)
*GHW Bush (Ambassador (China) before formal resumption of diplomatic relations)
*statewide offices (I have reviewed Wilson through Bush)
*state legislative office (Senate, House) - new category
Also
GHW was Cia director and UN ambassor 168.7.229.178 (talk) 01:28, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: * Great idea!  Let's omit Presidency of Colleges, though.  This ought to remain a list of political offices.  Besides, the college Presidencies are included in List of U.S. Presidents by college education.--Mark Adler (Markles) 21:56, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: To Do List

message: Tyler was a member of the Confederate Provisional Congress and a member elect of the House of Representatives when he died. Is this list restricted to US political offices or would it be appropriate to include the CS ones?  --Gary J 16:32, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point, should certainly be mentioned. - Jmabel | Talk 06:40, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: John Tyler and the Confederacy

message: I compiled a list of what offices the Presidents were holding at the time they were elected President (I counted an office if he resigned it after the campaign had begun):
Number	President              	Occupation When Elected
1     	George Washington      	private citizen
2     	John Adams             	Vice President of the United States
3     	Thomas Jefferson       	Vice President of the United States
4     	James Madison          	Secretary of State
5     	James Monroe           	Secretary of State
6     	John Quincy Adams      	Secretary of State
7     	Andrew Jackson         	private citizen
8     	Martin Van Buren       	Vice President of the United States
9     	William Henry Harrison 	private citizen
10    	John Tyler             	succeeded
11    	James K. Polk          	private citizen
12    	Zachary Taylor         	Army General
13    	Millard Fillmore       	succeeded
14    	Franklin Pierce        	private citizen
15    	James Buchanan         	Ambassador to Great Britain
16    	Abraham Lincoln        	private citizen
17    	Andrew Johnson         	succeeded
18    	Ulysses S. Grant       	Army General
19    	Rutherford B. Hayes    	Governor of Ohio
20    	James A. Garfield      	Representative from Ohio
21    	Chester Alan Arthur    	succeeded
22    	Grover Cleveland       	Governor of New York
23    	Benjamin Harrison      	private citizen
24    	Grover Cleveland       	private citizen
25    	William McKinley       	private citizen
26    	Theodore Roosevelt     	succeeded
27    	William Howard Taft    	Secretary of War
28    	Woodrow Wilson         	Governor of New Jersey
29    	Warren G. Harding      	Senator from Ohio
30    	Calvin Coolidge        	succeeded
31    	Herbert Hoover         	Secretary of Commerce
32    	Franklin D. Roosevelt  	Governor of New York
33    	Harry S Truman         	succeeded
34    	Dwight D. Eisenhower   	Army General
35    	John F. Kennedy        	Senator from Massachusetts
36    	Lyndon B. Johnson      	succeeded
37    	Richard M. Nixon       	private citizen
38    	Gerald R. Ford         	succeeded
39    	Jimmy Carter           	Governor of Georgia
40    	Ronald Reagan          	private citizen
41    	George Bush            	Vice President of the United States
42    	Bill Clinton           	Governor of Arkansas
43    	George W. Bush         	Governor of Texas
44    	John McCainBarack Obama	Senator from ArizonaSenator from Illinois
So including McCain/Obama (since they all hold the same office), that's:
Office           	Number
Not in office    	10
Succession       	9
Governor         	7
Cabinet          	5
Vice President   	4
Congress (Senate)	3
Military         	3
Congress (House) 	1
Ambassador       	1
*Carter was not governor when he was elected president. His term expired in January 1975 and Georgia law did not allow him to serve consecutive terms. So he spent most of 1975 and 1976 as a private citizen who was running for president full-time. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:50, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Occupation When Elected

message: Taft was notable for being the only president to have an important government job,  after he was president.   Were there any others ?  I had a look through the list and didn't see any.Eregli bob (talk) 07:24, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Government offices after presidency 

message: The lead currently states:
Every President of the United States has served as either:
* Vice President of the United States
* a Member of Congress (either U.S. Senator or Representative)
* a Governor of a state
* a Lieutenant Governor of a state
* a Cabinet Secretary
* a General of the United States Army
Why is lieutenant governor listed here? According to another section of the article, the only presidents to serve as lieutenant governors were Harding and Coolidge -- but Harding also served as a U.S. senator before being president, and Coolidge served as a governor before being president. So the list would still be accurate if lieutenant governor were omitted. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:38, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why Lt. Governor? 

message: Herbert Hoover is incorrectly listed twice on this list. He's under Cabinet secretaries, as well as no previous political office. However, his entry under "Presidents with no prior political office" lists his tenure as Secretary of Commerce as a note. Shouldn't this second entry be removed? Jionunez (talk) 14:40, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I think what was meant by "political" was "elected." These categories could have been made with the thought that the Cabinet isn't political, but it often is. I think calling it "elected" instead will be clearer, so I have made that change. Earthscent (talk) 14:47, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hoover 

message: There have been sixteen Senators who went on to become President.
Three were elected whilst still a Senator.
Six were elected after serving as Vice President, in fact three of these six, Nixon, Truman and Johnson had to resign from the Senate in order to become Vice President.
This therefore leaves seven former Senators who were elected President without ever serving as Vice President in between their departure from the Senate and the beginning of their presidency.
Vice Presidents are often speculated of whether they will become President one day and this rather makes a former Senator who has never been Vice President who went on to win the presidency a noteworthy distinction to make. 122.108.156.100 (talk) 14:56, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Former Senators who became President without ever becoming Vice President 

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