25 of the 43 presidents, including the current President Obama, were members of the bar and qualified to practice as lawyers. Some of them, such as Jefferson, John Quincy Adams and Woodrow Wilson, had a very limited practice.
(Obama is known as the 44th President, but only 43 people have been President. Cleveland is counted twice, as both the 22nd and 24 presidents.)
As of June 2014, we have had 44 U.S. Presidents. Of those, 27 worked as lawyers before entering political life. This leaves 17 who were not lawyers. Nine former presidents were U.S. Army generals.
Out of 43 presidents, 25 have been lawyers. It also helps to have government service on your resume -- 17 governors, 15 senators and 19 members of the House of Representatives have become president... 16 senators after the 2008 election is complete.
Only six actually had law degrees:
Rutherford B. Hayes - LL. B. - Harvard Law School
William Taft - LL. B. - University of Cincinnati Law School
Richard Nixon - LL. B. - Duke University School of Law
Gerald Ford - LL. B. - Yale Law School
Bill Clinton - J.D. - Yale Law School
Barack Obama - J.D. - Harvard Law School
The very first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer. Andrew Johnson, a tailor by trade was the Vice President to Lincoln and became President himself after Lincolns assassination. Ulysses S. Grant a career military man became the 18th President but the following seven Republican Presidents, listed below, were all lawyers.
II.) Rutherford Birchard Hayes
III) James Abram Garfield
IV) Chester Alan Arthur
V) Benjamin Harrison
VI) William Mckinley
VII) Theodore Roosevelt
VIII) William Howard Taft
Taft was followed by Warren G. Harding who studied law but did not like it and was a business man before becoming President. Harding's vice-president and successor on his death, Calvin Coolidge, was a lawyer, who was then followed by Herbert Hoover, a mining engineer. The next Republican President elected was Dwight D Eisenhower who was not a lawyer but a military man but the next Republican President elected was Richard "tricky Dick" Nixon a consummate lawyer. Gerald R Ford was a lawyer but Ronald Regan was an actor although not a consummate actor and both of the Bush's, father and son, were businessmen before entering politics.
In total there have been 18 Republican Presidents since Abraham Lincoln was elected. An astounding 10 of those eighteen Presidents were lawyers.
Only six earned a law degree from a law school
Rutherford B. Hayes - LL. B. - Harvard Law School
William Taft - LL. B. - University of Cincinnati Law School
Richard Nixon - LL. B. - Duke University School of Law
Gerald Ford - LL. B. - Yale Law School
Bill Clinton - J.D. - Yale Law School
Barack Obama - J.D. - Harvard Law School
(Several others were admitted to the bar by passing the bar exam. In fact, the law degree is a relatively new idea. The J.D. degree is even newer.)
Six have earned a law degree.
Only six actually had law degrees:
Rutherford B. Hayes - LL. B. - Harvard Law School
William Taft - LL. B. - University of Cincinnati Law School
Richard Nixon - LL. B. - Duke University School of Law
Gerald Ford - LL. B. - Yale Law School
Bill Clinton - J.D. - Yale Law School
Barack Obama - J.D. - Harvard Law School
Nineteen others were admitted the to bar by passing the bar exam without a law degree.
John Adams, Jefferson, John Q. Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Tyler, Polk, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Benjamin Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley, Taft, Wilson, Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt, Nixon, Ford, Clinton and Obama were all admitted to the bar and so were licensed to practice law. However, Jefferson and Wilson did not practice law and John Q. Adams only practiced for a short time before he got into full time diplomatic and political work.
In addition, Madison, Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson and Harry Truman took some law courses but did not take the bar exam.
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, John Tyler, James Polk and etc.
No- several US presidents were not lawyers or law students. Some that were not at all trained in law were Washington, Grant. Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Carter and George Bush 43 and 45,
During the 1920s, the Republican presidents acted to support big business.
Cleveland, wilson,fdr,clinton and obama
25 presidents form the repulican party were elected to be the president of the USA.
Republican Party : 19 Presidents; 23 TermsDemocratic Party : 14 Presidents; 22 TermsDemocratic-Republican Party : 4 Presidents; 7 TermsWhig Party : 4 Presidents; 2 TermsNational Union Party : 2 Presidents; 1 TermIndependent : 1 President; 2 TermsFederalist Party : 1 President; 1 Term(updated 22 Jan 2017)
Most of them are lawyers. Most of them had experience either in Congress or as a state governor.
About 69% 29/42 = 0.69047
lawyers
the judicial group
Abraham Lincoln was a republican
Nineteen US presidents were lawyers before becoming elected.
18
Many presidents were lawyers perviously.
The current president, Barack Obama, is not a Republican.
No, only 25 were lawyers
Lincoln - Republican Garfield - Republican McKinley - Republican Kennedy - Democrat
Richard Nixon is the only presindent born in California
During the 1920s, the Republican presidents acted to support big business.