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Presidents who were never state governors:

George Washington, John Adams, James Madison, John Q. Adams,Andrew Jackson Wm. H. Harrison,Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce,James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, U. S. Grant, James Garfield, Chester Arthur, Ben. Harrison, Wm. Howard Taft, Warren Harding, Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, George H. W. Bush and Barack Obama.

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Seventeen State Governors have subsequently become President :

  1. Thomas Jefferson (Gov. of Virginia from 1779 until 1781)
  2. James Monroe (Gov. of Virginia from 1799 until 1802 and in 1811)
  3. Martin Van Buren (Gov. of New York in 1829)
  4. John Tyler (Gov. of Virginia from 1825 until 1827)
  5. James K. Polk (Gov. of Tennessee from 1839 until 1841)
  6. Andrew Johnson (Gov. of Tennessee from 1853 until 1857.
  7. Rutherford B. Hayes (Gov. of Ohio from 1868 until 1872 and 1876 until 1877)
  8. Grover Cleveland (Gov. of New York from 1883 until 1884)
  9. William McKinley (Gov. of Ohio from 1892 until 1896)
  10. Theodore Roosevelt (Gov. of New York from 1899 until 1900)
  11. Woodrow Wilson (Gov. of New Jersey from 1911 until 1913)
  12. Calvin Coolidge (Gov. of Massachusetts from 1919 until 1921)
  13. Franklin D. Roosevelt (Gov. of New York from 1929 until 1932)
  14. Jimmy Carter (Gov. of Georgia from 1971 until 1975)
  15. Ronald Reagan (Gov. of California from 1967 until 1975)
  16. Bill Clinton (Gov. of Arkansas from 1979 until 1981 and 1983 until 1992)
  17. George W. Bush (Gov. of Texas from 1995 until 2000)

Three others were never state governors but were governors of territories.

Andrew Jackson was territorial governor of Florida ,

W.H. Harrison was territorial governor of Indiana ,

William Howard Taft was governor of the the Philippines when it became a US territory following the Spanish-American War.

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14 of the US presidents had no previous experience as a US Senator or as a state governor. They are:

George Washington (General of the Army of the United Colonies)

John Adams (Vice President under Washington)

James Madison (U.S. Congressman*, Secretary of State under Jefferson)

Zachary Taylor US army general )

Millard Fillmore (U.S. Congressman, Vice President under Taylor)

Abraham Lincoln (U.S. Congressman from Illinois*)

Ulysses S. Grant (U.S. Army General)

James Garfield (U.S. Congressman from Ohio)

Chester Alan Arthur (Vice President under Garfield)

William Howard Taft (U.S. Secretary of War, territorial governor of the Phillippines)

Herbert Hoover (U.S. Secretary of Commerce)

Dwight D. Eisenhower (U.S. Army Chief of Staff)

Gerald Ford (U.S. Congressman, Vice President under Nixon)

George H. W. Bush (U.S. Congressman, U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Director of CIA, Vice President under Reagan)

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U.S. Presidents Who Never Served As a State Governor:

  • George Washington
  • John Adams
  • James Madison
  • John Quincy Adams
  • William Henry Harrison
  • Zachary Taylor
  • Millard Fillmore
  • Franklin Pierce
  • James Buchanan
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • James A. Garfield
  • Chester A. Arthur
  • Benjamin Harrison
  • William Howard Taft
  • Warren G. Harding
  • Herbert Hoover
  • Harry S Truman
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Richard M. Nixon
  • Gerald R. Ford
  • George H. W. Bush
  • Barack Obama
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trump wasnt a senator .. no even close .. he was a bum !

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George H.W. Bush.

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