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To: 2ndDivisionVet

To date, sixteen senators have also served as president of the United States. Three senators, Warren G. Harding, John F. Kennedy, and Barack Obama moved directly from the U.S. Senate to the White House.
(Photo: Warren G. Harding. Senate Historical Office)


James Monroe
Senator, 1790-1794
President, 1817-1825

John Quincy Adams
Senator, 1803-1808
President, 1825-1829

Andrew Jackson
Senator, 1797-1798; 1823-1825
President, 1829-1837

Martin Van Buren
Senator, 1821-1828
President, 1837-1841

William Henry Harrison
Senator, 1825-1828
President, 1841

John Tyler
Senator, 1827-1836
President, 1841-1845

Franklin Pierce
Senator, 1837-1842
President, 1853-1857

James Buchanan
Senator, 1834-1845
President, 1857-1861

Andrew Johnson
Senator, 1857-1862; 1875
President, 1865-1869

Benjamin Harrison
Senator, 1881-1887
President, 1889-1893

Warren G. Harding
Senator, 1915-1921
President, 1921-1923

Harry S. Truman
Senator, 1935-1945
President, 1945-1953

John F. Kennedy
Senator, 1953-1960
President, 1961-1963

Lyndon B. Johnson
Senator, 1949-1961
President, 1963-1969

Richard M. Nixon
Senator, 1950-1953
President, 1969-1974

Barack Obama
Senator, 2005-2008
President, 2009- present

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/senators_became_president.htm

Most of them are/were Rats.


5 posted on 02/11/2015 4:31:57 PM PST by shove_it (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen -- Dennis Prager)
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To: shove_it

Nope, about half and half, if you count Federalists and Whigs.


6 posted on 02/11/2015 4:35:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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