Ted Cruz is a superstar. An exceptional leader like him comes once in a lifetime if ever.
It wouldn’t matter if he was dog catcher in the Aleuts, he is destined to be America’s leader and nothing can change that.
Senators that have been elected President
Sourced from Yahoo. — cut and pasted.
[Note some of the Senators where really crossovers. Governor than Senator or Senator then Governor Senator to VP or prominent Cabinet member. Plus you can scratch Monroe, Adams and Adams as they were special class of Senator. See end of post. It looks like plain old Senators getting elected are rare, and the only one I really know of really really sucks]
Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, William Harrison, Tyler, Pierce, Buchanan. Andrew Johnson, Benjamin Harrison, Harding, Truman, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Nixon
Governors:
Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe
Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
James Polk, Andrew Johnson Rutherford B Hayes, William McKinley McKinley
Woodrow Wilson -
Calvin Coolidge
James Earl Carter
Ronald Wilson Reagan
William Jefferson Clinton
George Walker Bush
Two Territorial Governors later became President. They are:
Andrew Jackson
William Henry Harrison
Teekno answered 6 years ago
The last time a sitting Senator was elected President was 1960. Since 1964, every person elected President has been a sitting or former governor or VP.
Former VPs are popular too. Let’s go back to FDR and see the highest level of the president’s prior experience:
FDR - Governor
Truman - VP
Eisenhower - General
Kennedy - Senator
Johnson - VP
Nixon - VP
Ford - VP
Carter - Governor
Reagan - Governor
Bush Sr. - VP
Clinton - Governor
Bush Jr. - Governor