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To: mdittmar

Who's the last one to become President? It's not LBJ he got there via the VP route.


5 posted on 01/22/2007 5:22:33 PM PST by nomorelurker (wetraginhell)
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To: nomorelurker
Who's the last one to become President? It's not LBJ he got there via the VP route.

John Kennedy, elected in 1960. The only other Senators ever to be elected directly to the Presidency were Warren Harding, elected in 1920, and James Garfield, elected in 1880.

Not one of them completed his first term in office.

8 posted on 01/22/2007 5:33:29 PM PST by derlauerer ("Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." - N. Bonaparte)
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