[fredhead]

Presidents with no military service:

John Adams
John Quincy Adams
Martin Van Buren
Grover Cleveland
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bill Clinton
Barack Obama

All this according to......http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States_by_military_service

[Michael Zak]

Thank you, though it hurts to see BHO listed among so many better presidents.

[BroJoeK]

Thanks! I always love it when arguments can be answered with facts... ;-)

Curious to learn that Jefferson was officially a Colonel, even though hardly the warrior type.

Let's see, if we limit our list to only those with no connections at all to the military:

• Martin Van Buren (Old Kinderhook)
• Grover Cleveland (ma, ma, where's my pa?)
• William Howard Taft (the Portly One)
• Woodrow Wilson ("gee, I hate that guy" -GB)
• Warren Harding (too busy philandering)
• Calvin Coolidge (Silent Cal, not the military type)
• Bill Clinton (draft dodger)
• Barack Obama (Manchurian Candidate)

Withe huge, huge apologies to one of our best ever presidents, Calvin Coolidge, for putting him in such a rogues gallery!