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A congressman can't win. It has to be someone who has been a governor.

7 posted on 02/15/2005 7:34:03 AM PST by FBD ("A nation without borders is not a nation." -- Ronald Reagan)

>> A congressman can't win. It has to be someone who has been a governor. <<

President Abraham Lincoln
Highest previous office: U.S. Representative from Illinois, 1847-1849

President James A. Garfield
Highest previous office: U.S. Representative from Ohio, 1863-1880

Presidents who were never Governors:
George Washington
John Adams
James Madison
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Jackson
John Tyler
Zachary Taylor
Millard Fillmore
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
James A. Garfield
Chester A. Arthur
Benjamin Harrison
Warren G.Harding
Herbert C. Hoover
Harry S. Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F.Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard M. Nixon
Gerald R. Ford
George H.W. Bush

129 posted on 02/23/2005 9:11:52 PM PST by BillyBoy (Find out the TRUTH about the Chicago Democrat Machine's "Best Friend" in the GOP - www.NOLaHood.com)

"It has to be someone who has been a governor." Or something very, very impressive. Good point. A single vote on an omnibus, and you get spanked both ways.

131 posted on 03/17/2005 2:12:55 PM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (I hope my [hello?] watermarks aren't too [yaa-aah!] distracting.)

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