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To: Arkie2
"...(besides George Washington or maybe one of the very earliest Prez's) being elected with no previous elected office?"

Any number of the "military presidents" qualify---Andrew Jackson,Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Ike (one has to consider Washington a "military president" as well). I suspect there were civilians in there too.

53 posted on 02/19/2005 5:34:27 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel)
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To: Wonder Warthog

Andrew Jackson served both as representative and as senator in the US Congress.

I had forgotten about Taylor; he only served 16 months. The funny thing about Taylor is that he never even had VOTED! I should not have forgotten about Hoover. But it is interesting to note that the three Republicans who harmed the party the most politically all lacked prior office.

(No, I don't count Nixon in that list. Although the GOP lost 4 senate seats and the Presidency, they came right back in 1980 with the Reagan Revolution.)


99 posted on 02/19/2005 6:14:59 AM PST by dangus
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To: Wonder Warthog; Arkie2
***I suspect there were civilians in there too.***

IIRC Herbert Hoover was never elected to any office prior to becoming POTUS. He gained his fame through running a massive famine relief project (or something like that) in Europe after WWI.

174 posted on 02/19/2005 8:18:47 AM PST by Condor51 (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Gen G Patton)
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