She has more executive experience with two years as governor than all three of the Senators in the race combined.
In the past 200 years, were there any good presidents who came directly from the Senate? Of the ones who did, it looks like their major accomplishment as president was dying in office.
| President | Major Jobs Before the Presidency | Jobs After the Presidency |
| George Washington | surveyor, planter, general of the Army of the United Colonies | planter, lieutenant-general of all the U.S. armies |
| John Adams | schoolteacher, lawyer, diplomat, vice president under Washington | writer |
| Thomas Jefferson | writer, inventor, lawyer, architect, governor of Virginia, secretary of state under Washington, vice president under Adams | writer, gentleman farmer, rector at the University of Virginia |
| James Madison | lawyer, political theorist, U.S. congressman, secretary of state under Jefferson | rector at the University of Virginia |
| James Monroe | soldier, lawyer, U.S. senator, governor of Virginia | writer, regent at the University of Virginia |
| John Quincy Adams | lawyer, diplomat, professor, U.S. senator, secretary of state under Monroe | U.S. representative from Massachusetts |
| Andrew Jackson | soldier, U.S. congressman, U.S. senator, governor of Florida | gentleman farmer |
| Martin Van Buren | lawyer, U.S. senator, governor of New York, vice president under Jackson | activist for Free Soil Party |
| William Henry Harrison | soldier, diplomat, U.S. congressman, U.S. senator from Ohio | died in office |
| John Tyler | lawyer, U.S. congressman, U.S. senator, vice president under Harrison | lawyer, chancellor of the College of William and Mary, member of the Confederate House of Representatives |
| James Knox Polk | lawyer, U.S. congressman, governor of Tennessee | died 103 days after leaving office |
| Zachary Taylor | soldier | died in office |
| Millard Fillmore | lawyer, U.S. congressman, vice president under Taylor | rogue political activist, chancellor of the University of Buffalo |
| Franklin Pierce | lawyer, soldier, U.S. congressman, U.S. senator from New Hampshire | gentleman farmer |
| James Buchanan | lawyer, U.S. congressman, U.S. senator, U.S. secretary of state | writer |
| Abraham Lincoln | postmaster, lawyer, U.S. congressman from Illinois | died in office |
| Andrew Johnson | tailor, U.S. congressman, governor of Tennessee, U.S. senator from Tennessee, vice president under Lincoln | U.S. senator from Tennessee |
| Ulysses Simpson Grant | U.S. Army general | political activist, writer |
| Rutherford Birchard Hayes | lawyer, soldier, U.S. congressman, governor of Ohio | education activist, president of the National Prison Reform Association |
| James Abram Garfield | schoolteacher, soldier, U.S. representative from Ohio | died in office |
| Chester Alan Arthur | schoolteacher, lawyer, tariff collector, vice president under Garfield | lawyer |
| Grover Cleveland | sheriff, lawyer, mayor, governor of New York | reelected president |
| Benjamin Harrison | lawyer, soldier, journalist, U.S. senator from Indiana | lawyer, lecturer |
| William McKinley | soldier, lawyer, U.S. congressman, governor of Ohio | died in office |
| Theodore Roosevelt | rancher, soldier, governor of New York, vice president under McKinley | hunter, writer |
| William Howard Taft | lawyer, judge, dean of the University of Cincinnati Law School, U.S. secretary of war | professor, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
| Woodrow Wilson | lawyer, professor, president of Princeton University, governor of New Jersey | retired in poor health |
| Warren Gamaliel Harding | newspaper editor, U.S. senator from Ohio | died in office |
| Calvin Coolidge | lawyer, governor of Massachusetts, vice president under Harding | writer, president of the American Antiquarian Society |
| Herbert Clark Hoover | engineer, U.S. secretary of commerce | chair of the Hoover Commission on administrative reform |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | lawyer, governor of New York | died in office |
| Harry S. Truman | farmer, soldier, haberdasher, judge, U.S. senator, vice president under Roosevelt | writer |
| Dwight David Eisenhower | supreme commander of the Allied forces in Europe, U.S. Army chief of staff | writer |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy | journalist, U.S. congressman, U.S. senator from Massachusetts | died in office |
| Lyndon Baines Johnson | schoolteacher, soldier, congressman, U.S. senator from Texas, vice president under Kennedy | rancher, writer |
| Richard Milhous Nixon | lawyer, U.S. congressman, U.S. senator, vice president under Eisenhower | writer |
| Gerald Rudolph Ford | lawyer, U.S. congressman, vice president under Nixon | writer |
| James Earl Carter, Jr. | peanut farmer, governor of Georgia | writer, humanitarian, Nobel-prize winning statesman |
| Ronald Wilson Reagan | movie actor, corporate spokesman, governor of California | writer |
| George Herbert Walker Bush | oil executive, U.S. congressman, U.S. ambassador to the UN, Director of CIA, vice president under Reagan | private citizen; teamed with President Clinton to form tsunami and Hurricane Katrina aid funds |
| William Jefferson Clinton | lawyer, governor of Arkansas | writer, independent ambassador; teamed with President G.H.W. Bush to form tsunami and Hurricane Katrina aid funds |
| George Walker Bush | oil executive, sport team owner, governor of Texas | — |
Thanks for a wonderful summary.
Oughta be a post of its own.
Probably is, huh?