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2016 Postmortem

Journeyman

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2. 16 Presidents were Senators at one time before their election to the Presidency. . .

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Sun Jan 12, 2014, 09:14 PM

Jan 2014

You decide:

James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Benjamin Harrison, Warren G. Harding, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson , Richard M. Nixon and Barack Obama.

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Do ex Senators make the best Presidents? [View all] yortsed snacilbuper Jan 2014 OP

Lincoln and FDR tell us no. PeteSelman Jan 2014 #1

16 Presidents were Senators at one time before their election to the Presidency. . . Journeyman Jan 2014 #2

They've got a better record than governors with the exception of FDR. craigmatic Jan 2014 #3

We have a damn good one now. nt mikekohr Jan 2014 #4