Previous Government Experience of U.S. Presidents

1. George Washington: General; Continental Congress; Constitutional Convention
2. John Adams: Vice President; Continental Congress; diplomat
3. Thomas Jefferson: Vice President; Cabinet; Continental Congress; diplomat
4. James Madison: Continental Congress; Constitutional Convention; Congress; Cabinet
5. James Monroe: Congress; Cabinet
6. John Quincy Adams: Congress; Diplomat; Cabinet
7. Andrew Jackson: General
8. Martin Van Buren: Vice President; Cabinet; Congress
9. William Henry Harrison: General
10. John Tyler: Vice Presidential succession; Congress
11. James K. Polk: Speaker of the House; Governor (Tennessee)
12. Zacharay Taylor: General
13. Millard Fillmore: Vice Presidential succession; Congress
14. Franklin Pearce: Congress
15. James Buchanan: House, Senate, Diplomat, Cabinet
16. Abraham Lincoln: House, 2 years
17. Andrew Johnson: Vice Presidential succession; House, 10 years; Governor (Tennessee); Senate
18. Ulysses S. Grant: General
19. Rutherford B. Hayes: House, 2 years; Governor (Ohio) 9 years
20. James A. Garfield: House, 18 years
21. Chester A. Arthur: Vice Presidential Succession
22. Grover Cleveland: Governor (New York) 2 years; Mayor (Buffalo) 1 year
23. Benjamin Harrison: Senator (Indiana) 6 years
24. Grover Cleveland: only President elected with a previous non-consecutive term as President
25. William McKinley; House, 14 years; Governor (Ohio) 4 years
26. Theodore Roosevelt: Vice Presidential succession; Governor (New York) 2 years; Asst. Sec. of Navy
27. William Howard Taft: Cabinet
28. Woodrow Wilson: Governor (New Jersey) 2 years
29. Warren Harding: Senator (Ohio) 6 years
30. Calvin Coolidge: Vice Presidential succession; Governor (Massachusetts) 2 years
31. Herbert Hoover: Cabinet
32. Franklin Roosevelt: Governor (New York) 4 years; Asst. Sec. Navy
33. Harry Truman: Vice Presidential succession; Senator (Missouri) 10 years
34. Dwight Eisenhower: General
35. John Kennedy: Senate, 8 years; House, 6 years (Massachusetts)
36. Lyndon Johnson: Vice Presidential succession; Senate 12 years; House, 12 years (Texas)
37. Richard Nixon: Vice President, 8 years; Senate, 2 years; House, 4 years (California)
38. Gerald Ford: Vice Presidential succession; House (Michigan) 25 years
39. Jimmy Carter: Governor, 4 years (Georgia)
40. Ronald Reagan: Governor, 8 years (California)
41. George H.W. Bush: Vice President, 8 years; Diplomat, CIA, House (Texas) 4 years
42. Bill Clinton: Governor, 12 years (Arkansas)
43. George W. Bush: Governor, 6 years (Texas)
44. Barack Obama: Senate, 4 years (Illinois)
45. Donald Trump: ----