What were the professions of the previous 45 US presidents
The highest number of presidents, amounting to 32, had previous military experience, including 9 Army generals.
There have been 45 presidents of the United States of America from various professional backgrounds. Some of them were US Army professionals, some of them were lawyers, some were businessmen and some were teachers.
The highest number of presidents, amounting to 32, had previous military experience, including 9 Army generals. The names include George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush.
Of them, George Washington was commanding general of the Continental Army, the pre-independence equivalent of the US Army, and Jackson, W. H. Harrison, Taylor, Pierce, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, B. Harrison, and Eisenhower were US Army generals.
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A total of 25 presidents were lawyers include John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Q. Adams, Martin Van Buren, John Tyler, James Polk, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama.
The 10 presidents were teachers include John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Millard Fillmore, James Garfield, Chester Alan Arthur, Grover Cleveland, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Barack Obama.
The six presidents were businessmen include Donald Trump, Warren Harding, Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush.
The presidents were US representatives include James Madison, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford.
The presidents served as state governors include James Monroe, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Andrew Johnson, Rutherford B. Hayes, Grover Cleveland, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, William Howard Taft served as a territorial governor, and Andrew Jackson as a military governor.
