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List of U.S. Presidents by previous occupation
This is a list of the occupations of Presidents before they entered politics. Often previous career experience is minimal, however many presidents did spend their younger years in college and the military.
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| 43 | George W. Bush | Businessman
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| 42 | Bill Clinton | Lawyer, Law lecturer
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| 41 | George H. W. Bush | Businessman (Oil)
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| 40 | Ronald Reagan | Actor & broadcaster, President of the Screen Actors Guild
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| 39 | Jimmy Carter | Naval submariner (Nuclear specialist), Businessman (peanut farmer)
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| 38 | Gerald Ford | Navy
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| 37 | Richard Nixon | Navy, Lawyer
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| 36 | Lyndon Johnson | Navy, High school teacher
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| 35 | John F. Kennedy | Navy, Congressman, Writer
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| 34 | Dwight Eisenhower | Soldier, Supreme Allied Commander,
Army Chief of Staff, president of Columbia University
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| 33 | Harry S. Truman | Farmer, Men's clothing retailer
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| 32 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Lawyer
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| 31 | Herbert Hoover | Engineer
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| 30 | Calvin Coolidge | Lawyer
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| 29 | Warren G. Harding | Newspaper editor
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| 28 | Woodrow Wilson | Lawyer, professor, president of Princeton University
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| 27 | William Howard Taft | Lawyer, judge, dean of law school at the University of Cincinnati
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| 26 | Theodore Roosevelt | Rancher, soldier
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| 25 | William McKinley | Soldier, lawyer
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| 23 | Benjamin Harrison | Lawyer, soldier, journalist
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| 22,24 | Grover Cleveland | Sheriff, lawyer
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| 21 | Chester A. Arthur | School teacher, lawyer, collector of tarriffs
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| 20 | James Garfield | School teacher, soldier
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| 19 | Rutherford B. Hayes | Lawyer, soldier
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| 18 | Ulysses S. Grant | Soldier
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| 17 | Andrew Johnson | Tailor
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| 16 | Abraham Lincoln | Lawyer
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| 3 | Thomas Jefferson | Writer, inventor, lawyer, architect
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| 2 | John Adams | Lawyer
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| 1 | George Washington | Surveyor, Farmer/plantation owner, General of United Army of the Colonies
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Presidential trivia lists
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