The President of the United States is known as the most powerful office in the world. With global reach and influence, the President has the ambition and training to lead the free world from the White House Oval Office. The POTUS is expected to be a diplomat, philosopher, peacemaker, orator, administrator, and politician.
However, before they became the President, these men were doing something else. Do you know what they were before they became President?
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Who was the the only President to never hold public office before becoming President?
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Harry S Truman -
Donald Trump
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Benjamin Harrison
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William Howard Taft
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Who was the only president in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office?
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Ronald Reagan
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Grover Cleveland
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Jimmy Carter was the Governor of Georgia prior to becoming President. What other famous job did he have?
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Wheat farmer
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Peanut farmer
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Cattle rancher
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Beekeeper
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He was a former naval officer and the Vice President from 1953 to 1961.
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John F. Kennedy
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George H. W. Bush
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Ronald Reagan
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Richard Nixon
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Thomas Jefferson is a planter, land surveyor, lawyer and a Founding Father. What other job is he famous for?
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Mechanic
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Engineer
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Architect
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Realtor
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Question of
This former California Governor was also a former President of the Screen Actors Guild.
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Harry S Truman
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Gerald Ford
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Herbert Hoover
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Ronald Reagan
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He was the Governor of a United States territory from 1901 to 1904.
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William Howard Taft
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Warren G. Harding
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Woodrow Wilson
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Calvin Coolidge
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He worked as a mining engineer in Australia and China and became a successful businessman afterwards.
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Harry S Truman
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Calvin Coolidge
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Herbert Hoover
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He was the Commanding General of the United States Army during the Civil War.
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Andrew Jackson
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Abraham Lincoln
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James Buchanan
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Besides being a general in the Union Army, he was also a teacher and an ordained minister.
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James A. Garfield
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Abraham Lincoln
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Chester A. Arthur
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He was the grandson of a former President, and served in the Union Army during the Civil War. After the Civil War, he was elected as a court reporter.
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Chester Arthur
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William McKinley
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Benjamin Harrison
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Woodrow Wilson was a state governor and President from 1913 to 1921. He was also the President of which University?
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Cornell
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Princeton
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Harvard
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Yale
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Question of
Which well-dressed President was a former owner of haberdashery?
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Harry S Truman
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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John F. Kennedy
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Which President had once commanded a torpedo boat and later wrote a book about his time in the Navy?
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Richard Nixon
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Gerald Ford
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Jimmy Carter
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John F. Kennedy
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Which President was a Naval Aviator and former Director of Central Intelligence?
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George H.W. Bush
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William Jefferson Clinton
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Donald Trump
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George W. Bush
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