Have any former US Presidents served in the senate?

Answer 1

The short answer to the title of this article is: 16 presidents were senators at one time. They were: 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.

Answer 2

John F. Kennedy, Barack H. Obama, and Warren G. Harding were the only sitting Senators to be elected to the Presidency. Other Presidents have served in the Senate were elected to the Vice-Presidency only to later become President (Harry S. Truman is one example).

Answer 3

Several former US Senators have later become President. They are J. Quincy Adams, Jackson, VanBuren ,Tyler, Pierce, Buchanan, Benjamin Harrison, Harding, Truman, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon and Obama. Andrew Johnson was elected to the Senate after he was President.

Answer 4

16 presidents were senators at one time. They were: 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.

Seventeen State Governors have subsequently become President :

1. Thomas Jefferson (Gov. of Virginia from 1779 until 1781)
2. James Monroe (Gov. of Virginia from 1799 until 1802 and in 1811)
3. Martin Van Buren (Gov. of New York in 1829)
4. John Tyler (Gov. of Virginia from 1825 until 1827)
5. James K. Polk (Gov. of Tennessee from 1839 until 1841)
6. Andrew Johnson (Gov. of Tennessee from 1853 until 1857.
7. Rutherford B. Hayes (Gov. of Ohio from 1868 until 1872 and 1876 until 1877)
8. Grover Cleveland (Gov. of New York from 1883 until 1884)
9. William McKinley (Gov. of Ohio from 1892 until 1896)
10. Theodore Roosevelt (Gov. of New York from 1899 until 1900)
11. Woodrow Wilson (Gov. of New Jersey from 1911 until 1913)
12. Calvin Coolidge (Gov. of Massachusetts from 1919 until 1921)
13. Franklin D. Roosevelt (Gov. of New York from 1929 until 1932)
14. Jimmy Carter (Gov. of Georgia from 1971 until 1975)
15. Ronald Reagan (Gov. of California from 1967 until 1975)
16. Bill Clinton (Gov. of Arkansas from 1979 until 1981 and 1983 until 1992)
17. George W. Bush (Gov. of Texas from 1995 until 2000)

Three others were never state governors but were governors of territories.

Andrew Jackson was territorial governor of Florida ,

W.H. Harrison was territorial governor of Indiana ,

William Howard Taft was governor of the the Philippines when it became a US territory following the Spanish-American War.

Answer 5

Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, William Harrison, Tyler, Pierce, Buchanan. Andrew Johnson, Benjamin Harrison, Harding, Truman, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Nixon and Obama

Answer 6

All I know is that John F. Kennedy was the last US Senator to be elected as President.

Answer 7

That was James Monroe of Virginia. He was a U.S. Senator from 1790 to 1794.

Answer 8

Andrew Johnson.

Answer 9

Andrew Johnson is the only one.