Thomas Jefferson for one (there may be others). Jefferson wrote his own epitaph before he died, and it is engraved on his tombstone: "Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia."
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Presidents have to do something so bad that no one will regret it. Presidents have to do something so bad that no one will regret it.
No ex-president has later become a Secretary of State- six have moved up from Secretary of State to president, however.
I count six -- Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Quincy Adams, VanBuren and Buchanan were Secretaries of State before being elected president.
To oversee the operation of executive departments.
Barack ObamaAll Presidents have been born in the US, but President Obama was born in Hawaii, which (being a chain of islands) is not part of the continental US.