Yes you can lyndon B Johnson did it even after being impeached. And yes Bill Clinton could do it too
He was serving as a senator from Massachusetts.
President Obama was first elected as a state senator in Illinois in 1996. After serving three terms, he was elected as a U.S. senator in 2004. He then ran for president in 2008 and won, and ran again in 2012 and was re-elected.
He ran a newspaper and then was elected US Senator from Ohio before he was elected president.
He was a never a US senator. However, he was governor of New York and NY state senator before he was elected president.
Richard Nixon was not President in 1950. He was a US Representative serving on the House Un-American Activities Committee. Later that year, he was elected US Senator
No, he was a Representative for 25 years but never a Senator. As Vice-President, he was President of the Senate but never an elected Senator.
No, Obama was a Senator before being elected president
Presidents are not appointed- they are elected. A senator or representative can run for president , but if elected president , he must resign any previous office before he takes office as president.
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No. He was a Representative and then a Senator before being elected President.
Barack Obama. Before him it was Richard M Nixon.
The president pro tempore is elected by the Senate and is customarily the longest serving senator in the majority party.Originally, the president pro tempore was appointed on an intermittent basis when the vice president was not present to preside over the Senate.