Johnson, Filmore, Tyler, Arthur
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.
Presidents who did not hold elected office before they were President are Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Herbert Hoover and Dwight Eisenhower.
Both were vice-presidents who became president when the elected president died in office.
In the US, Presidents are elected, not appointed. President Obama was elected in November 2008, and he took office in January 2009.
The president who was not inaugurated and only took an oath on his residence was President John Tyler. This was after the death of President William Henry Harrison a month after his inauguration.
All presidents have been elected to some government office, but Gerald Ford was the only one who was never elected as vice president or president. He did serve as a congressman, but was appointed, not elected, as vice president by Richard Nixon and took office after Nixon's resign without election.
The Vice President of the United States shares the President's term of office. The President is elected along with the Vice President to serve 4 years.
John Tyler.
There are several men who rose to the office of President of the US but were not elected to it. Gerald Ford is the only man who was not elected to either the office of President or Vice President though. Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson were all sworn in after the presidents they served under died.
The only U.S. president who was never elected as president or vice president is Gerald Ford. He was a Congressman who was appointed to office. He ran for a second term, but lost to Jimmy Carter.
he gets elected
The current president was elected in October 2004 and took office in March 1st, 2005. The President-elect was elected in November 2009 and will take office in March 1st, 2010.