Two. He served as George Washington's veep for his two terms as president, from 1789-1797. He won the presidential election in November 1796. He served only one term as president and was defeated by Thomas Jefferson in the 1800 election.
I count six -- Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Quincy Adams, VanBuren and Buchanan were Secretaries of State before being elected president.
John F. Kennedy was a naval officer,author,congressman and senator before being elected as president.
No, Obama was a Senator before being elected president
Harding was a US Senator from Ohio and the Lieutenant Governor of Ohio before he was elected President.
Five: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, Richard Nixon, and George H,W, Bush all served for one or two full terms as vice-president before being elected President. (Four others served partial terms as VP before being elected as President: Ted Roosevelt, Coolidge, Truman and L. B. Johnson. )
He was the 6th President of the United States of America but the first President to support prostitution.
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Before becoming president, Barack Obama was elected to the Illinois state senate in 1996, and he was then elected to serve as a U.S. Senator from Illinois: he won that election in 2004.
Points of Interest: President Adams regularly swam nude in the Potomac River. Anne Royall, the first American professional journalist, knew of Adams' 5 A.M. swims. After being refused interviews with the president time after time, she went to the river, gathered his clothes and sat on them until she had her interview. Before this, no female had interviewed a president. Adams was the first to be elected president without receiving either the most popular votes or the most votes of the electoral college. He was the first president married abroad.Adams was the first president to be photographed. Adams is the only president to be elected to the House after his presidency. One of his sons, George Washington Adams, died at the age of 28, an apparent suicide.
If you are asking what position he held before being elected president, he was elected a state senator in Illinois in 1996, and in 2004, he was elected to the U.S. Senate.
Before he was president, John Quincy was a lawer.
He was former President of the Screen Actors Guild, and Chairman of the Motion Picture Industry Council, then elected California Governor