14 years
He was general of the United States Army.
he got elected president when he ran for it. He was also a vice president before he was the president of united states.
George Washington
Andrew Jackson was elected as the seventh president of the United States in 1829. Texas was annexed into the Union in 1845, so before.
Commanding General of the United States Army
Ronald Reagan was famous as a movie star before being elected Governor of California in 1966 then President of the United States in 1980.
Yes and no. In law school, he was elected president of Harvard's famous legal journal, the Harvard Law Review. But he was never a president of the United States until he was elected for the first time in 2008. However, since he was re-elected in 2012, we could say he was president before, during his first term in office.
Dr.Rajendra Prasad was the first President of Independent India from 26 Jan 1950 to 13 May 1962.
Before being elected as President of the United States, Barack Obama was the junior Senator for the State of Illinois.
Before John F Kennedy became President of the United States, he was a United States Senator and a Congressman. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1946, and then elected to the U.S. Senate (beating Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.) in 1952.
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Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as President after Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, so he technically was not elected due to those circumstances. He served as Kennedy's Vice President before his assassination, which was was sworn in.He was the 36th President of the United States.