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 same type it was before, the count of votes for an elected official does not change the form of government.
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.
More of them were lawyers before the got into government.
ANSWER Before his election to President he was Lieutenant General and from March 1864 Chief of Staff of the Union Army.
This question was asked before the 2008 election. On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama did in fact get elected America's 44th president. He was re-elected on November 6, 2012.
At the time of his election John F. Kennedy was a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts.
George W. Bush, born in Connecticut, was governor of Texas before he took the White House in 2000, and was then elected president in the 2004 election.
Fillmore was elected as vice-president and began president because President Taylor died in office. In those days, there was no way to replace the vice-president before the next election.
Thabo Mbeki, was the previously elected president, but was dismissed by the ANC and replaced with Kgalema Motlanthe as an interim president before the election of Jacob Zuma in April 2009
He lost 8 prior elections, before winning the Presidential election in 1860. He never lost any Presidential election, and he ran twice, and was elected twice, as President.
No,unless he is elected to be President. The terms of the vice president and the president both expire at the same time. A new election is held in November of the year before the President's term expires in January.