Commanding General of the United States Army
Presidents who did not hold elected office before they were President are Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Herbert Hoover and Dwight Eisenhower.
Ulysses S. Grant
More of them were lawyers before the got into government.
There were no wars in the United States while Ulysses Simpson Grant was president.
Zachary Taylor (12th president) Ulysses S. Grant (18th president) Dwight D Eisenhower (34th president)
Ulysses S. Grant After Abraham Lincoln won in 1860 and 1864, Ulysses S. Grant won in 1868 and 1872. However, although never elected President, Andrew Johnson was U. S. President after Lincoln and before Grant (1865-1869).
Before being elected president, Ronald Reagan was a Hollywood actor.
Ulysses S Grant, Republican, who served from March 1869 to March 1877
He was a four-star General in charge of Union troops during the Civil War.
At the time of his election John F. Kennedy was a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts.
No U. S. President was elected before 1789.
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