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An elected President, not yet inaugurated, is called the President-elect.
No U. S. President was elected before 1789.
The President & Vice-President are elected by the ballots cast by citizens called electors.
Before President Karzai, there was no elected president in Afghanistan, but they were called presidents of Afghanistan.Hamid Karzai was the first elected president of Afghanistan since fall of the Taliban.Ashraf Ghani replaced Karzai in 2014.
He ran a newspaper and then was elected US Senator from Ohio before he was elected president.
Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas before he was elected president.
They are elected by the people before the president.
No, Obama was a Senator before being elected president
Presidents who did not hold elected office before they were President are Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Herbert Hoover and Dwight Eisenhower.
John F. Kennedy was a naval officer,author,congressman and senator before being elected as president.
Harding was a US Senator from Ohio and the Lieutenant Governor of Ohio before he was elected President.
That was President Carter.