There were 25 US presidents who never served in the Senate.
Two
Via election. He ran and people voted for "him".
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Two presidents held public office in Illinois and lived there when they were elected President and they are Lincoln and Obama. Reagan was born in Illinois but had his career in California. Grant was living in Illinois when he left to fight in the Civil War but he never ran for office in Illinois and was not living there when he ran for President although he may have still owned a house in Illinois .
No president is from Minnesota. Humphrey and Mondale ran unsuccessfully .
Herbert Hoover led the Department of Commerce under presidents Harding and Coolidge, before he ran for president.
Presidents who ran for reelection and lost after the year 1900 were William H. Taft (1912), Herbert Hoover (1932), Jimmy Carter (1980), and George Bush Sr. (1992). Gerald R. Ford ran and lost in 1976, but he was never technically elected in the first place.
The only U.S. president who was never elected as president or vice president is Gerald Ford. He was a Congressman who was appointed to office. He ran for a second term, but lost to Jimmy Carter.
Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt ran. FDR won. The election was in '32, not '33.
Never.