Before becoming president, Jimmy Carter represented his home state of Georgia. He was a member of the Georgia Senate from 1963 until 1967, and held office as the Governor of Georgia from 1971 until 1975.
Johnson was a tailor before he entered politics. As a politician he was an alderman, a mayor, TN state representative, a TN state senator, governor of TN, a US Congressman, a US senator and vice-president before becoming president.
Illinois
He was previously a senator from Illinois.
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He was the governor of California before he ran for president.
Barack Obama lived in Illinois before becoming president. He first became a senator of Illinois before president of the US.
Before becoming president, Calvin Coolidge served as the Vice President of the United States under Warren G. Harding. Prior to that, he was the Governor of Massachusetts.
Jefferson Davis represented Mississippi in the U.S. Congress before he was elected President of the Confederacy.
Before becoming president, John Quincy Adams served as the United States Secretary of State under President James Monroe from 1817 to 1825.
He ran his plantation and served as a major general in the years just before he became president. Before that he was a lawyer and prosecuting attorney and justice on the state supreme court.
Before becoming president, Barack Obama lived in Chicago, Illinois.