He was a career military officer, serving for 36 years
waht was obama career befoer coming the president.........................
No- but he was a career soldier, congressman and governor
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Senator.
Andrew Johnson
Dwight Eisenhower was the one.
Naval officer
Texas
Herbert Hoover was a mining engineer and very successful at it.
it was because he was a senator in Illinois and then ran for president
Andrew Jackson's last position before becoming U.S. President was U.S. Senator from Tennessee.
Postmaster and surveyer