More of them were lawyers before the got into government.
JFK graduated from college, went into the navy, wrote for a newspaper , was elected to Congress and finally served in the US Senate before he ran for president.
Commanding General of the United States Army
Before being elected president, Ronald Reagan was a Hollywood actor.
No U. S. President was elected before 1789.
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.
Senator.
He was a lawyer