This question is much too vague, and doesn't specify which president.
If speaking of the current president Barack Obama, he was a senator from Illinois before he became President.
The American President Roland Regan was an actor before going into politics
Ronald Regan.
Ronald Reagan.
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It became bigger and better then eventually when away because Texas joined the US.
nelson Mandela was jailed for 27 years prior to his release and becoming elected as president of south Africa
Badruddin Tyabji became the President in 1887 INC Session - MadrasList of other muslim Presidents of INC:Rahimtulla M. Sayani became President in 1896 INC Session - CalcuttaNawab Syed Muhammad Bahadur became President in 1913 INC Session - KarachiSyed Hasan Imam became President in 1918 INC Special Session - BombayHakim Ajmal Khan became President in 1921 INC Session - AhamedabadMaulana Mohammad Ali became President in 1923 INC Session - Cocanada (now Kakinada)Maulana Abul Kalam Azad became President in 1923 INC Special Session - DelhiDr.Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari became President in 1927 INC Session - MadrasMaulana Abul Kalam Azad again become President of The Indian National Congress in 1940 - INC Session - Ramgarh and he was the President of Indian National Congress until 1946, he was the only person who served as president of INC for THE LONGEST PERIOD (7 years) before Independence.
There were no blacks that had important leadership roles in the early US.
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Many different Presidents had done their own things before they became President. Please specify the president. If speaking of the current US President Barack Obama, he was a senator from Illinois before he became the President. If speaking of Nelson Mandela from South Africa, he was a political prisoner in jail before he became the President. If speaking of Paul Biya in Cameroon, he was the Prime Minister before he became the President.
No Obama was the first black president.
Barack Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review journal before becoming president.
In the US Senate.
He was a lawyer before he became President of the US.
No, he built it well before he became president.
He was a US Senator from Ohio before he ran for President.
He was in the Continental Congress but not the US Congress. The US Congress did not exist before Adams became Vice-President under Washington.
Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer who became a state legislator, then a Congressman before he became President.
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No, Bill Clinton became rich after he was president.