Postmaster and surveyer
He lived in Illinois.
John Adams
Andrew Johnson
Senator.
Dwight Eisenhower was the one.
Naval officer
Texas
it was because he was a senator in Illinois and then ran for president
Herbert Hoover was a mining engineer and very successful at it.
Well, honey, Abraham Lincoln always wanted to be a lawyer. He was a smart cookie and had a way with words, so lawyering suited him just fine. And we all know how that turned out - he became the 16th President of the United States. Not too shabby for a guy with a dream and a law degree.
Andrew Jackson's last position before becoming U.S. President was U.S. Senator from Tennessee.
President Andrew Jackson put a tariff on imports coming into those states.