Presidents who did not hold elected office before they were President are Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Herbert Hoover and Dwight Eisenhower.
He was a never a US senator. However, he was governor of New York and NY state senator before he was elected president.
No U. S. President was elected before 1789.
All presidents have been elected to some government office, but Gerald Ford was the only one who was never elected as vice president or president. He did serve as a congressman, but was appointed, not elected, as vice president by Richard Nixon and took office after Nixon's resign without election.
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
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John F. Kennedy was a naval officer,author,congressman and senator before being elected as president.
Harding was a US Senator from Ohio and the Lieutenant Governor of Ohio before he was elected President.
That was President Carter.
He was the first elected President, several men held the office of President before him but none of them were elected.