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Lyndon B. Johnson was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1937. At that time, Franklin D. Roosevelt was serving as the President of the United States.
John Quincy Adams served one term as President then was elected to the House of Representatives in 1830. Andrew Johnson served as President, survived his impeachment and then served in the Senate beginning in 1874.
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Johnson (1801-1875) of Tennessee. Served as vice-president from March-April 1865. Johnson succeeded to the presidency on the assassination of President Lincoln. Johnson would be the first president to be impeached by Congress(S.Menzel)
38 of the 43 US Presidents were elected to the position; the other five (Tyler, Fillmore, A. Johnson, Arthur and Ford ) moved up to fill a vacancy after the president died or resigned and were never actuallly elected to be President. (Four others first took the office by moving up from vice-president, but were then elected to a term of their own.)
Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Shirley Chisholm was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives.
The first Female president in Africa is Madam Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf President of the Republic of Liberia
Liberia elected Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as its first female president in 2005. She served as the president of Liberia for two terms, from 2006 to 2018.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the 24th President of the Republic of Liberia and the first elected female Head of State in Africa.
John Quincy Adams was the only ex-president to serve in House of Representative. Andrew Johnson was elected to the US Senate after he was President. John Tyler served in the Confederate Congress.