Barack Obama, Senator from Illinois, was the last senator to be elected president in 2008.
I believe it was John Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson in 1961
He ran a newspaper and then was elected US Senator from Ohio before he was elected president.
He was a never a US senator. However, he was governor of New York and NY state senator before he was elected president.
No, he was a Representative for 25 years but never a Senator. As Vice-President, he was President of the Senate but never an elected Senator.
No, Obama was a Senator before being elected president
Presidents are not appointed- they are elected. A senator or representative can run for president , but if elected president , he must resign any previous office before he takes office as president.
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JFK.
Erica Mastromatto.
No. He was a Representative and then a Senator before being elected President.
President Obama was first elected as a state senator in Illinois in 1996. After serving three terms, he was elected as a U.S. senator in 2004. He then ran for president in 2008 and won, and ran again in 2012 and was re-elected.
He ran a newspaper and then was elected US Senator from Ohio before he was elected president.