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There have been 12 American generals who then became president. William H. Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Benjamin Harrison, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Andrew Jackson, Franklin Pierce and Andrew Johnson, and George Washington.

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