The President of the New Jersey Senate is Richard Codey (D) who once served as both the Governor and the President of the Senate.
Former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was elected to the Arizona State legislature in 1969, and served as a State Senator from 1969-1975; she was the Arizona Senate Majority Leader and Senate Republican Leader from 1973-1975.
Gerald Ford is the only person to have served as both vice president and president without ever being elected to either office.
No. Gerald R. Ford is the only American to have served as Vice-President and President without being elected to either office.
President George W. Bush is the US president that was twice elected the governor of Texas. He served as governor from January 17, 1995 to December 21, 2000.
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.
Andrew Johnson, US Senate from Tennessee in 1875.
Garfield was elected to nine terms as a US Congressman . He was elected to the Senate the year he was elected President and so never served in the Senate. He was also a state Senator in Ohio.
Hillary Clinton, the wife of former US President Bill Clinton, was elected to the Senate. She served as a senator from New York from 2001 to 2009.
John Q. Adams was a Congressman after he was president and Andrew Johnson was elected to the Senate.
No, Joe Biden was not elected in 1973. He was first elected to the U.S. Senate from Delaware in 1972 and took office in January 1973. Biden served in the Senate until he became Vice President in 2009 and was later elected President in 2020.
President Obama served in the Illinois State Senate, beginning in 1996; he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004, and then was elected president in 2008. Thus, he has at least sixteen years of political experience.
Barack Obama served as a state senator in Illinois from 1997 to 2004. He then ran for and was elected U.S. Senator. He served until 2008, at which time he resigned to run for President. Thus, in total, he was a senator (state and federal) for nearly twelve years.
As of August 1, 2014, Harry Reid was the Senate Majority Leader. Senate majority leaders are elected by the largest party in the American Senate. They serve as spokespersons for their party and they manage and schedule the legislative business that occurs in the Senate.
John McCain was elected to the US Senate in 1986 and has served continuously since.
Barack Obama was first elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996. He was re-elected several times. Then, in 2004, he was elected a U.S. Senator. So, he served about twelve years total in the state and the U.S. senate, before being elected president in 2008.
No, you are thinking of Barack Obama, who served in the Illinois state senate, and then became a U.S. senator, before becoming president.