Juan Perón was first elected president of Argentina on February 24, 1946. He served until 1955, when he was overthrown in a military coup. Perón later returned to power and was re-elected in 1973, serving until his death in 1974.
Andrew Jackson
Richard Nixon failed to be elected President while he was Vice President, but later succeeded in being elected to this office 8 years later.
Certainly. Consider Ulysses S Grant, or of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Both were generals first, and later Presidents.
Juan Peron was an Argentinian military officer and President. He was a part of the military that carried out the 1943 coup against president Ramón Castillo. He later served as Minister of Labor and Vice President in the military junta led administration. He later severed ties with junta and ran for the president in 1946 elections. He was elected thrice as president and remained as president till 1955 when he was overthrown. He however, made a comeback and again won elections in 1973 and died in 1974 as an incumbent president.
George H. W. Bush was elected president of the United States in 1989. His son, George W. Bush, was later elected president in 2001.
Bill Clinton was elected as the governor of Arkansas.He was later elected twice as the President of the United States.Hillary Clinton was elected as a senator from New York.
Richard Millhouse Nixon
Coolidge was the vice-president of the United States when Warren Harding died. That is why Coolidge first became president. He later was elected to term of his own.
George Washington was not the Vice President; he was the President of the United States. His Vice President was John Adams, later 2nd President of the United States.
Gerald Ford was the only president of the United States who was not elected president or vice president. He took over as vice president after Spiro Agnew resigned and served as vice president under Richard Nixon. When Nixon later resigned, he became the president.
Gerald Ford holds that distinction. He became Vice-president after the elected Vice-president, Agnew, resigned and then became president when President Nixon resigned. He later ran for a term of his own but lost the election to Carter.