Before he was President, Pierce served in the New Hampshire legislature , as a US Congressman from NH and as a US Senator.
Yes, he was. He represented New Hampshire in the US Senate from 1837 to 1842.
Senator Shaheen comes up for reelection in 2014, and Senator Ayotte comes up for reelection in 2016.
The 14th U. S. President was Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire.Franklin Pierce from New Hampshire was the 14th US President.
He was a never a US senator. However, he was governor of New York and NY state senator before he was elected president.
He was the second, fourth, eighth and tenth Governor, a US Senator from New Hampshire a member of the Continental Congress and an early supporter of the American Revolution.
Andrew Johnson was a US Senator from TN and went on to be US president. Jefferson Davis was Us Senator from Miss. and went on to be Confederate president.
the one, the only, Senator John McCain
When it became a state in 1788 there was no US President.
Yes. probably. His opponent was Winfield Scott, an old Mexican War general. Pierce had been a US Senator and had a good reputation as an honest lawyer in New Hampshire.
A total of 9 US Presidents were both former US Representatives as well as former Senators. Three were elected Vice Presidents who succeeded to the Presidency, but only one (LBJ) was also elected President. Another (Andrew Johnson, became a Senator afterbeing President.James Garfield (20th President) was simultaneously a US representative, Senator-elect, and President-elect, having being appointed to a vacant US Senate seat in Ohio that he never occupied.Representatives/Senators who became PresidentAndrew Jackson - 7th President (representative and later senator from Tennessee)William H. Harrison - 9th President (representative and senator from Ohio)John Tyler * 10th President (representative and senator from Virginia who was elected Vice President and served 47 months after succeeding William Henry Harrison)Franklin Pierce - 14th President (representative and senator from New Hampshire)James Buchanan - 15th President (representative and senator from Pennsylvania)Andrew Johnson * 17th President (representative from Tennessee, elected to Senate after leaving the White House)John F. Kennedy - 35th President (representative and senator from Massachusetts)Lyndon B Johnson - 36th President (representative and senator from Texas)Richard Nixon - 37th President (representative and senator from California)
Barack Obama decided to run for president after becoming a US senator. He was elected as a US senator from Illinois in 2004 and announced his candidacy for president in February 2007.