Woodrow Wilson was the NJ governor who became president.
Those offices are completely separate, so yes, they are elected separately. The vice-president is elected with the president, while a lieutenant governor is elected with a governor.
George W. Bush was Governor of Texas at the time he was elected President in 2000.
Answer: Governors of the states are elected by the people of the appropriate state. If a governor should die while in office the lieutenant governor may assume the role. Each state has its procedures.
In the United States, the three elected officials in the executive branch who serve four-year terms are the President, the Vice President, and the Governor of a state. The President and Vice President are elected nationally, while each state elects its own Governor. These officials play crucial roles in implementing laws, managing state and national policies, and overseeing the executive functions of government.
Ohio Republican, Warren G. Harding, was the first president elected while still serving a term in the United States Senate. Harding, a conservative Republican, signed the first child welfare bill into law, and attempted to get an anti-lynching bill passed to protect African-Americans.
A president is generally the leader of an entire country. A governor is generally the leader of a state. Thus, while a governor has power at the local level, the president has power at the national level.President is a federal job, making him in control of all 50 states as a whole. Governor is a state thing, he is voted for by only his state, and has no affect on states other then his own.
Thomas Riley Marshall from Indiana was serving as vice-president under Wilson in 1920 when Harding ran for president. Harding's running mate was Calvin Coolidge and both were elected.
President Obama was47 when he was elected president
James Buchanan was a bachelor while President of the United States, for one term. He was President from 1856-1860. The southern states began to secede from the Union, once President Lincoln had been elected, in 1860, and began serving as President in 1861.
Robert Kennedy was never elected president. He was killed while campaigning for president in California by Sirhan Sirhan.
It was President Washington.
Someone wrote Jimmy Carter. That's definitely not right. LOL. It is Sonny Perdue, elected in 2002 and re-elected in 2006. Interestingly, Perdue is a former Democrat. He changed parties while serving in the state Legislature in the 1990s.