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U.S. Presidents Who Were Governors, Senators or Neither

GOVERNORS (13)

SENATORS (11)

BOTH (5)

NEITHER (14)

Thomas Jefferson (VA)

James Polk (TN)

Rutherford Hayes (OH)

Grover Cleveland (NY)

William McKinley (OH)

Theodore Roosevelt (NY)

Woodrow Wilson (NJ)

Calvin Coolidge (MA)

Franklin D. Roosevelt (NY)

Jimmy Carter (GA)

Ronald Reagan (CA)

Bill Clinton (AR)

George W. Bush (TX)

John Quincy Adams (MA)

Andrew Jackson (TN)

Franklin Pierce (NH)

James Buchanan (PA)

Benjamin Harrison (IN)

Warren Harding (OH)

Harry Truman (MO)

John F. Kennedy (MA)

Lyndon B. Johnson (TX)

Richard Nixon (CA)

Barack Obama (IL)

James Monroe (VA)

Martin Van Buren (NY)

William Henry Harrison (IN Territory; OH)

John Tyler (VA)

Andrew Johnson (TN)

George Washington

John Adams

James Madison

Zachary Taylor

Millard Fillmore

Abraham Lincoln

Ulysses Grant

James Garfield

Chester Arthur

William Howard Taft

Herbert Hoover

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Gerald Ford

George H.W. Bush

SOURCE: Truth-O-Meter article, "Ted Cruz says half of presidents were previously governors, half were senators," PolitiFact Texas, April 27, 2015