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