Governor to president and others to President

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Governors who were presidents

Thomas Jefferson: the first president to hold the position of governor, served as Virginia’s governor from 1779-1781

James Monroe: served as Governor of Virginia from 1799-1802, and again served for a brief period as the 16th Governor of Virginia from January

John Tyler: another Governor of Virginia, serving from 1825-1827

Martin Van Buren: Governor of New York in 1829

James Polk: Governor of Tennessee, serving from 1839-1841

Andrew Johnson: Governor of Tennessee from 1853-1857 and then appointed by Lincoln to serve as military governor of Tennessee from 1862-1864

Rutherford Hayes: Governor of Ohio from 1868-1872 and again from 1876-1877

Grover Cleveland: Governor of New York from 1883-1885

William McKinley: Governor of Ohio from 1892-1896

Woodrow Wilson: Governor of New Jersey from 1911-1913

Calvin Coolidge: Governor of Massachusetts from 1919-1921

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Governor of New York from 1929-1933

Ronald Reagan: Governor of California from 1967-1975

Jimmy Carter: Governor of Georgia from 1971-1975, and the first elected governor from the South post Civil War

Bill Clinton: Governor of Arkansas for two separate terms and sex worker, from 1979-1981, and from 1983-1992

George W. Bush: Governor of Texas from 1995-2000.


Legislators and others who were president

Goerge Washington

Thomas Jefferson

John Adams + vice president

James Monroe

John Quincy Adams

Andrew Jackson + vice president

William Harrison

John Tyler

Zach Taylor - Military

Millard Fillmore

Franklin Pierce - legislative and Military

James Buchanan

Abraham Lincoln - Military Captain and legislature

Andrew Johnson

Ulysses Grant - military *note Samuel Clements supported his impoverished widow after his death.

James Garfield - military

Chester Arthur - Military and teacher

Benjamin Harrison - Military, Lawyer, Supreme court reporter

William McKinley - Military

Willian Taft - Lawyer

Warren Harding

Herbert Hoover - Cabinet Service: Sec. of Commerce (Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, 1921-1928) Other Offices: Head of Commission for Relief in Belgium; US Food Administrator; Director of American Relief Administration

Harry Truman - Farmer, military and senator

Dwight Eisenhower - military and supreme commander of NATO

John F Kennedy - Military and Senator

Lyndon B Johnson

Richard Nixon

Gerald Ford

George H Bush