US Presidents' Previous Political Offices

Identify the presidents by the the political offices they held prior to becoming president. Presidents can be used more than once. Some questions have multiple right answers. Note: Not all previous political offices are included for all US presidents.
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Vice President of the US in the 1800s
Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, John Tyler, Andrew Johnson and Chester A. Arthur
US Senator from Texas
Lyndon B. Johnson
US Senator from Illinois
Barack Obama
US Representative from New Hampshire
Franklin Pierce
US Senator from Tennessee
Andrew Jackson and Andrew Johnson
Amdassador to France
Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe
Governor of Georgia
Jimmy Carter
Governor-General of the Philippines
William H. Taft
US Representative from Michigan
Gerald Ford
US Representative from Illinois
Abraham Lincoln
US Representative from Texas
Lyndon B. Johnson and George H.W. Bush
US Senator from Virginia
James Monroe and John Tyler
President of the Constitutional Convention
George Washington
Governor of Arkansas
Bill Clinton
US Secretary of War
James Monroe and William H. Taft
Governor of Massachusetts
Calvin Coolidge
Governor of New York
Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt
Supreme Allied Commander
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Governor of Ohio
Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley
Major General during Mexican-American War
Zachary Taylor
US Representative from Tennessee
Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk and Andrew Johnson
President Pro Tempore of the US Senate
John Tyler
Vice President of the US in the 1900s
Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry S Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush
Ambassador to Colombia
William Henry Harrision
Governor of Tennessee
James K. Polk and Andrew Johnson
Mayor of Buffalo
Grover Cleveland
Governor of Virginia
Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe & John Tyler
US Representative from Massachusetts
John F. Kennedy
US Secretary of State
Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren and James Buchanan
US Senator from New Hampshire
Franklin Pierce
Commander in Chief of the Continental Army
George Washington
Governor of Texas
George W. Bush
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US Senator from Ohio
William Henry Harrison and Warren G. Harding
US Senator from California
Richard M. Nixon
US Representative from New York
Millard Fillmore
Delegate to the Congress of the Confederation
Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe
Comanding General of the US Army
Ulysses S. Grant
US Senator from New York
Martin Van Buren
Governor of California
Ronald Reagan
Ambassador to the UK
John Adams, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren and James Buchanan
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt
Vice President of the US in the 1700s
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
US Senator from Missouri
Harry S Truman
US Representative from Ohio
William Henry Harrison, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield and William McKinley
Collector of the Port of New York
Chester A. Arthur
Director of the CIA
George H.W. Bush
Governor of New Jersey
Woodrow Wilson
Illinois State Senator
Barack Obama
Governor of Cuba
William H. Taft
Author of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Ambassador to the Netherlands
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
US Representative from Virginia
James Madison and John Tyler
US House Minority Leader
Gerald Ford
Ambassador to Russia
John Quincy Adams and James Buchanan
Director of the US Food Administration
Herbert Hoover
Delegate to the First Continental Congress
George Washington and John Adams
US Senator from Massachusetts
John Quincy Adams and John F. Kennedy
US Senator from Indiana
Benjamin Harrison
Georgia State Senator
Jimmy Carter
Speaker of the US House of Representatives
James K. Polk
US Secretary of Commerce
Herbert Hoover
US Senator from Pennsylvania
James Buchanan
Governor of Indiana Territory
William Henry Harrison
US Representative from California
Richard M. Nixon
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