Statistics for U.S. Presidents by Prior Government Offices

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Prior Offices	Answer	% Correct
Judge in Jackson County, Missouri; U.S. Senator from Missouri; Vice President	Harry S. Truman	88%
Member of the U.S. House from TN-9, TN-6 and Chair of the Ways and Means Committee and Speaker of the House; Governor of Tennessee	James K. Polk	88%
Delegate to the Continental Congress from Massachusetts; Envoy to France; Minister to the Netherlands; Minister to the United Kingdom; Vice President	John Adams	88%
Member of the U.S. House from TX-10; U.S. Senator from Texas and Senate Majority Leader; Vice President	Lyndon B. Johnson	88%
Member of the Illinois House from Sangamon County; Member of the U.S. House from IL-7	Abraham Lincoln	82%
Attorney General of Arkansas; Governor of Arkansas	Bill Clinton	82%
Member of the New York Senate; Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Governor of New York	Franklin D. Roosevelt	82%
Member of the U.S. House from CA-12; U.S. Senator from California; Vice President	Richard Nixon	82%
Commanding General of the U.S. Army and Acting Secretary of War	Ulysses S. Grant	82%
Member of the Ohio Senate; Lieutenant Governor of Ohio; U.S. Senator from Ohio	Warren G. Harding	82%
Major General in the United States Army	Zachary Taylor	82%
Member of the U.S. House from TN-at-large; Justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court; Territorial Governor of Florida; U.S. Senator from Tennessee	Andrew Jackson	76%
Governor of Texas	George W. Bush	76%
Director of the U.S. Food Administration; Secretary of Commerce	Herbert Hoover	76%
Delegate to the Continental Congress from Virginia; Governor of Virginia; Delegate to the Congress of the Confederation; Minister Plenipotentiary; Minister to France; Secretary of State; Vice President	Thomas Jefferson	76%
Member of the U.S. House from OH-17, OH-16, OH-18, OH-20 and Chair of the Ways and Means Committee; Governor of Ohio	William McKinley	76%
President of Princeton University; Governor of New Jersey	Woodrow Wilson	76%
U.S. Senator from Indiana	Benjamin Harrison	71%
Member of the Massachusetts House; Mayor of Northampton; Member of the Massachusetts Senate and President of the Massachusetts Senate; Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts; Governor of Massachusetts; Vice President	Calvin Coolidge	71%
Collector of the Port of New York; Vice President	Chester A. Arthur	71%
Member of the U.S. House from TX-7; Ambassador to the United Nations; Chair of the RNC; Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office to China; Director of the CIA; Vice President	George H. W. Bush	71%
Member of the Pennsylvania House from Lancaster County; Member of the U.S. House from PA-3, PA-4 and Chair of the Judiciary Committee; Minister to Russia; Senator from Pennsylvania; Secretary of State; Minister to the United Kingdom	James Buchanan	71%
Delegate to the Congress of the Confederation from Virginia; Member of the U.S. House from VA-5, VA-15; Secretary of State	James Madison	71%
Member of the U.S. House from MA-11; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts	John F. Kennedy	71%
Member of the Massachusetts Senate; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts; Secretary of State	John Quincy Adams	71%
Surrogate of Columbia County; Member of the New York Senate; Attorney General of New York; U.S. Senator from New York; Governor of New York; Secretary of State; Minister to the United Kingdom; Vice President	Martin Van Buren	71%
Comptroller of New York; Member of the U.S. House from NY-32 and Chair of the Ways and Means Committee; Vice President	Millard Fillmore	71%
U.S. Solicitor General; Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit; Governor-General of the Philippines; Provisional Governor of Cuba; Secretary of War;	William Howard Taft	71%
Member of the Illinois Senate; U.S. Senator from Illinois	Barack Obama	65%
None	Donald Trump	65%
Military Governor of the U.S. Occupation Zone in Germany; Army Chief of Staff; Supreme Allied Commander Europe; President of Columbia University	Dwight D. Eisenhower	65%
Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from Fairfax County, Frederick County; Delegate to the Continental Congress from Virginia; Commander in Chief of the Continental Army	George Washington	65%
Sheriff of Erie County; Mayor of Buffalo; Governor of New York	Grover Cleveland	65%
Delegate to the Congress of the Confederation from Virginia; United States Senator from Virginia; Minister to France; Minister to the United Kingdom; Governor of Virginia; Secretary of State; Secretary of War	James Monroe	65%
Governor of California	Ronald Reagan	65%
Member of the U.S. House from OH-2; Governor of Ohio	Rutherford B. Hayes	65%
Mayor of Greeneville; Member of the U.S. House from TN-1; Governor of Tennessee; U.S. Senator from Tennessee; Military Governor of Tennessee; Vice President	Andrew Johnson	59%
Member of the U.S. House from MI-5 and House Minority Leader; Vice President	Gerald Ford	59%
Member of the Georgia State Senate; Governor of Georgia	Jimmy Carter	59%
Member of the U.S. House from VA-23; Governor of Virginia; U.S. Senator from Virginia and President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate; Vice President	John Tyler	59%
Town Meeting Moderator for Hillsborough; Member of the New Hampshire House from Hillsborough and speaker of the New Hampshire House; Member of the U.S. House from NH-at-large; Senator from New Hampshire	Franklin Pierce	53%
Member of the New York State Assembly; President of the New York City Board of Police Commissioners; Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Governor of New York; Vice President	Theodore Roosevelt	53%
Secretary of the Northwest Territory; Delegate to the U.S. House from the Northwest Territory; Governor of the Indiana Territory; Member of the U.S. House from OH-1; Member of the Ohio Senate; U.S. Senator from Ohio; Minister to Gran Colombia	William Henry Harrison	53%
Member of the U.S. House from OH-19	James Garfield	47%