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US Presidents by Highest Office

Guess the Highest Elected Office Held by Each President Before Taking Office
Some Presidents held multiple offices. This quiz will only show their highest office before their election. "None" is an option. Some may have come to an elected office through means other than election such as filling a vacant Vice Presidency, which will still count.
For Senators and Governors you must include, "of (their state)" and for Members of the House of Representatives it should be answered as, "US Representative from (their state)".
Does NOT include appointed offices such as cabinet secretaries, military offices, judicial offices or territorial governors
Speaker of the House is still a form of US Representative so is still outranked by a senatorial or executive office
Quiz by Stegosaurus1234
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Last updated: February 13, 2022
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President
Office
Joseph Biden
Vice President of the United States
Donald Trump
None
Barack Obama
Senator of Illinois
George W. Bush
Governor of Texas
Bill Clinton
Governor of Arkansas
George H.W. Bush
Vice President of the United States
Ronald Reagan
Governor of California
Jimmy Carter
Governor of Georgia
Gerald Ford
Vice President of the United States
Richard Nixon
Vice President of the United States
Lyndon Johnson
Vice President of the United States
John Kennedy
Senator of Massachusetts
Dwight Eisenhower
None
Harry Truman
Vice President of the United States
Franklin Roosevelt
Governor of New York
Herbert Hoover
None
Calvin Coolidge
Vice President of the United States
Warren Harding
Senator of Ohio
Woodrow Wilson
Governor of New Jersey
William Taft
None
Theodore Roosevelt
Vice President of the United States
William McKinley
Governor of Ohio
Grover Cleveland
Governor of New York
President
Office
Benjamin Harrison
Senator of Indiana
Chester Arthur
Vice President of the United States
James Garfield
US Representative from Ohio
Rutherford Hayes
Governor of Ohio
Ulysses Grant
None
Andrew Johnson
Vice President of the United States
Abraham Lincoln
US Representative from Illinois
James Buchanan
Senator of Pennsylvania
Franklin Pierce
Senator of New Hampshire
Millard Fillmore
Vice President of the United States
Zachary Taylor
None
James Polk
Governor of Tennessee
John Tyler
Vice President of the United States
William Harrison
Senator of Ohio
Martin Van Buren
Vice President of the United States
Andrew Jackson
Senator of Tennessee
John Quincy Adams
Senator of Massachusetts
James Monroe
Governor of Virginia
James Madison
US Representative from Virginia
Thomas Jefferson
Vice President of the United States
John Adams
Vice President of the United States
George Washington
None
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Level 89
Feb 13, 2022
Good quiz but a couple of thoughts here.

1) Gerald Ford was never elected as vice president. He was appointed to the position after Spiro Agnew resigned in the wake of the Watergate scandal. So according to the rules you've set for this quiz the answer for him should be US Representative from Michigan.

2) How about just vice president (or VP) as an answer? Having to type out "of the United States" is redundant and takes a lot of time.

3) Or just add more time if you want people to type everything out.

Otherwise great idea and well done!

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Level 36
Feb 13, 2022
Thank you. I took your advice, and Vice President is accepted as an answer. I've also made some clarifications to the instructions so that its clearer in Gerald Ford's case. I'm going to keep him as VP since it is an elected office even if he technically wasn't elected to it, but I've made it clear in the rules that that still counts. Thank you for the helpful and constructive criticism. I think it will make the quiz much better.