Presidents Who Were Governors

Can you name all 17 presidents that were governors before they were elected?

One president counts as two answers

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Pres. No	State they Governed	Term(s) as Governor	Answer
3	Virginia	1779-1781	Thomas Jefferson
5	Virginia	1799-1802	James Monroe
8	New York	1829	Martin Van Buren
10	Virginia	1825-1826	John Tyler
11	Tennessee	1839-1841	James K. Polk
17	Tennessee	1853-1857	Andrew Johnson
19	Ohio	1868-1872; 1876-1877	Rutherford B. Hayes
22	New York	1883-1884	Grover Cleveland
24	New York	1883-1884	Grover Cleveland

Pres. No	State they Governed	Term(s) as Governor	Answer
25	Ohio	1892-1896	William McKinley
26	New York	1899-1900	Theodore Roosevelt
28	New Jersey	1911-1913	Woodrow Wilson
30	Massachusetts	1919-1920	Calvin Coolidge
32	New York	1929-1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt
39	Georgia	1971-1974	Jimmy Carter
40	California	1967-1974	Ronald Reagan
42	Arkansas	1979-1980;1983-1993	Bill Clinton
43	Texas	1995-2000	George W. Bush

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