Post-Reconstruction Presidents who never won a statewide election and their experience: Ike: Winning World War II, Hoover: Secretary of Commerce, Overseeing the World War I European Relief, Taft: Solicitor General, U.S. Court of Appeals Justice, Governor-General of the Philippines, Provisional Governor of Cuba, Secretary of War, James Garfield: Congressman and Union Army General. (Chester Arthur was VP and NYS political hack but was not elected President on his own. His prior job as Collector of the Port of New York paid better than the Presidency.) And Ben Carson? He made a speech once.
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 23:55:46 +0000