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*[[Alex Salmond]] - First Minister of Scotland, economist and banker
 
*[[Alex Salmond]] - First Minister of Scotland, economist and banker
 
*[[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] - professional bodybuilder based on steroid use, actor
 
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*[[Heath Shuler]] - former businessman and former National Football League quarterback
 
*[[Rick Snyder]] - President and COO of Gateway during the 1990s, later elected Governor of Michigan in 2010
 
*[[Rick Snyder]] - President and COO of Gateway during the 1990s, later elected Governor of Michigan in 2010
 
*[[Pierre Trudeau]], lawyer, professor at Université de Montréal.
 
*[[Pierre Trudeau]], lawyer, professor at Université de Montréal.

Revision as of 00:48, August 9, 2011

Significant politicians with a real former career

This is a list of significant politicians who had a real career (outside of politics):

No clear influence in politics

  • Michael Bloomberg - controls the market for stock quote machines used primarily in Wall Street institutions
  • Maria Cantwell - software company executive (Real Networks, who make RealPlayer)
  • Neville Chamberlain - Prime Minister of the UK, formerly accountant and businessman (metal trade). His chief claim to fame is how he trusted Hitler, who played Chamberlain for the fool that he was.
  • Stephane Dion Professor of Political Science at Université de Moncton and Université de Montreal.
  • Clint Eastwood - actor, film director
  • Mike Enzi - accountant
  • Bill Foster - physicist at the government-subsidized Fermilab
  • Al Franken - comedian (Saturday Night Live)
  • John Glenn - Marine Corps pilot, astronaut
  • Stephen Harper - attorney.
  • Denis Healey - UK Chancellor, soldier (beach-master at Anzio)
  • Herbert Hoover - geologist, mining engineer
  • Rush Holt - assistant director of the government-subsidized Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
  • Chris Huhne - journalist, including roles as business editor of The Independent and The Independent on Sunday*Michael Ignatieff Professor at the Kennedy School of Government, author, television host.
  • Glenda Jackson - double Oscar-winning actress who helped force out Tony Blair
  • John Key - before becoming New Zealander Prime Minister Key was a succesful businessman and broker for Merril Lynch.
  • René Lévesque - Journalist.
  • Harold Macmillan - Prime Minister of the UK, previously a soldier and publisher. Ended the British Empire in Africa and strengthened the UK's nuclear defences.
  • Brian Mulroney Truck driver, head of Iron Ore Corporation.
  • Barack Obama (see also below)
  • Jacques Parizeau Economist.
  • Condoleeza Rice - professor and Provost at Stanford University, served on the boards of several large corporations, senior fellow at the Institute of International Studies
  • Mitt Romney - CEO of Bain & Company, an investment company
  • Alex Salmond - First Minister of Scotland, economist and banker
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger - professional bodybuilder based on steroid use, actor
  • Heath Shuler - former businessman and former National Football League quarterback
  • Rick Snyder - President and COO of Gateway during the 1990s, later elected Governor of Michigan in 2010
  • Pierre Trudeau, lawyer, professor at Université de Montréal.

Careers outside of government that need further discussion

  • Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer ... or was it mostly administrative work and local government positions?
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower - military general
  • Reinhard Heydrich - possibly the most appalling of all the leading Nazi politicians because he planned the Final Solution; previously a naval officer.
  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin - first dictator of the Soviet Union and arguably the single most influential politician anywhere in the 20th century; previously a lawyer specialising in land ownership.
  • Barack Obama - claimed to organize church community groups, while not attending church himself; was a non-tenure-track part-time instructor in law at the University of Chicago.
  • Rick Santorum - attorney
  • George W. Bush - oil business, co-owner and managing general partner of the Texas Rangers
  • Lech Walesa - Electrician and Trade Union activist who became President of Poland

Obscure or otherwise inept Brits

(please add examples)

References

  1. George Washington as a Land Surveyor