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*[[Jack Kemp]] - star professional football player (quarterback) | *[[Jack Kemp]] - star professional football player (quarterback) | ||
*[[Abraham Lincoln]] - land surveyor, tavern keeper, storekeeper, postmaster, lawyer <ref>[http://www.surveyhistory.org/abraham_lincoln_-_the_surveyor1.htm Abraham Lincoln - The Land Surveyor]</ref> | *[[Abraham Lincoln]] - land surveyor, tavern keeper, storekeeper, postmaster, lawyer <ref>[http://www.surveyhistory.org/abraham_lincoln_-_the_surveyor1.htm Abraham Lincoln - The Land Surveyor]</ref> | ||
| − | *[[Barack Obama]] - attorney | + | *[[Barack Obama]] - attorney and bestselling author |
*[[Rand Paul]] - physician (ophthalmologist) | *[[Rand Paul]] - physician (ophthalmologist) | ||
*[[Ron Paul]] - physician (obstetrician) | *[[Ron Paul]] - physician (obstetrician) | ||
Revision as of 00:11, August 8, 2011
This is a list of significant politicians who had a real career (outside of politics):
- Jim Bunning - Major League Baseball pitcher
- Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer
- Jimmie Davis - accomplished singer ("You Are My Sunshine") who served two non-consecutive terms as governor of Louisiana
- Dwight D. Eisenhower - military general
- Al Franken - comedian (Saturday Night Live)
- Benjamin Franklin - printer, author, postmaster, inventor
- Herbert Hoover - geologist, mining engineer
- Thomas Jefferson - land surveyor [1]
- Jack Kemp - star professional football player (quarterback)
- Abraham Lincoln - land surveyor, tavern keeper, storekeeper, postmaster, lawyer [2]
- Barack Obama - attorney and bestselling author
- Rand Paul - physician (ophthalmologist)
- Ron Paul - physician (obstetrician)
- Ronald Reagan - actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild, and spokesman for General Electric
- Rick Santorum - attorney
- Rick Scott - former CEO of a major hospital network, now the Governor of Florida
- Arnold Schwarzenegger - actor
- George Washington - successful military general, land surveyor [3] and real estate investor
Not yet influential in politics
- Herman Cain - CEO of Godfathers Pizza and accomplished businessman
- Maria Cantwell - software company executive (Real Networks, who make RealPlayer)
- Mike Enzi - accountant
- Bill Foster - physicist at the government-subsidized Fermilab
- Rush Holt - assistant director of the government-subsidized Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Rick Snyder - President and COO of Gateway during the 1990s, later elected Governor of Michigan in 2010
(please add examples)