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*[[Al Franken]] - comedian (Saturday Night Live) | *[[Al Franken]] - comedian (Saturday Night Live) | ||
*[[Benjamin Franklin]] - printer, author, postmaster, inventor | *[[Benjamin Franklin]] - printer, author, postmaster, inventor | ||
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*[[Thomas Jefferson]] - land surveyor <ref>[http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/surveying Surveying]</ref> | *[[Thomas Jefferson]] - land surveyor <ref>[http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/surveying Surveying]</ref> | ||
*[[Jack Kemp]] - star professional football player (quarterback) | *[[Jack Kemp]] - star professional football player (quarterback) | ||
Revision as of 23:47, August 7, 2011
This is a list of significant politicians who had a real career (outside of politics):
- Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer
- Jimmie Davis - accomplished singer ("You Are My Sunshine") who served two non-consecutive terms as governor of Louisiana
- 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
- 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
- George Washington - successful military general, land surveyor [3] and real estate investor
Not yet influential in politics
- Maria Cantwell - software company executive (Real Networks, who make RealPlayer)
- Herman Cain - CEO of Godfathers Pizza and accomplished businessman
- 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
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