Essay:Politicians Who Had a Real Career

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

Jim Bunning - Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher
Jimmie Davis - accomplished singer ("You Are My Sunshine") who served two non-consecutive terms as governor of Louisiana
Benjamin Franklin - printer, author, postmaster, inventor
Jack Kemp - star professional football player (quarterback)
Rand Paul - physician (ophthalmologist)
Ron Paul - physician (obstetrician)
Ronald Reagan - actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild, and spokesman for General Electric
Rick Scott - former CEO of a major hospital network, now the Governor of Florida
George Washington - successful military general, land surveyor ^[1] and real estate investor

No clear influence in politics

Maria Cantwell - software company executive (Real Networks, who make RealPlayer)
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
Herbert Hoover - geologist, mining engineer
Rush Holt - assistant director of the government-subsidized Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Barack Obama (see also below)
Arnold Schwarzenegger - professional bodybuilder, actor
Rick Snyder - President and COO of Gateway during the 1990s, later elected Governor of Michigan in 2010

Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer ... or was it mostly administrative work and local government positions?
Dwight D. Eisenhower - military general
Thomas Jefferson - land surveyor ^[2]
Abraham Lincoln - land surveyor, tavern keeper, storekeeper, postmaster, lawyer ^[3]
Barack Obama - ???
Rick Santorum - attorney
George W. Bush - oil business, co-owner and managing general partner of the Texas Rangers ... Bush's business ventures before politics failed in many cases

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