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What, was being an elected congressman not enough?

• dv_dt 8y ago
  Though some Presidents have served as house representatives in their past, none of them made the Presidency without doing something else in between their house service and winning the presidency. https://history.house.gov/People/Other-Office/Member-President/ https://history.house.gov/People/Other-Office/Member-Preside...
  • dvtrn 8y ago
    Still satisfies the stated refrain of "having political experience", but an interesting historical factoid nonetheless.
    • dragonwriter 8y ago
      > Still satisfies the stated refrain of "having political experience” The request was for candidates with “lots of political and executive experience”, not merely some political experience.
    • dv_dt 8y ago
      The "something else" was mostly to get more experience in leadership. The president with the shortest jump from House to VP then President, for example, Gerald Ford, had been the minority leader for five terms. It's not just a factoid. It shows that more experience has been generally required.
• dragonwriter 8y ago
  3 terms in the House and some local council work is not “lots of political experience”, at least by the standards of historical Presidents. Whether the software/services for he founded in 1998 and ran until...sometime before March 2017 is lots of executive experience is debatable, but it's certainly not particularly large scale executive experience for a Presidential candidate.