There is a common claim that Hillary Clinton was the most qualified person to ever run for the president of the United States.
Is this true?
Lets compare.
| president | occupation | cabinet position |
|---|---|---|
| George Washington | military, farmer, surveyor | |
| John Adams | lawyer, teacher, farmer | |
| Thomas Jefferson | lawyer, farmer, architect, inventor | Secretary of State |
| James Madison | lawyer, military, author | Secretary of State |
| James Monroe | lawyer | Secretary of State, Secretary of War |
| John Quincy Adams | lawyer | Secretary of State |
| Andrew Jackson | lawyer, military | |
| Martin Van Buren | lawyer | Secretary of State |
| William Henry Harrison | military | |
| John Tyler | lawyer | |
| James K. Polk | lawyer | |
| Zachary Taylor | military | |
| Millard Fillmore | lawyer | |
| Franklin Pierce | lawyer, military | |
| James Buchanan | lawyer | Secretary of State |
| Abraham Lincoln | lawyer | |
| Andrew Johnson | tailor | |
| Ulysses S. Grant | military | |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | lawyer, military | |
| James A. Garfield | military, teacher | |
| Chester A. Arthur | lawyer, teacher | |
| Grover Cleveland | lawyer | |
| Benjamin Harrison | lawyer, military | |
| Williiam McKinley | lawyer, military | |
| Theodore Roosevelt | military, author | |
| William Howard Taft | lawyer, judge | Secretary of War |
| Woodrow Wilson | lawyer, teacher | |
| Warren G. Harding | editor-publisher | |
| Calvin Coolidge | lawyer | |
| Herbert Hoover | engineer | |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | lawyer | |
| Harry S. Truman | military, farmer, judge, haberdasher | |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | military | |
| John F. Kennedy | military, author, journalist | |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | teacher | |
| Richard Nixon | lawyer | |
| Gerald Ford | lawyer | |
| Jimmy Carter | farmer | |
| Ronald Reagan | actor | |
| George H. W. Bush | businessman | |
| Bill Clinton | lawyer | |
| George W. Bush | businessman | |
| Barack Obama | lawyer, teacher | |
| Donald Trump | businessman | |
| Henry Clay | Secretary of State | |
| Daniel Webster | Secretary of State | |
| John C. Calhoun | Secretary of State, Secretary of War | |
| William Seward | Secretary of State | |
| James Blaine | Secretary of State | |
| William Jennings Bryan | Secretary of State | |
| John Kerry | Secretary of State | |
| Hillary Clinton | lawyer | Secretary of State |