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 |