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To: Political Junkie Too

You forgot FDR, Calvin Coolidge, William Howard Taft, Rutherford B. Hayes and many others.


54 posted on 02/12/2015 4:55:25 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Not according to this wikipedia entry.

List of Presidents of the United States by education

-PJ

75 posted on 02/12/2015 5:13:30 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I should have said modern Presidents.

-PJ

83 posted on 02/12/2015 5:15:39 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

From Wikipedia also:

School

President(s)

Albany Law School William McKinley (did not graduate)

Columbia Law School Theodore Roosevelt (withdrew) (Awarded J.D. in 2008, class of 1882)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (withdrew) (Awarded J.D. in 2008, class of 1907)

Duke University School of Law Richard Nixon

Georgetown University Law Center Lyndon B. Johnson (withdrew)

Harvard Law School Rutherford B. Hayes
Barack Obama

Northampton Law School Franklin Pierce (did not graduate)

State and National Law School Chester A. Arthur (did not graduate)

University of Cincinnati College of Law William Howard Taft

University of Kansas City School of Law Harry S. Truman (withdrew)

University of Virginia School of Law Woodrow Wilson (withdrew)

Yale Law School Gerald Ford
Bill Clinton
Several Presidents who were lawyers did not attend law school, but became lawyers after independent study. Some had attended college before beginning their legal studies, and several studied law without first having attended college. Presidents who were lawyers but did not attend law school include: John Adams; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; James Monroe; John Quincy Adams; Andrew Jackson; Martin Van Buren; John Tyler; James K. Polk; Millard Fillmore; James Buchanan; Abraham Lincoln; James A. Garfield; Grover Cleveland; Benjamin Harrison; and Calvin Coolidge.

Presidents who were admitted to the bar after a combination of law school and independent study include; Franklin Pierce; Chester A. Arthur; William McKinley; and Woodrow Wilson.


104 posted on 02/12/2015 5:33:03 AM PST by donaldo
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