It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => History => Topic started by: rustybayonet on December 21, 2013, 10:04:36 AM
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A research project from years ago was a 4-5 year study of Presidents, for a history book I wrote for each of my grandchildren. If there is an interest, I'll post some of the things I learned concerning each one - [fortunately I had finished it prior to the 'thing' in office now].
Anyway - here goes;
It's been said that Lawyers make up the majority of politicians, I guess to perpetuate their livelyhood, [make the laws they can attack in court].
Well here is a run down of the Previous professions of Presidents;
George Washington ---------------- Surveyor,Farmer/plantation owner, Soldier
John Adams ----------------------- Lawyer
Thomas Jefferson ----------------- Writer, inventor, lawyer, architect
James Madison -------------------- Lawyer
James Monroe --------------------- Lawyer
John Quincy Adams ---------------- Lawyer
Andrew Jackson ------------------- Soldier, Lawyer
Martin VanBuren ------------------- Lawyer
William H. Harrison ----------------- Soldier
John Tyler ------------------------- Lawyer
James Polk ------------------------ Lawyer
Zachary Taylor -------------------- Soldier
Millard Fillmore --------------------- Lawyer
Franklin Pierce --------------------- Lawyer
James Buchanan ------------------- Lawyer
Abraham Lincoln ------------------- Merchant, Laborer, Lawyer
Andrew Johnson ------------------- Tailor
Ulysses S. Grant ------------------- Soldier
Rutherford B. Hayes ---------------- Lawyer
James Garfield --------------------- School Teacher, Minister
Chester Arthur -------------------- School Teacher, Lawyer, collector of tarriffs
Grover Cleveland ------------------- Sheriff, Lawyer
Benjamin Harrison ------------------ Lawyer, Journalist
William McKinley -------------------- Lawyer
Theodore Roosevelt ---------------- Public Offical, Rancher
William H. Taft --------------------- Lawyer, Judge, dean of Law School at University of Cincinnati
Woodrow Wilson ------------------- Lawyer, Professor, President of Princeton University
Warren Harding -------------------- Newspaper Editor
Calvin Collidge --------------------- Lawyer
Herbert Hoover --------------------- Engineer
Franklin Roosevelt ------------------ Lawyer, Asst. Sec. Navy
Harry Truman ---------------------- Farmer, Men's Clothing Retailer, Senator
Dwight D. Eisenhower -------------- Soldier, Army Chief of Staff, President of Columbia University
John F. Kennedy ------------------- Writer, Congressman, Senator
Lyndon Johnson ------------------- Public Official
Richard Nixon ---------------------- Lawyer
Gerald Ford ------------------------ Lawyer, Congressman
James Carter ---------------------- Farmer, Writer, Governor
Ronald Reagan --------------------- Actor & Broadcaster, president of screen actors guild, Governor
George H.W. Bush ------------------ Businessman, Ambassador, CIA Director
Willliam Clinton --------------------- Lawyer, Law lecturer, Governor
George W. Bush -------------------- Businessman, Governor
[I did add this, only to let the grandkids know what was listed as his background at the time for history].
Barack Obama --------------------- Lawyer, Civic Organizer, Senator
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With a few minor blips you can really see the decline reflected in the persons...especially since the progressive era began! ::pullhair::
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With a few minor blips you can really see the decline reflected in the persons...especially since the progressive era began! ::pullhair::
It would be really easy, and very valuable to posit an amendment to the constitution prohibiting lawyers. It might have saved our country, had it been done from the start.
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With a few minor blips you can really see the decline reflected in the persons...especially since the progressive era began! ::pullhair::
It would be really easy, and very valuable to posit an amendment to the constitution prohibiting lawyers. It might have saved our country, had it been done from the start.
The early ones were OK, later on they got meddlesome...a sunset clause would have been nice.
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It would be really easy, and very valuable to posit an amendment to the constitution prohibiting lawyers. It might have saved our country, had it been done from the start.
Today lawyers would sue on the basis of "discrimination".
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How many professions [term used loosely] can they say write the laws that they can enforce at will.
With so many lawyers in the country, they have to perpetuate their own livelyhood. ::pokeineye:: ::outrage::