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Article: A stepping stone to the presidency.(STATESTATS)(state legislature)
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- State Legislatures
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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So you want to be president. The state legislature is a good career path. President George W. Bush is the nation's 43rd president. He didn't spend any time in the legislature (although he was governor of Texas), but 22 of our presidents did. Colonial legislators, not surprisingly, gave us some of our most famous presidents: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe. Jefferson, of course, wrote the Declaration of Independence. He started his political career in the Virginia House of Burgesses, where he served with first president and signer of the U.S. constitution, George Washington.
The legislature was the training ground ...
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