The Ultimate Alternative Career for Lawyers

While it may no longer be true that you can do anything with a law a degree, one job that still does appear to be J.D. preferred is President of the United States of America. Twenty-five of the nation’s 44 presidents studied or practiced law at some point during their careers. In honor of Presidents’ Day, below find a list of the United State Presidents who were also lawyers.

• No. 2 — John Adams
• No. 3 — Thomas Jefferson
• No . 4 — James Madison
• No. 6 — John Quincy Adams
• No. 7 — Andrew Jackson
• No. 8 — Martin Van Buren
• No. 10 — John Tyler
• No. 11 — James Polk
• No. 13 — Millard Fillmore
• No. 14 — Franklin Pierce
• No. 15 — James Buchanan
• No. 16 — Abraham Lincoln
• No. 19 — Rutherford Hayes
• No. 21 — Chester Arthur
• No. 22 — Grover Cleveland
• No. 23 — Benjamin Harrison
• No. 25 — William McKinley
• No. 27 — William Howard Taft
• No. 28 — Woodrow Wilson
• No. 30 — Calvin Coolidge
• No. 32 — Franklin Roosevelt
• No. 37 — Richard Nixon
• No. 38 — Gerald Ford
• No. 42 — Bill Clinton
• No. 44 — Barack Obama

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