Though 30-plus congressmen -- House representatives or Senators -- have gone on to be elected president, only Garfield, Harding, Kennedy, and Obama were elected directly from Congress as sitting representatives. Garfield was the lone House representative; Harding, Kennedy, and Obama were sitting senators.
Over the last century, presidents have come from the following backgrounds:
Barack H. Obama, senator; George W. Bush, governor of Texas; William J. Clinton, governor of Arkansas; George H.W. Bush, vice president; Ronald Reagan, governor of California; Jimmy Carter, governor of Georgia; Gerald R. Ford, vice president; Richard M. Nixon, private citizen, had served two terms as vice-president; Lyndon B. Johnson, vice-president; John F. Kennedy, senator; Dwight D. Eisenhower, five-star general, Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, then Supreme Commander of NATO; Harry Truman, vice president; Franklin D. Roosevelt, governor of New York; Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce under Coolidge and Harding; Calvin Coolidge, governor of Massachusetts; Warren G. Harding, senator; Woodrow Wilson, governor of New Jersey; William Howard Taft, Teddy Roosevelt's Secretary of War; Theodore Roosevelt, vice president when McKinley was assassinated.
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