Only two sitting senators have become POTUS?

Lucinda

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Tue Sep-02-08 11:24 PM
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Only two sitting senators have become POTUS?

Edited on Tue Sep-02-08 11:25 PM by wlucinda

Wow. I didn't know that. Now there will be three. :)

http://www.forbes.com/2008/02/08/obama-clinton-mccain-biz-beltway-cx_bw_0208senate.html

The Senator President
Brian Wingfield, 02.08.08, 12:10 PM ET

WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Here's a bit of amazing trivia for the historic election of 2008: It's the first time two sitting senators will run against each other as their party's nominee for president.

In fact, only two sitting senators have ever been elected president--John F. Kennedy, who ran against then Vice-President Richard Nixon in 1960, and Warren G. Harding, an Ohio Republican who beat the Democratic governor from his home state to win the 1920 election...

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