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Friday, March 5th, 2010

What’s Next Trivia: Tallying the presidential lawyers

It seems that a law degree may improve your odds of being elected president, since 26 of our 44 presidents have also been lawyers. Here’s the complete list of lawyer-presidents:

Barack Obama at Harvard Law School

  1. John Adams
  2. Thomas Jefferson
  3. James Madison
  4. James Monroe
  5. John Quincy Adams
  6. Andrew Jackson
  7. Martin Van Buren
  8. John Tyler
  9. James Polk
  10. Millard Fillmore
  11. Franklin Pierce
  12. James Buchanan
  13. Abraham Lincoln
  14. Rutherford Hayes
  15. Chester Arthur
  16. Grover Cleveland
  17. Benjamin Harrison
  18. William McKinley
  19. William Howard Taft
  20. Woodrow Wilson
  21. Calvin Coolidge
  22. Franklin Roosevelt
  23. Richard Nixon
  24. Gerald Ford
  25. Bill Clinton
  26. Barack Obama


If you like presidential trivia, try these expert-level bonus questions. The answers are at the bottom of this post.

  1. Barack Obama graduated from Harvard Law in 1991. (Yep, that’s him above, on campus.)
    Who was the only president besides Obama to earn a law degree from Harvard?
  2. Who was the last president without a college degree?
  3. Why is Obama considered to be the 44th president, when he’s only the 43rd person to serve in that office?

Thanks to everyone who played during our second week of What’s Next Trivia – and congratulations to Abby W., an assistant librarian at a law firm in Minneapolis, who answered our trivia question and won the drawing for a $30 Starbucks gift card! We look forward to seeing Abby and our other Twin Cities friends at next week’s preview breakfast in Minneapolis. In the meantime, keep playing What’s Next Trivia with Johnny & Jenny Westlaw – and we’ll keep handing out those Starbucks gift cards.

How to enter and win

  • Watch  the Johnny & Jenny videos from the third week of the tour (Miami, Atlanta and Tampa).
  • Go to any of this week’s videos (from Houston, Denver or Dallas) and click on the PARTICIPATE tab on the bottom of the video screen.
  • Answer a single trivia question about one of the videos. Then type in your name and email address (so we can contact you if you win) and click Submit. That’s it!

One winner will be chosen at random from the entries we receive each week, so keep following and playing along as Johnny & Jenny visit the remaining cities on the tour! (For more information, see the official rules.)

Answers to Bonus Questions

  1. Rutherford Hayes graduated from Harvard Law School – way back in 1845.
  2. Harry Truman never earned a college sheepskin, although he did study law at the University of Missouri in Kansas City for a couple of years.
  3. Grover Cleveland served non-consecutive terms, so he is counted as the 22nd and the 24th presidents.

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