Speaking of Memes
where’d that Chunk o’ Stupid come from anyway?!?
Yanno who else was a “governor?”
Bill Clinton: Governor of Arkansas for two separate terms, from 1979-1981, and from 1983-1992
George Bush: Governor of Texas from 1995-2000.
Thomas Jefferson: Virginia’s governor from 1779-1781
James Monroe: served as Governor of Virginia from 1799-1802, and again served for a brief period as the 16th Governor of Virginia from January through April in 1811.
John Tyler: another Governor of Virginia, serving from 1825-1827
Following governors from Virginia, other presidents were governors first from a variety of other states:
Martin Van Buren: Governor of New York in 1829
James Polk: Governor of Tennessee, serving from 1839-1841
Andrew Johnson: Governor of Tennessee from 1853-1857 and then appointed by Lincoln to serve as military governor of Tennessee from 1862-1864
Rutherford Hayes: Governor of Ohio from 1868-1872 and again from 1876-1877
Grover Cleveland: Governor of New York from 1883-1885
William McKinley: Governor of Ohio from 1892-1896
Theodore Roosevelt: Governor of New York from 1899-1901.
Woodrow Wilson: Governor of New Jersey from 1911-1913
Calvin Coolidge: Governor of Massachusetts from 1919-1921
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Governor of New York from 1929-1933
Ronald Reagan: Governor of California from 1967-1975
Jimmy Carter: Governor of Georgia from 1971-1975, and the first elected governor from the South post Civil War.
16 of 43.
Hitler was a community organizer.
Posted by on 09/15/08 at 05:52 PM
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