Talk:List of Presidents of the United States by occupation

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I removed some references to military service. There are already two pages listing President's military service. A lot served in the military, as is mentioned at the top of the article. I think only those who could be considered career soldiers - like Eisenhower - should have soldier listed next to their names. For the others, you can always look at the other pages, List of United States Presidents by military service, List of United States Presidents by military rank, even List of unsuccessful major-party United States presidential candidates' military service. Same as the reason for not listing previous political offices here - there is already List of United States Presidents by political occupation, and most would have some kind of service listed next to their name. - Matthew238 00:14, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Seems fine by me. By that standard, B. Harrison, McKinley and TR also should not be identified as soldiers, so I removed them. NoSeptember  00:22, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Yet shouldn't TR be listed as a soldier? People association him with the Rough Riders more than any other occupation. 24.20.60.216 (talk) 06:57, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Consider that many Presidents began a "career" in politics at a young age after one or more jobs in their youth/early 20s (teacher, farmer, surveyor, tailor, etc). Many became lawyers but were not career lawyers because they entered politics. Many served in the military during wartime and achieved a rank from Lieutenant to General (not all career officers); and many served in the military with distinction. THey should probably all get credit like all the other 'previous occupations'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.43.107.66 (talk) 08:48, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

Strange occupations
Lincoln as steam boat pilot? Surely not.

Tabletop 01:04, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

James Buchanan was a prizefighter?
I can find no mention on James Buchanan's own Wiki entry of his fighting career. His biography at whitehouse.gov does not mention the words 'fight', 'box' or 'prize'. My dead-tree encyclopedia makes no mention of it under his entry. I'm searching all over the 'net and finding zip.

If there is a credible citation out there somewhere that James Buchanan was a prizefighter, please disregard this message and provide. All I can find online are single-sentence repetitions of this with no details.

This might either be an urban legend, or a matter of confusion as both "James" and "Buchanan" appear to be very common names, particularly among Scotts.

Hosiah (talk) 03:36, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Eisenhower an "Ice lifter"?
I can find no mention of this profession anywhere except in lists that seem to be based on this Wikipedia entry. I'm going to remove it until someone can provide a credible citation confirming this former profession. Esbullin (talk) 14:13, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Grant a Tanner?
I found no info about this, so I removed it. His father was one, but nothing about him ever being one!

The Robot 2000 (talk) 07:37, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

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Merge to List of Presidents of the United States by previous experience
Please clarify which part of this merge was botched. This article is a duplicate of material on List of Presidents of the United States by previous experience and much less useful than it, and there is absolutely no need for this separate list. I am perfectly allowed to be WP:BOLD and merge something that is unnecessary on my own. Where is your discussion in reverting me and recreating a low-quality (and frequently inaccurate, e.g. Football player was never Ford's occupation) article? Reywas92Talk 22:46, 24 January 2018 (UTC)


 * If you'll take a look at the diff, you'll see that your edit fails to redirect to List of Presidents of the United States by previous experience; it redirects back to itself. This required either a repair or a revert. WP:PROMERGE states that a tag should be placed on each article's talk page after a merge; you neglected to do this. I agree that the articles should be merged. Ewulp (talk) 03:11, 25 January 2018 (UTC)