25 of the 44 presidents have been lawyers; the WSJ law blog has a list. Only one other besides Barack Obama has been a graduate of Harvard Law. It would take a trivia expert (or perhaps a Harvard grad) to identify that one: Rutherford B. Hayes.
P.S. See also, in comments, John Peralta’s list indicating that lawyer-nominees have lately been more common on the Democratic side than the Republican.
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Eugene Volokh blogged on my related observation of how Dems tend to choose attorneys to run for President. From that 9/18/08 Volokh Conspiracy post:
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The Party of the Lawyer Candidates vs. The Party of the Non-Lawyer Candidates:
John Peralta counts Democratic and Republican Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates since 1980, and sees how many lawyers there were:
[Democratic] Attorneys (10 out of 12 total – 83%)
Obama
Biden
Kerry
Edwards
Lieberman
Clinton
Dukakis
Bentsen
Mondale
Ferarro
[Possibly Gore, who never graduated — if he’s included, the percentage is 92%]
Carter was the only non-lawyer, non-law school attendee.
[Republican] Attorneys (2 out of 9 total – 22%)
Dole
Quayle
Non-lawyers – McCain, Palin, Bush 43, Cheney, Kemp, Bush 41 and Reagan
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apparently the white house web site identifies John Adams as a Harvard educated lawyer. for what that is worth.
John Adams went to Harvard College, but not Harvard Law School (which was founded long after he became a lawyer).