since I was born in 1949, I believe Dwight D. Eisenhour was the last president to be a general in the military...is there any between U.S.Grant and Eisenhour? or since Eisenhour?
2007-01-23 13:35:48 · 8 answers · asked by msdaisy1949 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Nine,,,,,George Washington,,,,,,Andrew Jackson,,,,,,William H. Harrison, War of 1812,,,,,,Zachery Taylor,,,,,,,Franklin Peirce, Mexican-American War,,,,,,,U.S. Grant,,,,,,,Rutherford B. Hayes,Civil War,,,,,,,James Garfield,Civil War,,,,,,,Eisenhower,,,,,,I might of missed one ................ EDIT .............. I was wrong,it's 12... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Presidents_by_military_rank
2007-01-23 14:19:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can name 3 on the top of my head but I don't know if there were more: Washington, Grant and Eisenhower.
2007-01-23 21:52:31 · answer #2 · answered by scarlettt_ohara 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Grant sucked as an Adminstrator--he has several failed businesses under his belt before the Civil War (He and Bush have that in common).
Ike understood that Russia was a paper tiger from the beginning--made him the smart one in the whole cold war period. Ironically, it was warhawk Democrats harping about "missile gaps" based on Kruschev's claims of pumping out ICBMs like sausages that fanned the flames of the cold war.
Kennedy had to rediscover the fact that Russia was not ready to go to war with us via the Cuban missile crisis when Russia backed down on their failed ploy to gain concessions in Eastern Europe by threatening Washington D.C.
One by one, successive presidents rediscovered this: Reagan discovered it after his first year in office. Luckily, this coincided with Gorbachev's succession of Andropov, and by backing down on the cold war rhetoric, he enabled Gorbachev to do the untinkable: hand over oligarchal power to a parlimentary government.
2007-01-23 21:44:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you forgetting Andrew Jackson, that guy who won Tippicanoe, and General George Washington?
2007-01-23 21:44:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Four. Washington, Jackson, Grant , and Eisenhower.
2007-01-23 21:51:44 · answer #5 · answered by Beau R 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe three, namely Washington, Grant, and Eisenhower
2007-01-23 21:39:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. But Washington was a general.
2007-01-23 21:39:01 · answer #7 · answered by Shaddup Libs 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
not very many
2007-01-23 21:43:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋