Editing President of the United States (section)

===Prior experience===
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There are no requirements for previous or concurrent offices held by the President or presidential candidates.  However, every President except Donald Trump has been a [[Governor (United States)|governor]], [[United States Senate|U.S. senator]] or [[United States House of Representatives|Congressman]], [[General officers in the United States|general]] or [[Cabinet of the United States|cabinet member]].

The most common previous profession of presidents is lawyer, applying to 27 of the 45 men who have served as President.<ref>International Law, US Power: The United States' Quest for Legal Security, p 10, Shirley V. Scott—2012</ref>  However, several future Presidents abandoned the study or practice of law prior to the Presidency.  There has never been a property qualification for the Presidency or other federal offices, but, in the early years of the republic, there were [[Property_qualification#United States of America|property qualifications for voting]] or for some of the stepping-stone offices to the Presidency (particularly governorships).  Prior to the Civil War, it was common for presidents to be men of significant property: Presidents from the North tended to own small farms, while several Southern presidents owned plantations and [[List of presidents of the United States who owned slaves|slaves]].<ref name="24/7 Wall St.">{{cite news|url=https://247wallst.com/special-report/2019/02/26/the-net-worth-of-the-american-presidents-washington-to-trump-2/|title=The Net Worth of the American Presidents: Washington to Trump|date=November 10, 2016|work=24/7 Wall St.|access-date=April 10, 2019|publisher=247wallst.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410142809/https://247wallst.com/special-report/2019/02/26/the-net-worth-of-the-american-presidents-washington-to-trump-2/|archive-date=April 10, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Whitney |first1=Gleaves |title=Slaveholding Presidents |url=https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=ask_gleaves |website=Ask Gleaves |publisher=Grand Valley State University |access-date=October 14, 2020 |ref=gvsu}}</ref>   While several later presidents came from abject poverty, others, such as the Roosevelts, John Kennedy, and Donald Trump, were parties to extensive family fortunes.<ref name="24/7 Wall St."></ref> 

33 of the 45 men who served as President, including every president since 1953 and all but one since 1901, have had a bachelor's degree.  Of those, [[Ivy_League#U.S. presidents in the Ivy League|16 presidents]] received a Bachelor's or advanced degree from colleges in the [[Ivy League]].