Comments on: Lawyer presidents https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/11/lawyer-presidents/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:46:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: James https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/11/lawyer-presidents/comment-page-1/#comment-33990 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:46:32 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=7814#comment-33990 John Adams went to Harvard College, but not Harvard Law School (which was founded long after he became a lawyer).

]]> By: tom https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/11/lawyer-presidents/comment-page-1/#comment-33985 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:13:23 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=7814#comment-33985 apparently the white house web site identifies John Adams as a Harvard educated lawyer. for what that is worth.

]]> By: John Peralta https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/11/lawyer-presidents/comment-page-1/#comment-33967 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:09:54 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=7814#comment-33967 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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