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Most presidents of the United States received a college education, even most of the earliest.Of the first seven presidents, five were college graduates. College degrees have set the presidents apart from the general population, and presidents have held degrees even though it was quite rare and unnecessary for practicing most occupations, including law.
1898 (MA in political economy from Harvard), 1909 (PhD from Harvard) Pierre Trudeau Canada: 1968–1979, 1980–1984 Harvard University: MA in Political Economy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Ricardo Lagos Chile: 2000–2006 Duke University: 1962 (PhD) Sebastián Piñera Chile: 2010-2014, 2018-2022 Harvard University: Lee Teng-Hui
All presidents from Leonard Hoar in 1672 through Nathan Pusey in 1971 were graduates of Harvard College. Of the presidents since Pusey, nearly all earned a graduate degree at Harvard. The only exception has been Drew Gilpin Faust, who was the first president since the seventeenth century with no earned Harvard degree.
1755 – College; 1758 – A.M. President of the United States [1] John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) 1787 – College; 1790 – A.M. President of the United States [2] Arnulfo Arias (born 1901) 1925 – HMS President of Panama: George W. Bush (born 1946) 1973 – HBS: President of the United States [3] Felipe Calderón Hinojosa (born 1962) 2000 ...
2. John Adams: Schoolmaster. b. 1735 – 1826. President: 1797 – 1801 . After graduating from Harvard in 1755 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, John Adams planned to practice law, but instead he ...
For a list of Harvard's presidents, see President of Harvard University. Eight Presidents of the United States have graduated from Harvard University: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, John F. Kennedy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.
No. Image Name Home state Took office Left office Party School President(s) Ref 1: John Adams: Massachusetts: April 21, 1789: March 4, 1797: Federalist: Harvard College
In 1736, he was appointed and then approved by Governor Belcher as the choice as President of Harvard College. The General Court agreed to pay Marblehead Society 140 pounds "to encourage and facilitate the settlement of a minister there ..." Holyoke became the 9th President of Harvard College (1737–1769), succeeding after Benjamin Wadsworth ...