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Quick trivia question: When was the last time one of the two major parties nominated a candidate for president who was neither a politician nor a former general?
The prize for the winner is that they get to relax about the possibility of Donald Trump becoming the 45th president of the United States.
UPDATE: Such smart commenters! The answer is Wendell Wilkie, 75 years ago. He lost, of course.
So who was the last person to win the presidency with no previous political or military experience? Answer: no one. The closest call is probably Herbert Hoover, whose only political experience before 1928 was eight years as the appointed Secretary of Commerce. And look what happened to him.
