Which US Presidents were not wealthy men? I'm looking for an average guy here.
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"No impoverished man has ever been elected to the Presidency. Of the four Chief Executives who were actually born in log cabins—Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, and James A. Garfield—all had become moderately wealthy by the time they reached the White House."
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I've been reading a fascinating biography on Grover Cleveland. He was very average, and highly moral. If he had personal expenses while president, he'd foot the bill himself, he never expected the government to pay for what he thought he should pay for. I'm still in the middle of the book, but at the end of his first term (he served two non-consecutive terms) he was hardly a wealthy man.
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I don't know the answer to that question. But it's not the "wealthy" ones that are dangerous..it's the "poor as churchmice when they became president who ended up multi-millionaires" that you gotta watch out for! :(
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