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by tptacek 4142 days ago

  Obama - Law
  Bush - Business 
  Clinton - Law
  Bush - Business
  Reagan - Actor
  Carter - Nuclear Engineer & Farmer
  Ford - Law
  Nixon - Law
  LBJ - HS Teacher
  JFK - Econ 
  Ike - Military
  Truman - No degree
  FDR - Law
  Hoover - Engineer
  Coolidge - Law
  Harding - Journalist
  Wilson - Law Prof
  Taft - Law
  Teddy Roosevelt - History & Politics
Law is clearly the modal occupation for presidents, but there's some diversity.