A post was recently made on r/CrazyIdeas stating "They should give presidential candidates a small community to rule over for a couple of months as a trial." -- How many US presidents were previously governors, mayors, etc - and how well viewed were their administrations?

by DrHENCHMAN

Link in reference! https://ww.reddit.com/r/CrazyIdeas/comments/54qfk0/they_should_give_presidential_candidates_a_small/

jimros

Four of the last six were governors: GWB (Texas), Clinton (Arkansas), Reagan (California), Carter (Georgia). I'm pretty sure there haven't been any mayors since Calvin Coolidge, although he had a number of positions in between being mayor and president (including governor) and the town he was mayor of was not that significant.