What would be the experiences of the best-experienced candidate of all time?

[Blue3]

What would be the experiences of the best-experienced presidential candidate of all time?

I'd think something like:
*Degrees in Political Science, Public Administration, Business Administration, Law
*AmeriCorps & PeaceCorps service
*Military service
*Police Officer
*Detective
*Scientist
*Doctor
*Professor
*Teacher (involved with labor union)
*Preacher/Minister/Pastor
*successful Entrepreneur and Business-founder/director
*Lawyer
*Campaign Manager for important campaign
*Local/State Party Chairman
*City Council
*Mayor
*State Representative (and leadership position there)
*U.S. Representative (and leadership position there)
*Governor
*Senator (and leadership position there)
*Ambassador to important county
*CIA Director
*Defense Secretary
*State Secretary
*WH Chief of Staff
*Vice President

[Simfan34]

How old is this person? 260?

[Indy Texas]

What would be the experiences of the best-experienced presidential candidate of all time?

I'd think something like:
*Degrees in Political Science, Public Administration, Business Administration, Law
*AmeriCorps & PeaceCorps service
*Military service
*Police Officer
*Detective
*Scientist
*Doctor
*Professor
*Teacher (involved with labor union)
*Preacher/Minister/Pastor
*successful Entrepreneur and Business-founder/director
*Lawyer
*Campaign Manager for important campaign
*Local/State Party Chairman
*City Council
*Mayor
*State Representative (and leadership position there)
*U.S. Representative (and leadership position there)
*Governor
*Senator (and leadership position there)
*Ambassador to important county
*CIA Director
*Defense Secretary
*State Secretary
*WH Chief of Staff
*Vice President

I think I can make this work...ended up getting most of them:

Age 16: graduates from high school early as a result of skipping the first grade and taking dual-credit community college classes in the summers during high school
Age 19: graduates from college with a double major in philosophy and behavioral neuroscience; volunteers on a congressional campaign one summer
Age 19-20: serves in inner-city Philadelphia as an AmeriCorps volunteer
Age 20-22: Peace Corps service in Central America
Age 22: joins the US Army Reserve and begins working full-time at a technology startup
Age 26: receives large payout after startup is sold to a major technology firm
Age 26-29: receives MS in neuroscience while working as a researcher at a major medical school
Age 29-30: teaches high school and teaches a class at a community college
Age 30-33: completes law school
Age 33-35: completes M.Div.
Age 35-36: passes bar and practices law
Age 36-38: works at a think tank as a research fellow focusing on law and theology; teaches classes on Christian theology at church as a volunteer
Age 38: elected to city council for the major city in which (s)he lives
Age 40: reelected to city council
Age 42: elected mayor of city
Age 46: runs for US House of Representatives and wins
Age 52: chosen as director of his/her party's congressional campaign committee, oversees a net gain in seats in the next elections
Age 54: elected governor
Age 58: reelected governor
Age 60: resigns to serve as US Ambassador to Mexico
Age 62: appointed director of the CIA
Age 66: leaves CIA after new administration chooses a new director; joins several boards of major corporations
Age 68: appointed to one of his/her state's US Senate seats which had become vacant due to the resignation of a US Senator; declines to run in the special election later that year and retires after ~6 months
Age 70: new presidential administration appoints him/her Secretary of State
Age 72: becomes Secretary of Defense after the president does a Cabinet reshuffling
Age 74: becomes president's chief of staff following his reelection
Age 76: becomes vice president after the incumbent VP resigns due to a personal scandal
Age 78: runs for and is elected POTUS

He/she would probably be a terrible president considering their resume suggests being a jack-of-all-trades and master of none who never did anything for more than a year or two.

[Middle-aged Europe]

If you think about it, George H.W. Bush comes pretty close... Vice President, CIA Director, (de facto) Ambassador to China, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Ambassador to the United Nations, Congressman, two-time senatorial candidate, president of the Zapata Off-Shore Company, Yale graduate, U.S. naval aviator during World War II...

[Indy Texas]

If you think about it, George H.W. Bush comes pretty close... Vice President, CIA Director, (de facto) Ambassador to China, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Ambassador to the United Nations, Congressman, two-time senatorial candidate, president of the Zapata Off-Shore Company, Yale graduate, U.S. naval aviator during World War II...

A lot of that was a function of lucky timing and the fact that a lot of political appointments were based on personal connections moreso then than they are now. He wouldn't have become the president of an oil company in his 30s if not for the family connections and wealth that he had; the modern equivalent would probably be using your trust fund to invest in a startup that makes iPhone apps. And today I doubt any president would choose as ambassador to China an oil businessman with no foreign policy background and no knowledge of Mandarin. There's a lot more "specialization" expected of people today than in the past.

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If you think about it, George H.W. Bush comes pretty close... Vice President, CIA Director, (de facto) Ambassador to China, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Ambassador to the United Nations, Congressman, two-time senatorial candidate, president of the Zapata Off-Shore Company, Yale graduate, U.S. naval aviator during World War II...

BTW, Zapata was a CIA front company.

[Middle-aged Europe]

And today I doubt any president would choose as ambassador to China an oil businessman with no foreign policy background and no knowledge of Mandarin.

Well, Bush was the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations when he was appointed Envoy to China.

But I get your point.

[Indy Texas]

And today I doubt any president would choose as ambassador to China an oil businessman with no foreign policy background and no knowledge of Mandarin.

Well, Bush was the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations when he was appointed Envoy to China.

But I get your point.

Compare Bush's resume to those of more recent UN ambassadors like Susan Rice or John Bolton - nowadays if you want to be a "real" ambassador (i.e. not a major donor going to Western Europe or the Caribbean), you have to make that the sole focus of your career; Bush was a "dabbler" by today's standards and never would have been sent to the UN today.

[pbrower2a]

Buchanan.

He was clearly past prime.