Military Experience - Some Have It - Some Don't
Which Presidents were in the Military?
Which Presidents Ruled during a War?
Which Presidents fought in a War?
Which Presidents have no military experience?
The President is also the Commander-In-Chief for the United States Military.
Presidents Who Were in the Military But Saw No Action
- James Madison
- James Polk
- Millard Fillmore
- Jimmy Carter
- Ronald Reagan - kept out of combat due to bad eyesight
- George W. Bush
Presidents Who Served in Wars
- George Washington - Commander in Chief of Continental Army during the American Revolution
- James Monroe - American Revolution
- Andrew Jackson - American Revolution, War of 1812, First Seminole War
- William Henry Harrison - Indian Wars in NW Territory, Ware of 1812
- John Tyler - War of 1812
- Zachary Taylor - War of 1812, Black Hawk, Second Seminole and Mexican Wars
- Franklin Pierce - Mexican War
- James Buchanan - War of 1812
- Abraham Lincoln - Black Hawk War
- Andrew Johnson - Civil War
- Ulysses Grant - Mexican War, Civil War
- Rutherford Hayes - Civil War
- James Garfield - Civil War
- Chester Arthur - Civil War
- Benjamin Harrison - Civil War
- William McKinley - Civil War
- Theodore Roosevelt - Spanish American War
- Harry Truman - WWI
- Dwight Eishenhower - WWII General
- John Kennedy - WWII
- Lyndon Johnson - WWII
- Richard Nixon - WWII
- Gerald Ford - WWII
- George Bush - WWII
Presidents with No Military Experience
- John Adams
- Thomas Jefferson
- John Quincy Adams
- Martin Van Buren
- Grover Cleveland
- William Taft
- Woodrow Wilson
- Warren Harding
- Calvin Coolidge
- Herbert Hoover
- Franklin Roosevelt
- Bill Clinton
- Barack Obama
Presidents During Wartime
- George Washington - Native American War in Ohio
- Thomas Jefferson - Tripolitan War
- James Madison - War of 1812
- James Monroe - First Seminole War
- Andrew Jackson - Black Hawk War
- Martin Van Buren - Aroostook War, Second Seminole War
- William Henry Harrison - Second Seminole War
- James Polk - Mexican War
- James Buchanan - Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln - Civil War
- William McKinley - Spanish-American War, Boxer Rebellion
- Woodrow Wilson - WWI
- Warren Harding - WWI
- Franklin Roosevelt - WWII
- Harry Truman - WWII, Korean War
- Dwight Eisenhower - Korean War
- John Kennedy - Bay of Pigs Invasion, Vietnam War
- Lyndon Johnson - Vietnam War, Dominican Republic
- Richard Nixon - Vietnam War
- Ronald Reagan - Grenada Invasion
- George Bush - Invasion of Panama, Persian Gulf War
- George H.W. Bush - War Against Taliban, Iraq
- Barack Obama - Iraq
