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Presidential Law School Dropouts

Paul Caron

According to this site, more U.S. Presidents dropped out of law school (6) than graduated (5):

Presidents who dropped out of law school:

    • Lyndon Johnson (Georgetown)
    • William McKinley (Albany)
    • Franklin Roosevelt (Columbia)
    • Theodore Roosevelt (Columbia)
    • Harry Truman (Missouri-Kansas City)
    • Woodrow Wilson (Virginia)

Presidents who graduated from law school:

    • Bill Clinton (Yale)
    • Gerald Ford (Yale)
    • Rutherford Hayes (Harvard)
    • Richard Nixon (Duke)
    • William Howard Taft (Cincinnati)

About the Author

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Paul Caron
Paul Caron was named Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean of Pepperdine University School of Law on June 1, 2017. Dean Caron joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2013 after serving as the Dorothy and Leonard Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law in the spring semesters of 2010 through 2013. He served as Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at Pepperdine in 2015-2017. Before coming to Pepperdine, he was Associate Dean of Faculty and Charles Hartsock Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.
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