No US president was drafter by an NFL team. However, President Gerald Ford turned down offers from the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions to instead pursue a law degree from Yale.
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∙ 2012-01-04 15:21:14Not while they are president. They are commander and chief of the armed forces. They run the show.
No US president went to Canada to avoid the draft. Jimmy Carter was sympathetic to such people and he issued a blanket pardon to them.
There was no president during the American Revolution. There was no United States for that matter. The Revolutionary War took place from 1775-1783, the constitution was not even drafted nor ratified until 1787.
In the US ,The vice president and the president run as a team and are elected at the same time. The current VP was elected in Nov. 2008. The next election will in Nov. 2012.
For the most part, James Madison.
Not while they are president. They are commander and chief of the armed forces. They run the show.
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I am not quite certain how you define "drafted", but there were presidents who did not openly campaign for the nomination. Among these were Washington, Taylor, Pierce , Grant and Eisenhower.
Thomas Jefferson but at that time he wasn't presidant
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making yourself available for the draft. Like all US sports, you have to make yourself available to be drafted
Each NFL team is allowed to have up to 53 players. In 2011 the total number of teams was 32 and there were 1,696 NFL players in the US.
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No US president went to Canada to avoid the draft. Jimmy Carter was sympathetic to such people and he issued a blanket pardon to them.
That's actually from the Masschusetts Constitution, which was drafted by John Adams (second US President) and published in 1790.
Richard Nixon was President when the last American was drafted in December 1972. However,the end of the draft was not solely due to Nixon.