U.S. Presidents, as you can likely imagine, have a history of being very well educated. You'd hope that this would be the case - it is, after all, the smartest office in the land. However, of the 43 men that have been President, only one has held a Doctorate. So, from Pocket Trivia: US Presidents - Who is the only American President to hold a Doctorate? Is it John Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon or Woodrow Wilson?
It is not John Kennedy - Kennedy graduated from Harvard with a degree in International Affairs, but that's it.
Not Clinton. Clinton obtained a law degree from Yale in 1973 and was actually a Rhodes Scholar, but he did not hold a doctorate.
It wasn't Richard Nixon either. Nixon was also a lawyer, however - he graduated from Duke with a law degree in 1937.
The correct answer is Woodrow Wilson. Wilson was an academic prior to serving as President of the United States; before entering politics, Wilson served as the President of Princeton University from 1902 - 1910. Prior to that, Wilson earned his Ph.D. for History & Political Science in 1886.
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