How many US presidents have been either in the military or highly ranked in the

Question:If you know, star the one's who were highly ranked.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: If you know, star the one's who were highly ranked.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Uni...

Thats a list of the presidents by military rank, and anything over one star, Brigadier General, is highly ranked.

http://www.heptune.com/preslist.html#Mil...

This site breaks it down to presidents who saw action while serving, ones who didnt, ones who presided in office during wartime and ones who didnt.

Here is a list

Eisenhower A 2 or 4 star general
Teddy Roosevelt not sure what rank he had

All of them. The President is the Commander in Chief. I would consider this is a pretty high ranking.

Before they were President;
George Washington was General of the Continental Army (1)

James Monroe fought in the Continental Army, serving with distinction at the Battle of Trenton. He is depicted holding the flag in the famous painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware(2)

Andrew Jackson was a Major General in the US army and commander of the Tennessee Militia with the rank of Colonel. (3)

William Henry Harrison took command of the Army of the Northwest During the War of 1812. (4)

Zachary Taylor was a Colonel, who received a brevet promotion to brigadier general in January 1838.(5)

Ulysses S. Grant was General of the Army of the United States(6)

Rutherford B. Hayes was promoted to Brigadier General in October 1864 and breveted Major General. (7)

James A. Garfield was a Major General of the 42nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. (8)

Chester A. Arthur was a Brigadier General, and Quartermaster General of the New York State militia during the Civil war (9)

Benjamin Harrison was brevetted as a brigadier general in 1864. (10)

Theodore Roosevelt resigned as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy Department, to become a Colonel of the 1st United State Calvary Regiment (11)

William H. Taft was Secretary of War. for Theodore Roosevelt, a civilian position in the military. (12)

Harry S. Truman rose to the rank of Colonel in the Missouri National Guard (13)

Dwight David Eisenhower was a 5 star general and 1st Supreme Allied Commander Europe (14)

John F. Kennedy earned the rank of lieutenant, commanding a patrol torpedo (PT) boat. (15)

Lyndon B. Johnson served briefly in the Navy as a lieutenant commander(16)

Richard M. Nixon also served as a lieutenant commander in the Navy (17)

Gerald Ford was promoted to lieutenant commander in the Navy On October 3, 1945 (18)

Jimmy Carter was another Navy man, He was a Lieutenant in the Submarine Service during the Korean Conflict. (19)

Ronald Reagan was a Captain in the Army Air Force during World War Two (20)

George H.W. Bush served in the Navy as a Lieutenant, Junior Grade (21)

George W. Bush was a Lieutenant in the Texas Air National Guard, seeing no combat action.