Before Rudy Guiliani, who was the last mayor to be a major presidential candidate without having experience as a senator or governor?
Not sure. But I think the last MAJOR party candidate who never held elected office at all was Wendell Willkie. I think.
No, Eisenhower had never held a political office before being elected President.
I would have thought it was Eisenhower.
Gee, I thought we were looking for the “Mayor” who was a presidential cadidate.
George H. W. Bush had served in the House of Representatives and as Vice President. But he had never been a Senator or Governor (or a Mayor).
Wikipedia shows that Calvin Coolidge was the last mayor to become president.
I think the question is more interesting if we choose Presidential candidates that were once mayors.
Who ran from US President and was once a mayor?
John Lindsay ran in some of the Democratic primaries in 1972.
John Lindsay from NYC briefly ran for the 1972 Democratic nomination after switching parties. But I don’t think any sitting mayor has ever won a party’s nomination.
Coolidge was a former mayor, but he was also the Governor of Massachusetts.