1. Grover Cleveland
Few past jobs look more professional and nice on a CV than the profession of a hangman, but that’s what former President Grover Cleveland had before he came to the White House.
The politician was hired as the sheriff of Erie County, New York, for a 3-year period, between 1871 and 1874, and one of his duties was executing people who were punished with the death penalty. Pretty crazy and cold-blooded, right? Well, you do what you’ve got to do!
What’s crazy about this entire story is that sources say Cleveland could’ve simply delegated this duty to other people working there, but he was the one who insisted on taking care of this thing himself. He wanted to be 100% sure that people who deserved to be punished truly got their “payment”, and the 1st man he hanged was an Irishman guilty of killing his mother.
He also executed one other person during his time as a sheriff, and people’s thoughts regarding his occupation were completely different. While some said that he was a very brave and honorable man for taking care of such a hard thing, others accused him of being bloodthirsty. Regardless of which side you’re on, one thing is still popular today: due to his job as an executor, he was popularly known as the “Hangman of Buffalo”.
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Kennedy was my favorite. To this day I read or watch everything published on Kennedy and Jackie.
Wasn’t it George H.W. Bush who was the good baseball player? As I recall the stories, Bush Senior played first base for the Yale team that went to the College World Series and that played against Cal.