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How many US Presidents were Scouts?


Fish

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Welcome to the forums, Fish.

 

I'll have to check -- although I'm sure others will help you.

 

Gerald Ford is an Eagle Scout. I think I read that Bill Clinton was a Cub Scout (but can't recall.)

 

If you add Senators and U.S. Congressmen, the list becomes quite a bit longer.

 

You may also want to check the national BSA website www.scouting.org and look under media or do a search. Or go to Scouter.com and search there. There are a lot of web sites that list prominent former Scouts and the information is very good.

 

DS

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All Presidents accepted honary Presidents of the Boy Scouts. I know Ford was (is) and Eagle Scout and Carter was a Scoutmaster and Committee Chair for a Boy Scout troop in Georgia. I know that Kennedy was a Scout. I don't know if the record books keep track of Cub Scout participation by Presidents.

 

(above was from my memory, below from web sources)

 

George Bush II was a Cub Scout. Johnson organized a unit (Post 1200) in Washington, D.C., which was chartered to the House of Representatives for page boys working in the U.S. Congress. Roosevelt was the first to enter the White House with a record as an active Scout leader. He was president of the Greater New York Councils of the Boy Scouts of America.

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