Have there been any other US presidents besides JFK that were groomed from birth to be president?
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I don't believe there's any record of any other US President's parents specifically drilling them daily in politics with the express intent of raising a President, as Kennedy's father did. However, I did find three who were born into political families, and who showed they likely had political office as a primary goal growing up:
Note that I'm removing from consideration all Presidents born before the office existed, as there's no way their parents could have had ambitions for them at birth for an office that did not yet exist.
The 10th President, Tyler, was the eldest son of one of the "first families" of Virginia. His father was for a time Governor of Virginia, and the younger Tyler's career was certainly put on a political trajectory at a very early age.
Polk's family was closer to upper-middle class, but was politically well-connected, and even occasionally had Andrew Jackson over for dinner. The young Polk would clearly have been absorbing all the political talk from childhood. He was active in debate and school politics in college, and won his first elected public office in his early 20's.
LBJ's father was a state legislator, and LBJ himself was running for elected offices of various kinds as far back as High School, but I don't know of any evidence that his father was particularly zoned in on the Presidency for his son. It seems unlikely.
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I think that this is a kind of subject where it is hard to make any factual statements, and all such statements are suspect. A few things to consider:
- There are likely a lot more people who are groomed to be a president, a Nobel prize winner, an Olympic medalist, a top model, next Sviatoslav Richter... than those who actually become one.
- When one's parents are billionaires, one is typically groomed for big things, even not clearly defined.
- It is an easy claim to make post-hoc, in fact it is a common type of cognitive bias.
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