{"id":273,"date":"2008-05-10T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=273"},"modified":"2011-06-30T15:57:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:57:59","slug":"famous-scouts-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"Famous Scouts – Politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Here are a few<\/span> Boy Scouts that grew up and became well known polititians, Senators, governors, and even presidents. (Unfortunately, a couple of these seemed to have forgotten the twelve points of the Scout Oath after they grew up.)<\/p>\n

William Bennett – Former Secretary of Education (Eagle Scout)
\nJames Brady – Former Press Secretary to President Reagan (Eagle Scout)
\nWillaim Sessions – Former FBI Director (Eagle Scout)
\nMurphy J. “Mike” Foster – Governor of Louisiana (Eagle Scout)
\nGary Locke – Governor of Washington State (Eagle Scout)
\nRick Perry – Governor, State of Texas (pictured above)<\/p>\n

Gary Anderson – U.S. Representative from New York (Eagle Scout)
\nBill Alexander – U.S. Representative from Arkansas (Eagle Scout)
\nCharles Bennett – U.S. Representative from Florida (Eagle Scout)
\nWilliam Dannemeyer – U.S. Representative from California (Eagle Scout)
\nDaniel J. Evans – Former US Senator and Governor from the state of Washington (Eagle Scout)
\nRichard Lugar – U.S. Senator from Indiana (Eagle Scout)
\nSam Nunn – U.S. Senator from Georgia (Eagle Scout)
\nJ.J. Pickle – U.S. Representative from Texas (Eagle Scout)<\/p>\n

Bill Clinton – President of the United States
\nGeorge W. Bush – President of the United States
\nJohn F. Kennedy – President of the United States
\nGerald R. Ford<\/span> – President of the United States (the first Eagle Scout to become President!)<\/p>\n

Do you know of any more to add to this list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are a few Boy Scouts that grew up and became well known polititians, Senators, governors, and even presidents. (Unfortunately, a couple of these seemed to have forgotten the twelve points of the Scout Oath after they grew up.) William Bennett – Former Secretary of Education (Eagle Scout) James Brady – Former Press Secretary to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scouting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2548,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/2548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}