With only one exception since the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, no one has been elected president who took more than 14 years to climb from his first major elective office to election as either president or vice president.
Another exception is Joe Biden, who was elected to the Senate in 1972 and will become VP 36 years later.
Who's out now?
McCain, 26 years
Lieberman, 20 years
Giuliani, elected mayor of NYC in 1994
Huckabee, elected governor in 1996
Fred Thompson, elected to Senate in 1994
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