{"id":166941,"date":"2026-11-06T16:26:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T00:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/06\/first-president-to-attend-law-school-also-hated-it\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T16:26:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T00:26:56","slug":"first-president-to-attend-law-school-also-hated-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/06\/first-president-to-attend-law-school-also-hated-it\/","title":{"rendered":"First President To Attend Law School\u2026 Also Hated It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rutherford B. Hayes is the first U.S. president to get a law degree, but not the first one to attend a law school. Who was the first president to attend law school\u2026 before dropping out?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: Despite never graduating, he was ultimately admitted to the bar and there\u2019s a law school named after him today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See\u00a0the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/11\/first-president-to-attend-law-school-also-hated-it\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">First President To Attend Law School\u2026 Also Hated It<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/02\/GettyImages-1485724241-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Rutherford B. Hayes is the first U.S. president to get a law degree, but not the first one to attend a law school. Who was the first president to attend law school\u2026 before dropping out?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: Despite never graduating, he was ultimately admitted to the bar and there\u2019s a law school named after him today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See\u00a0the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/11\/first-president-to-attend-law-school-also-hated-it\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/11\/first-president-to-attend-law-school-also-hated-it\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rutherford B. Hayes is the first U.S. president to get a law degree, but not the first one to attend a law school. Who was the first president to attend law school\u2026 before dropping out? Hint: Despite never graduating, he was ultimately admitted to the bar and there\u2019s a law school named after him today. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":166942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}