Does the president elected in 2040 have a wikipedia page yet?

[brucejoel99]

Who knows? Trump & Biden surely would've had one in 2000, but Obama wouldn't have. Clinton wouldn't have had one yet in '72, but W. (as the failed congressional candidate son of the VP-elect) might've had one in '80, & as a Congressman, Poppy definitely would've had one in '68.

It just depends on who it ends up being, & we obviously won't know who that will be for quite some time. For every AOC that it could be, there's a middle-schooler that it could also be.

[brucejoel99]

Would Bill Clinton and George W. Bush have gotten theirs around their failed congressional runs, for example?

Based on my understanding of how Wikipedia does these things, probably not, as I think there's a policy that people who only run for office aren't deemed sufficiently noteworthy. So that would mean that they'd have to do something besides lose a congressional election. For Bush, I guess that means owning the Rangers, and for Clinton, becoming AG of Arkansas?

W. would've also been the son of the VP-elect at that time, & Greg Pence got a Wikipedia page for running for Congress & being Pence's brother, so I gather that W. would likely have one.

[brucejoel99]

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1904 - Calvin Coolidge - This county clerk of courts turned failed school board candidate wouldn't have an article.

*1928 - Harry Truman - The chief executive of Jackson County, Missouri, might have at least a stub.