Question: Who is the only U.S. president to have also served as president of a labor union?
Answer: Ronald Reagan. Long before the White House, Reagan served seven terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild, and in 1960, he led the union’s first industry-wide Hollywood strike, winning actors’ residual payments and a pension and health plan. He remains the only U.S. president to have led a labor union, a distinction that earned him a spot in the Labor Department’s Hall of Honor. See his Hall of Honor entry here.
