Serious question, for those more knowledgeable of history than I am: are there any instances of those who had previous careers as entrepreneurial capitalists becoming successful presidents/prime-ministers/emperors/chiefs of nations? Successful in the sense of doing a half-decent job of things for their nations ....

(I got thinking about this because I had someone say to me yesterday, "It'll be good to get a BUSINESSMAN in there!" I can't remember what it was we were talking about ... !)