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The newly elected president of Austria has had a published article in *Econometrica.* https://www.jstor.org/stable/1914006?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

AHC: Get a POTUS who could have been published there...

The only economists I can think of who were prominent in American electoral politics were Paul Douglas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Douglas Phil Gramm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Gramm and Dick Armey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Armey And I don't see any of them as particularly likely presidential prospects, though Gramm did run in 1996.

Of course as Greg Mankiw notes, http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2006/12/economist-politicians.html there are not all that many economists in the US anyway ("Only about 1000 econ PhDs are awarded each year, and only about half these are U.S. citizens") so maybe we shouldn't be surprised there are so few in elective office.
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