14 Famous People Who Failed The Bar

Failed the Illinois bar exam, seemed to do OK.

Bar exam: Hard.

Signing a declaration of war against Germany: No sweat.

Despite passing in Arkansas, she failed in D.C., signaling the beginning of the end of her short-lived career.

Named partner at Quinn Emmanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, Supreme Court arguer, former dean of Stanford Law School, and California bar exam failure.

Luckily for Brown, failing the California bar the first time around didn't disqualify him from becoming the state's governor.

Failed the New York bar, maybe because he kinda wishes wife beating was legal.

Good news: You can fail the Tennessee bar exam and still vote to authorize wars, ban same-sex marriage, and support the credit card industry!

Clearly failing the bar held back the former New York mayor from ever achieving anything of note his entire life.

Passed on the third try, was exceptionally handsome each time.

Good to know: Failing the bar can't even keep you off the SCOTUS bench.

The former mayor of Chicago failed the bar but managed to get elected six times. I'd say there's still hope for you, even if you do fail.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa went to an unaccredited law school AND failed the bar FOUR times. But he gets to hug the president so it's all good.

California voters didn't seem to mind that the former two-term governor failed the bar three times. That's good news for all of us.

Paterson, the blind former governor of New York, has both posed for photos with Anne Hathaway and used his bar failure to advocate for better exam accommodations for the visually impaired. What will you do if you fail?