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States shown by number of US Presidents born there.
These are lists of United States Presidents by place of birth.
| Birthplace |
President |
| Barboursville, Virginia |
Zachary Taylor |
| Blooming Grove, Ohio |
Warren G. Harding |
| Braintree, Massachusetts |
John Quincy Adams |
| Brookline, Massachusetts |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| Caldwell, New Jersey |
Grover Cleveland |
| Charles City County, Virginia |
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler |
| Cincinnati, Ohio |
William Howard Taft |
| Cove Gap, Pennsylvania |
James Buchanan |
| Delaware, Ohio |
Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Denison, Texas |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Fairfield, Vermont |
Chester A. Arthur[1] |
| Hardin County,[2] Kentucky |
Abraham Lincoln |
| Hilsborough, New Hampshire |
Franklin Pierce |
| Honolulu, Hawaii |
Barack Obama |
| Hope, Arkansas |
Bill Clinton |
| Hyde Park, New York |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Kinderhook, New York |
Martin Van Buren |
| Lamar, Missouri |
Harry S. Truman |
| Lancaster County, South Carolina |
Andrew Jackson |
| Mercersburg, Pennsylvania |
James Buchanan |
| Milton, Massachusetts |
George H. W. Bush |
| Moreland Hills, Ohio |
James A. Garfield |
| New Haven, Connecticut |
George W. Bush |
| New York City, New York |
Theodore Roosevelt |
| Niles, Ohio |
William McKinley |
| North Bend, Ohio |
Benjamin Harrison |
| Omaha, Nebraska |
Gerald Ford |
| Pineville, North Carolina |
James K. Polk |
| Plains, Georgia |
Jimmy Carter |
| Plymouth, Vermont |
Calvin Coolidge |
| Point Pleasant, Ohio |
Ulysses S. Grant |
| Port Conway, Virginia |
James Madison |
| Quincy, Massachusetts |
John Adams |
| Raleigh, North Carolina |
Andrew Johnson |
| Shadwell, Virginia |
Thomas Jefferson |
| Stonewall, Texas |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Staunton, Virginia |
Woodrow Wilson |
| Summerhill, New York |
Millard Fillmore |
| Tampico, Illinois |
Ronald Reagan |
| West Branch, Iowa |
Herbert Hoover |
| Westmoreland, Virginia |
George Washington
James Monroe |
| Yorba Linda, California |
Richard Nixon |
[edit] By state
| Total |
State |
Presidents (Year elected) |
Places of birth |
| 8 |
Virginia |
George Washington (1788)
Thomas Jefferson (1800)
James Madison (1808)
James Monroe (1816)
William Henry Harrison (1840)
John Tyler (1841)
Zachary Taylor (1848)
Woodrow Wilson (1912) |
Popes Creek Plantation, Westmoreland County
Shadwell, Albemarle County
Port Conway, King George County
Westmoreland County
Berkeley Plantation, Charles City County (lived primarily in Ohio)
Charles City County
Barboursville, Orange County
House in Staunton, Virginia |
| 7 |
Ohio |
Ulysses S. Grant (1868)
Rutherford B. Hayes (1876)
James A. Garfield (1880)
Benjamin Harrison (1888)
William McKinley (1896)
William Howard Taft (1908)
Warren G. Harding (1920) |
Point Pleasant, Clermont County
Delaware, Delaware County
Orange Township, Cuyahoga County
North Bend, Hamilton County
Niles, Trumbull County
Cincinnati, Hamilton County
Near Blooming Grove, Morrow County |
| 4 |
Massachusetts[3] |
John Adams (1796)
John Quincy Adams (1824)
John F. Kennedy (1960)
George H. W. Bush (1988) |
John Adams Birthplace, Quincy, Massachusetts (then part of Braintree)
John Quincy Adams Birthplace, Quincy, Massachusetts
83 Beals Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
173 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts |
| New York |
Martin Van Buren (1836)
Millard Fillmore (1850)
Theodore Roosevelt (1901)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1932) |
Kinderhook, Columbia County
Summerhill, Cayuga County
28 E. 20th St., Manhattan, New York County
Hyde Park, Dutchess County |
| 2 |
North Carolina |
James K. Polk (1844)
Andrew Johnson (1865) |
Pineville, North Carolina
Casso's Inn, Raleigh, North Carolina |
| Texas |
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1952)
Lyndon B. Johnson (1963) |
208 East Day Street, Denison, Grayson County
Near the Pedernales River in Stonewall, Gillespie County |
| Vermont |
Chester A. Arthur (1881)
Calvin Coolidge (1923) |
Fairfield, Vermont
Plymouth, Vermont |
| 1 |
Arkansas |
William Jefferson Clinton (1992) |
Julia Chester Hospital, Hope, Arkansas [4] |
| California |
Richard Nixon (1968) |
A house in Yorba Linda, California |
| Connecticut |
George W. Bush (2000) |
Grace-New Haven Community Hospital[5], New Haven, Connecticut |
| Georgia |
Jimmy Carter (1976) |
The Wise Sanitarium [6] in Plains, Georgia |
| Hawaii |
Barack Obama (2008) |
Honolulu, Hawaii [7] |
| Illinois |
Ronald Reagan (1980) |
Tampico, Illinois |
| Iowa |
Herbert Hoover (1928) |
West Branch, Iowa |
| Kentucky |
Abraham Lincoln (1860) |
Sinking Spring Farm, near Hodgenville, Kentucky |
| Missouri |
Harry S. Truman (1945) |
Lamar, Missouri |
| Nebraska |
Gerald Ford (1974) |
3202 Woolworth Ave., Omaha, Nebraska |
| New Hampshire |
Franklin Pierce (1852) |
Hillsborough, New Hampshire |
| New Jersey |
Grover Cleveland (1884) |
First Presbyterian Church rectory, Caldwell, New Jersey |
| Pennsylvania |
James Buchanan (1856) |
Mercersburg, Pennsylvania |
| South Carolina[8] |
Andrew Jackson (1828) |
Lancaster County[8] |
[edit] Presidents who did not primarily reside in their respective birth states
[edit] Presidents born as British subjects
The following Presidents were born British subjects before the establishment of the United States:
The following Presidents were born British subjects after the establishment of the United States:
Both Arthur and Obama were born in the United States (though rumors have persisted that Arthur was born in Canada near the Vermont border), and obtained their status as British subjects through patrilineal jus sanguinis. Martin Van Buren was the first president not born a British subject.
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ There is some dispute as to whether Arthur was in fact born in Canada. See here for details.
- ^ The modern county in which Lincoln's birthplace lies, LaRue County, was not created until 1843.
- ^ All Massachusetts-born Presidents have been born in Norfolk County, but counties in Massachusetts are largely ceremonial and hold little meaning in that state.
- ^ Note: Bill Clinton's home in his first four years is sometimes called the Bill Clinton Birthplace, although the name is misleading.
- ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9506E7DB1139F937A15751C1A9669C8B63
- ^ http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM42NN
- ^ http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/barackobama.html
- ^ a b Born in the Waxhaw region on the North Carolina/South Carolina border. Exactly on which side of the border Jackson was born in is unknown; two cabins 100 m apart on each side of the border are both claimed to be his birthplace. Jackson himself claimed South Carolina as his birth state. http://www.postcardsfrom.com/stamp/stamp-sc.html
- ^ The Official Library of Congress Naturalization Record for William Arthur (father of Chester Arthur) states that William Arthur (who was born in Ireland and later emigrated to Canada) was not naturalized until 14 years after the birth of Chester Arthur. His father's British subjecthood, governed by English common law, was conferred via jus sanguinis; cf. William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England I.10 ("Of People, Whether Aliens, Denizens or Natives"), Oxford 1765-1769: […] all children, born out of the king’s ligeance, whose fathers were natural-born subjects, are now natural-born subjects themselves, to all intents and purposes, without any exception; […].
- ^ According to the British Nationality Act 1948, Obama was a Citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by descent through his father, a native of Kenya, which was then a British colony. This status reverted to Kenyan citizenship upon Kenya's independence in 1963, and Obama lost his Kenyan citizenship upon turning 23 because the Kenyan Constitution prohibits dual citizenship for adults. Does Barack Obama have Kenyan citizenship? See also: Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories
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