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States shown by number of US Presidents born there.

These are lists of United States Presidents by place of birth.

By community

Birthplace President
Barboursville, Virginia Zachary Taylor
Blooming Grove, Ohio Warren G. Harding
Braintree, Massachusetts John Quincy Adams
Brookline, Massachusetts John F. 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]
Hillsborough, New Hampshire Franklin Pierce
Kenya 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
Nolin Creek, Kentucky[2] Abraham Lincoln
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
Moravia, New York Millard Fillmore
Tampico, Illinois Ronald Reagan
West Branch, Iowa Herbert Hoover
Westmoreland County, Virginia George Washington
James Monroe
Yorba Linda, California Richard Nixon

By state of birth

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) Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women & Children, Honolulu, Hawaii[7]
Illinois Ronald Reagan (1980) Graham Building, 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]

Presidents who did not primarily reside in their respective birth states

As of 2008, 19 out of 44 presidents (43%) were elected after officially residing in a different place than their birth.

President Birth state Home state
Andrew Jackson South Carolina Tennessee
William Henry Harrison   Virginia Ohio
James K. Polk North Carolina Tennessee
Zachary Taylor Virginia Louisiana
Abraham Lincoln Kentucky Illinois
Andrew Johnson North Carolina Tennessee
Ulysses S. Grant Ohio Illinois
Chester A. Arthur Vermont New York
Grover Cleveland New Jersey New York
Benjamin Harrison Ohio Indiana
President Birth state Home state
Woodrow Wilson Virginia New Jersey
Calvin Coolidge Vermont Massachusetts
Herbert Hoover Iowa California
Dwight D. Eisenhower Texas New York
Gerald Ford Nebraska Michigan
Ronald Reagan Illinois California
George H. W. Bush   Massachusetts Texas
George W. Bush Connecticut Texas
Barack Obama Hawaii Illinois

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, as well as American citizens, after the establishment of the United States:

See also

Notes and references

  1. ^ There is some dispute as to whether Arthur was in fact born in Canada. In addition, being born prior to the 1921 Cable Act, both of Arthur's parents were Canadian. Therefore, even the 14th Amendment did not make him a U.S. citizen until his father naturalized. See here for details.
  2. ^ The modern county in which Lincoln's birthplace lies, LaRue County, was not created until 1843.
  3. ^ All Massachusetts-born Presidents have been born in Norfolk County, but counties in Massachusetts are largely ceremonial and hold little meaning in that state.
  4. ^ Note: Bill Clinton's home in his first four years is sometimes called the Bill Clinton Birthplace, although the name is misleading.
  5. ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9506E7DB1139F937A15751C1A9669C8B63
  6. ^ http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM42NN
  7. ^ http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/barackobama.html
  8. ^ a b Born in the Waxhaw region on the North Carolina/South Carolina border. Exactly on which side of the border Jackson was born 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
  9. ^ 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; […].
  10. ^ According to the British Nationality Act 1948, Obama was from birth a Citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by descent (jus sanguinis) 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 in 1984 because the Kenyan Constitution prohibits dual citizenship for adults. Does Barack Obama have Kenyan citizenship? See also: Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories