ASPPA Connect Observes Presidents Day

In observance of Presidents Day on Monday, Feb. 17, the ASPPA offices will be closed. Accordingly, ASPPA Connect will not be published on Feb. 17. ASPPA Connect will reappear on Wednesday, Feb. 19.

 

To mark Presidents Day, here is a list of the presidents’ birthplaces. In some cases, however, the states where they are considered to have come from before taking office are different than the states where they were born; those are noted in parentheses.

 

George Washington: Westmoreland County, VA
John Adams: Quincy, MA
Thomas Jefferson: Albemarle County, VA
James Madison: Port Conway, VA
James Monroe: Westmoreland County, VA
John Quincy Adams: Quincy, MA
Andrew Jackson: Waxhaws, NC/SC (Tennessee)
Martin Van Buren, Kinderhook, NY
William Henry Harrison: Charles City County, VA (Ohio)
John Tyler: Charles City County, VA
James K. Polk: Mecklenburg County, NC (Tennessee)
Zachary Taylor: Orange County, VA
Millard Fillmore: Cayuga County, NY
Franklin Pierce: Hillsborough, NH
James Buchanan: Cove Gap, PA
Abraham Lincoln: LaRue County, KY (Illinois)
Andrew Johnson: Raleigh, NC (Tennessee)
Ulysses S. Grant: Point Pleasant. OH (Illinois)
Rutherford B. Hayes: Delaware, OH
James Garfield: Cuyahoga County, OH
Chester Arthur: Fairfield, VT (New York)
Grover Cleveland: Caldwell, NJ (New York)
Benjamin Harrison: North Bend, OH
William McKinley: Niles, OH
Theodore Roosevelt: New York, NY
William Howard Taft: Cincinnati, OH
Woodrow Wilson: Staunton, VA (New Jersey)
Warren G. Harding: Morrow County, OH
Calvin Coolidge: Plymouth, VT (Massachusetts)
Herbert Hoover: West Branch, IA
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Hyde Park, NY
Harry S. Truman: Lamar, MO
Dwight D. Eisenhower: Denison, TX
John F. Kennedy: Brookline, MA
Lyndon B. Johnson: Gillespie County, TX
Richard Nixon: Yorba Linda, CA
Gerald Ford: Omaha, NB (Michigan)
Jimmy Carter: Plains, GA
Ronald Reagan: Tampico, IL (California)
George H.W. Bush: Milton, MA (Maine and Texas)
Bill Clinton: Hope, AR
George W. Bush: New Haven, CT (Texas)
Barack Obama: Honolulu, HI (Illinois)
Donald J. Trump: New York, NY

 

The breakdown by state: 

 

Virginia: 8 (Fun fact: one its informal nicknames is "Mother of Presidents." Also, since 4 of the first 5 presidents were from Virginia, the presidency was once referred to as "the Virginia Dynasty.")

Ohio: 7

New York: 5

Massachusetts: 4

North Carolina: 3

Texas: 2

Vermont: 2

Each with 1: Arkansas, California (fun fact: NOT Ronald Reagan!), Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois (fun fact: NOT Abraham Lincoln!), Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania