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Q. Which other states have sent more than one man to occupy the White House?
A. This is a tricky question to answer, because several individuals were technically natives of one
state, yet were raised or spent most of their adult life in another state. This list depicts which states the
Presidents are generally thought to be "from" -- also given are states of birth not usually
called "home" by those who moved.
New York - 6: Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, Millard Fillmore, Grover
Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (also, Woodrow Wilson a native)
Ohio - 6: Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, William McKinley, William H. Taft, Warren
Harding, and James A. Garfield
Virginia - 5: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe (also,
James Polk a native)
Massachusetts - 4: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Calvin Coolidge and John F. Kennedy (also, George Bush a native)
Tennessee - 3: Andrew Jackson, James Polk and Andrew Johnson
Texas - 3: Lyndon B. Johnson, George Bush and George W. Bush (also, Dwight D. Eisenhower a native)
California - 2: Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan
Additionally, these states have each had one resident elected President: Georgia (Jimmy Carter); Illinois (Abraham Lincoln); Indiana (Benjamin Harrison); Kansas (Dwight D. Eisenhower); Louisiana (James Polk); Michigan (Gerald Ford); Missouri (Harry S Truman); New Hampshire (Franklin Pierce); New Jersey (Woodrow Wilson); Oregon (Herbert Hoover); Pennsylvania (James Buchanan); and Vermont (Chester A. Arthur).
(Also, the following states of birth are noted: North Carolina - Andrew Jackson, James Polk and Andrew Johnson; Iowa - Herbert Hoover; Illinois - Ronald Reagan; Kentucky - Abraham Lincoln; Nebraska - Gerald Ford; New Jersey - Grover Cleveland; Texas - Dwight D. Eisenhower; and Vermont - Calvin Coolidge.)
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