Can You Ace This Quiz on Presidential Births?

Several U.S. Presidents were born in log cabins, but the last was James Garfield, born in a cabin near Orange Township, Ohio, in 1831. You can still visit a replica today, in what is now Moreland Hills. Contrary to popular belief, log cabins aren’t a style that started in colonial America. The colonists imported the idea from Europe, particularly Sweden.

Only one U.S. President hails from the Garden State: Grover Cleveland. Cleveland was born in Caldwell, where he lived for five years before moving to upstate New York. Cleveland’s early political career took off in New York, too; he became mayor of Buffalo in 1881, and was elected the state’s governor shortly after. However, after finishing his second term as President, he retired in Princeton.

The United States was solidly into the 20th century before it elected a President born west of the Mississippi River. That distinction went to Herbert Hoover, the country's 31st President, elected in 1928. Hoover was born in 1874 in West Branch, Iowa, and spent his teen years even further west, in Oregon. Since then, seven other Presidents have been born west of the Mississippi.

July 4 commemorates the birth of American independence and the birth of Calvin Coolidge, the country's 30th President. Coolidge, who was born in 1872, is the only commander-in-chief who shares a birthday with the United States, although three former Presidents — John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe — died on the Fourth of July.

Surprisingly, many of the early U.S. Presidents weren't actually born in the United States. Martin Van Buren, born in 1782, was the first President who was a United States citizen at birth. (All the Presidents prior to that were born British subjects.) At 5 feet, 6 inches, President Van Buren was known as "The Little Magician” and argued for states' rights over a strong federal government.