Do You Know These Presidential Birthplaces?

James Garfield was the last U.S. President to begin life in a log cabin. He was born in Ohio in 1831 inside a cabin near Orange Township (now called Moreland Hills), which he called home until 1859. Other Presidents born in log cabins include Andrew Jackson, James Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, and Ulysses S. Grant.

Hyde Park, New York, is the site of Springwood, a 1793 estate where Franklin D. Roosevelt was born in 1882. The town is also home to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, which opened in 1941 as the first official presidential library. In 1943 and 1944, FDR delivered his Christmas Eve fireside chats from the library at his family estate in Hyde Park.

James Buchanan, America’s 15th President, was born in 1791 in Cove Gap, Pennsylvania, and is the only Pennsylvania-born President besides Joe Biden. In 1789, Buchanan’s father purchased a trading post that he renamed Stony Batter, after the family home in Ireland. The site is now a state park with a stone pyramid denoting where Buchanan was born.

Both John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams were born in the Boston suburb of Quincy, Massachusetts. The elder Adams was born in 1735 in a colonial house dating back to 1678. His son — the future sixth President — was born in 1767, mere feet away in a home located on the same historic property.

Andrew Johnson was born in 1808 in Raleigh, the capital city of North Carolina. His first home still stands, though not in its original location. It has been moved to a park where the National Park Service maintains it as a National Historic Site. Johnson is one of only two U.S. Presidents born in a state capital; the other is Barack Obama, who was born in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Not only was Martin Van Buren the first President born in New York, but he was the first President born a U.S. citizen. The seven Presidents before him were born when the United States was still a group of colonies controlled by Great Britain. By the time Van Buren was born in 1782, the United States had declared its independence, and he had birthright citizenship.

William Jefferson Clinton was born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas, and moved to nearby Hot Springs in 1953. After graduating from Yale Law School, Clinton returned to the state to teach at the University of Arkansas and serve first as attorney general and later as governor. Clinton won the presidency in 1992, becoming the first and only Arkansan to occupy the White House.

It took 31 Presidents to elect a person born west of the Mississippi River. That person was Herbert C. Hoover, a native of West Branch, Iowa. The small prairie town is located about 45 miles from the Illinois border and the Mississippi River. Since Hoover’s time, a handful of other Presidents have been born in the West, but he remains the only Iowan.

Andrew Jackson was born in 1767 in the Waxhaws region, which is right on the border between North and South Carolina. At the time, the area was unsurveyed, and historians still aren't sure in which state Jackson was technically born. During his life, he claimed South Carolina as his birthplace, but an aunt who was at his birth argued he was born in North Carolina.

Chester Alan Arthur, America's 21st President, was born in the small town of Fairfield, Vermont, just 15 miles from the Canadian border. In fact, he was born so close to the Canadian border that some conspiracy theorists at the time claimed he may have been ineligible to be President.

Ohioans occupied the Oval Office for a 12-year period, from 1869 to 1881. Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President, was born in Point Pleasant, and he was followed by Rutherford B. Hayes who was born in the town of Delaware. The 20th President, James A. Garfield, was born in Moreland Hills. Overall, seven Presidents have been born in Ohio.

Pictured here is the memorial home of America's first President, George Washington. In 1732, the future founding father was born on his father’s Pope Creek tobacco farm in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Though that home burned down in 1779, the National Park Service has reconstructed a colonial farm and memorial house on the site.

Theodore Roosevelt was born in a Manhattan brownstone on a tree-lined street in 1858. Teddy lived in the home until he was 14, when the neighborhood transitioned from being residential to commercial. The building was demolished in 1916, but rebuilt in the 1920s, accompanied by a newly constructed adjacent museum in the lot next door.

Richard Milhous Nixon was born in 1913 in a modest house in the city of Yorba Linda, California, outside Los Angeles. Nixon lived there for the first nine years of his life before moving to the nearby community of Whittier in 1922. After college he entered the wild world of politics, becoming a U.S. representative and then a senator from California. Nixon ran for the state's governorship and lost, before winning the presidency in 1968.

Before he became a Hollywood movie star and was elected President, Ronald Reagan was born in the small Illinois town of Tampico. The only Illinois-born President, Reagan grew up and went to college in the state before working in the Iowa radio industry. Eventually he parlayed his experience there into an acting gig, and the rest is history. Reagan went on to become governor of California, but the so-called “Great Communicator” hailed from the Midwest.

Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, near Hodgenville, Kentucky. He would go on to become the first U.S. President born outside the original 13 colonies, as well as the first born in a log cabin. Though the cabin no longer stands today, a replica has been built on the site where tourists can pay their respects to one of the country's most impactful leaders.

James Earl Carter was born on October 1, 1924, at the Wise Sanitarium in Plains, Georgia. The previous 38 Presidents had all been born at home, making Carter the first to be born in a hospital. Carter grew up in Georgia on his family's peanut farm before being elected to the nation's highest office in 1976.

Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii — only two years after Hawaii became a state. The 44th U.S. President is the only one born outside of the contiguous United States. Raised by his grandparents, Obama also spent a year of his childhood in the state of Washington and four years in Indonesia.

Texas, California, and Pennsylvania all have Presidents they can call their own, but Florida — the third-most-populous state in the country with 22 million residents — does not. Though several notable Floridians, including William H. Seward and Marco Rubio, have run for the presidency, none have been successful.

Eight of America’s 46 Presidents were born in Virginia, more than any other state. Four of them were among the first five leaders of the executive branch, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe. The other four are William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, and Woodrow Wilson. However, it has been more than 100 years since a Virginian sat in the Oval Office.