MAP: See where every US president was born

When Donald Trump is sworn in as the President of the United States on Friday, he will become the 45th person to occupy the highest position in the U.S. government.

Going by place of birth, Virginia is at the top of the heap with eight presidents. Just 21 states are on the list, which is mapped out below.

Where each U.S. president was born

Here are some fun facts about the birthplace of the 44 men who have served — or are about to serve — as Commander in Chief.

• More than half of all U.S. presidents come from just four states: Virginia, Ohio, New York and Massachusetts account for 24 of the 44 men who have served in the role.
• There is a definite East Coast bias to the numbers. Just eight presidents were born west of the Mississippi River and only two (Richard Nixon in California and Barack Obama in Hawaii) were born west of the Rocky Mountains.
• Ten of the 13 original colonies are represented — Delaware, Maryland and Rhode Island are the only three to miss out.
• Seven of the first 12 presidents were born in Virginia. However, the state has produced just one Commander in Chief since: Woodrow Wilson, who served from 1913-21. The state was once the most populous in the union, until it was overtaken by New York in 1810.
• Similarly, seven of the 11 men who served between 1869-1923 were born in one state: Ohio. The state didn’t produce one president before or since that period.
• Vermont leads the pack in terms of presidents per capita. The small New England state has just 624,000 residents, the second-smallest population in the country (just ahead of Wyoming). Yet, it has produced two presidents: Chester A. Arthur and Calvin Coolidge.
• By contrast, the three most-populous states (California, Texas and Florida) boast just three presidents total, despite a combined population of more than 87 million.
• Texas has produced two presidents, but surprisingly it’s not the two men most commonly associated with the state. George H. W. Bush was born in Massachusetts, while his son was born in Connecticut. The two Texas natives to sit in the Oval Office are Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lyndon B. Johnson.

 

Here is the full list of presidents and their birth states:

1. George Washington (1789-97) Virginia
2. John Adams (1797-1801) Massachusetts
3. Thomas Jefferson (1801-09) Virginia
4. James Madison (1809-17) Virginia
5. James Monroe (1817-25) Virginia
6. John Quincy Adams (1825-29) Massachusetts
7. Andrew Jackson (1829-37) South Carolina
8. Martin Van Buren (1837-41) New York
9. William Henry Harrison (1841) Virginia
10. John Tyler (1841-45) Virginia
11. James K. Polk (1845-49) North Carolina
12. Zachary Taylor (1849-50) Virginia
13. Millard Fillmore (1850-53) New York
14. Franklin Pierce (1853-57) New Hampshire
15. James Buchanan (1857-61) Pennsylvania
16. Abraham Lincoln (1861-65) Kentucky
17. Andrew Johnson (1865-69) North Carolina
18. Ulysses S. Grant (1869-77) Ohio
19. Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-81) Ohio
20. James A. Garfield (1881) Ohio
21. Chester A. Arthur (1881-85) Vermont
22. Grover Cleveland (1885-89) New Jersey
23. Benjamin Harrison (1889-93) Ohio
24. Grover Cleveland (1893-97) New Jersey
25. William McKinley (1897-1901) Ohio
26. Theodore Roosevelt (1901-09) New York
27. William H. Taft (1909-13) Ohio
28. Woodrow Wilson (1913-21) Virginia
29. Warren G. Harding (1921-23) Ohio
30. Calvin Coolidge (1923-29) Vermont
31. Herbert Hoover (1929-33) Iowa
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-45) New York
33. Harry S. Truman (1945-53) Missouri
34. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-61) Texas
35. John F. Kennedy (1961-63) Massachusetts
36. Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-69) Texas
37. Richard M. Nixon (1969-74) California
38. Gerald R. Ford (1974-77) Nebraska
39. Jimmy Carter (1977-81) Georgia
40. Ronald Reagan (1981-89) Illinois
41. George Bush (1989-93) Massachusetts
42. William J. Clinton (1993-2001) Arkansas
43. George W. Bush (2001-2009) Connecticut
44. Barack Obama (2009-2017) Hawaii
45. Donald J. Trump (2017-) New York