Presidents by State of Birth

Virginia is the state that has produced the most presidents with 8 born there, followed by Ohio with 7, New York with 5 and Massachusetts with 4. The table below shows the states in order of having the most presidential birthplaces. For a complete list of birthplaces of the presidents, including the specific city (or county) where they were born visit our Presidential Birthplaces page.

State of birth Number of
Presidents
Born in Each State
U.S. Presidents From Each State
Virginia 8 George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, William Henry Harrison,
John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, Woodrow Wilson
Ohio 7 Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley,
William Howard Taft, Warren Harding
New York 5 Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Donald Trump
Massachusetts 4 John Adams, John Quincy Adams, John F. Kennedy, George Bush
North Carolina 3* Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, Andrew Johnson
Pennsylvania 2 James Buchanan, Joe Biden
Vermont 2 Chester Arthur, Calvin Coolidge
Texas 2 Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson
Arkansas 1 Bill Clinton
Connecticut 1 George W. Bush
California 1 Richard Nixon
New Jersey 1 Grover Cleveland
Nebraska 1 Gerald Ford
Iowa 1 Herbert Hoover
Missouri 1 Harry Truman
Hawaii 1 Barack Obama
Kentucky 1 Abraham Lincoln
New Hampshire 1 Franklin Pierce
Georgia 1 Jimmy Carter
Illinois 1 Ronald Reagan
South Carolina 1* Andrew Jackson

*Andrew Jackson is shown under North Carolina and South Carolina because his precise birth location along the border of those states in unknown.