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Presidents by State Quiz

Name the state of origin for each U.S. president.

IMPORTANT: READ BEFORE COMMENTING The place of their political base, not necessarily their birth place
Quiz by Quizmaster - Nov 09, 2016

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President	State
Donald Trump
Barack Obama
George W. Bush
Bill Clinton
George Bush Sr.
Ronald Reagan
Jimmy Carter
Gerald R. Ford
Richard Nixon
Lyndon B. Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Harry Truman
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
Warren Harding
Woodrow Wilson
William Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
William McKinley
Benjamin Harrison

President	State
Grover Cleveland
Chester A. Arthur
James Garfield
Rutherford B. Hayes
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Johnson
Abraham Lincoln
James Buchanan
Franklin Pierce
Millard Fillmore
Zachary Taylor
James K. Polk
John Tyler
William Henry Harrison
Martin Van Buren
Andrew Jackson
John Quincy Adams
James Monroe
James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
George Washington

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dwo

level 79

May 1, 2011

Can you also do a quiz of the presidents' birth states?

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vb3347

level 14

Jul 25, 2011

Go figure, managed to remember Zachary Taylor but not Reagan!

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Lemurlover3

level 45

Feb 25, 2012

Turns out I have no idea where presidents are from.

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Thorodin

level 43

Mar 5, 2013

I believe US Grant was born in Ohio.

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zenjohn

level 43

Jan 11, 2015

True, but he lived in both Missouri and Illinois before he was president. He was living in Illinois when he ran for president.

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roger65

level 14

May 5, 2013

Obama was from Honolulu.....

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MiyafujiYoshika

level 43

Feb 24, 2015

But his political career is based in Chicago

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SCorona

level 35

Jun 7, 2013

Herbert Hoover was not from California. He was from Iowa. They have a memorial for him in West Branch,Iowa. Grant wood,the painter,did a painting about Herbert Hoover's birthplace in Iowa.

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Eliotbliss

level 61

Jun 26, 2013

But he grew up on the west coast and made his political base in California. He was the president of Stanford, thus the Hoover tower there. Not very unlike Obama being born in Hawaii but running as president from Illinois.

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kalbahamut

level 70

Nov 5, 2014

Or Reagan being born in Illinois but running as the former governor of California.

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stubblyhead

level 65

Dec 2, 2016

Hoover was never president of Stanford University. He was a member of its first graduating class and kept strong ties to it throughout his life, but he did not hold that position.

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pastorjamesriddle

level 57

Feb 16, 2017

I knew his political base was in CA, but the Stanford info is interesting since Thomas Sowell, a man with much more conservative economic leanings than Hoover himself, would have been a Hoover Institute scholar at Stanford for so long.

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plattitude

level 76

Oct 21, 2013

Got all but Ford with a guess or two, but had to run through about 25 states to get Ford. And of course, it was Michigan. Really should have made that connection before...

To the previous commentors, read the instructions: Name the state of origin for each U.S. president. (The place of their political base, not necessarily their birth place.)

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JBlouw1850

level 47

Feb 16, 2017

Not related to Henry. Born Leslie King and was given the name Gerald Ford by his stepfather. Also from Grand Rapids, not Detroit.

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buck1017

level 72

Feb 13, 2014

Thank you Die Hard With a Vengence for the Chester A. Arthur answer. "Find out who the 21st president is." "Chester A. Arthur...did you know he was the collector of customs right here in New York?" Awesome!

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ryanvhs

level 16

Mar 7, 2014

39, not bad.

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Terradraconum

level 40

Jul 28, 2014

At first I put "nobody knows" for where Obama was born, but then I read the footnote......

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kalbahamut

level 70

Nov 5, 2014

I'm pretty sure his mother, grandparents, those that printed his birth announcement in the newspaper, and the government officials who verified his legitimate birth certificate was on file could all help you find Hawaii on the map if you're not sure where it is yourself.

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TheQuizzler

level 55

Feb 1, 2016

Do you think those same officials could help you find your way to a sense of humor?

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cosmokim

level 55

Jul 9, 2016

Savage

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kalbahamut

level 70

Feb 16, 2017

Would be a lot more likely than you finding any sense at all, Quizzler.

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Bernard62601

level 63

Mar 4, 2017

I love seeing kalbahamut triggered. I wish I could of saw their face when Trump won.

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kalbahamut

level 70

Nov 5, 2014

Got the first seven and last six (hint for the early ones: Virginia and Massachusetts). Rest were mostly a crap shoot. C'mon this is way harder than some of my other leaders quizzes. Also, though I got it, was Bush Sr.'s power base really in Texas? I thought he was a Mass resident. I know the family has ties to many states. Not really important...

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samiam1955

level 57

Aug 2, 2016

Actually, the Bush family roots are in CT. Bush Sr's father, Prescott Bush, was a US senator from CT. The family 'compound' is in Kennebunkport, ME. But GHWB got into the awl bidness in Texas, where he tried to change his New England blueblood accent to a Texas accent, without much success. His son GWB did it quite a bit better, but you could tell if you listen close enough that he is still not really a Texan.

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msnavarro

level 75

Jan 18, 2015

Zachary Taylor lived in Kentucky, had a plantation in Kentucky, and is buried in Kentucky. As a General he was all over US territories including one of three homes in Louisiana. It took me a lot of research to even find the Louisiana connection so I'll stick with his final resting place.

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ander217

level 71

Feb 16, 2017

The quiz is about the location of his political base, not where he was born or buried. He was living in Louisiana at the time of his election to the presidency, and had been a resident there for 25 years. Taylor didn't really have a political career prior to running for president, and while you are correct that he was "all over the US territories" during his military service, he was living in Louisiana when his political career began.

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earthquiz

level 28

Mar 7, 2015

Herbert Hoover was from West Branch, Iowa (I live there!) !

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Hdny42

level 44

Mar 13, 2015

First of all, to Kalabahamut: I find I very much enjoy your quiz commenrs and that I agree with you a lot. I know when I see your name that the post will be worth reading. Secondly, I love this quiz. Where a politician makes his or her home and political base should always take precedence over where he or she was born unless it is the same place. Ronald Reagan has always and will always be remembered as a Californian even though he was born in IL and was already an adult when he headed for Hollywood. Abraham Lincoln was born in KY and raised in IN but he chose to make IL his home an that's the reason it is the 'Land of Lincoln.' And President Obama (regardless of what certain lying fools like Donald Trump and Orly Taitz say), although being born in Hawaii, has made Illinois his home.

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coalroller

level 4

Jun 4, 2017

No, he was born in Kenya.

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AKKitchen

level 46

Mar 27, 2015

Franklin Pierce University is in New Hampshire, making that one a little easier to remember.

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Jacktheguy

level 71

Feb 16, 2017

There's also a James Madison University in Virginia. About an hour away from where I live.

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ggellerman

level 22

Mar 30, 2015

Herbert Hoover was from Iowa

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samiam1955

level 57

Aug 2, 2016

... but moved to California, where he lived when he was elected.

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maxzahner

level 28

Oct 19, 2015

lol soooo many from OHIO

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KnowlegeOfPresidentsDude122

level 16

Nov 19, 2015

100%

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DanOfMan

level 33

Apr 8, 2016

Got a few by guessing Virginia for all of the older ones.

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MyMnyader

level 59

Jun 16, 2016

Dwight D.Eisenhower ran for President from New York not Kansas

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Trolololz

level 66

Jul 6, 2016

Coolidge is from VT and grew up there.

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samiam1955

level 57

Aug 2, 2016

But he was the mayor of Northampton, MA when he first went into politics, and then became governor of MA. However, he took the oath of office in his family house in Plymouth Notch, VT, after Harding died. His father, who was a justice of the peace, administered the oath.

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Findlay

level 67

Oct 27, 2016

Well, you'll get over a quarter of them just typing 'New York' or 'Ohio'. Throw Virginia and Massachusetts in and you'll get a decent score. Considering their populations, California and Texas are underperforming in the presidential stakes, particularly since Texas only got two and three quite recently.

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faolchu1014

level 35

Jan 24, 2017

READ THE NOTICE! It's about where they began their political careers, not where they were born. Reagan was the only president born in Illinois, for example, but Lincoln, Obama, and Grant were all based there.

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JBlouw1850

level 47

Feb 16, 2017

And to top it all off, Reagan's base was in California

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Elan

level 55

Feb 16, 2017

Actually, Barack Obama was born in Hawaii...It's okay that you made that mistake, not everyone is as smart as me.

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Moosefight

level 67

Feb 16, 2017

Most can still read though, which is doubtful in your case.

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Moosefight

level 67

Feb 16, 2017

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson really helped with, well, everything up to Andrew Jackson, inclusive.

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SomeBroncho

level 28

Mar 13, 2017

Using the same logic as the others (and I agree with it), Nixon ran from New York.

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DarthCaedus66

level 11

Jul 31, 2017

Guess no one wants to run for president from a political base waist-deep in potatoes and sugar beets...... When I'm old enough, I'm probably gonna run for president in the place I was born and raised:Idaho.

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Tomtrific

level 44

Aug 17, 2017

28/44 Had no clue on most of them, so I just typed in Ohio and Virginia on everyone, knowing that those two states produced a lot of presidents.

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Dyllan101

level 12

Aug 25, 2017

Obama was born in hawaii