U.S. Presidents by State

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

I found a quiz for you

Turns out I have no idea where presidents are from.

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.)

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

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!

39, not bad.

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...

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

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

lol soooo many from OHIO

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

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

Tough to say where his political "base" is though, as he never held elected office before becoming president. I most associate him with Kansas, so that answer made sense to me. Same with Trump. He's hated in New York and has less political power there than just about anywhere, but he never held office before being president, so it's still the place with which he is most associated. So I don't think the question is where Eisenhower was immediately before his presidency, but where he is most associated with. And that's Kansas.

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.

California's population is only relatively recently huge. We'll probably be seeing a lot more presidential contenders from it in the near future.

and considering Virginia, Massachusetts, and New York were already states at the start of the country, as opposed to several decades down the line, it makes sense that there are more presidents based in those states

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

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

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

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.

Could u accept state abbreviations? Plz?

Does anyone else just guess Virginia for all the early presidents hoping to get lucky?

Russia = Ohio. I see no spelling difference. :)

coolidge was born in vermont not massachusetts

Yes, noted Texan George W. Bush... 🙄

Hmm, let's see. Born in CT. Raised and attended school in both Midland, TX and Houston before finishing HS and college in Massachusetts. Got married in Texas. Both his daughters born in Texas. Was a pilot for the Texas National Guard. Was Governor of Texas from 1995-2000. Continues to live there to this day. Is that not enough Texas for you??

polk is north carolina so is andrew johnson

I thought Jackson was from SC

He was born there, but all his political appointments were in Tennessee.

For the 2nd column if you don't know, just guess Virginia, Ohio, Massachusetts, New York, Tennessee or Illinois and you'll do okay.

For the first column Texas, Ohio, New York and California are pretty safe bets.

His is probably the strangest, since he never held any office prior to becoming president, so there really isn't any political base of note. A case could be made for a few places I guess.

Taylor's a special case. But some good contemporary evidence is that when the Congress counted the electoral votes in joint session in 1849 the official congressional record identifies Taylor as being "of Louisiana" (see here: https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=021/llcg021.db&recNum=574).

Trump's political base ISN'T in New York. They hate him there, because he lived there they know him well. His political base is in the south where they don't know him as well

I went ahead and looked this up. His home state was New York when he ran in 2016, but in 2019 he moved his primary residence to Mar-a-Lago, which is in Florida. The Wikipedia page for the 2020 election lists Florida as his home state, with an added caveat including the residency change. Perhaps Florida could be an accepted answer?