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U.S. Presidents by Place of Birth and Death

Can you name each selected President based on the place where they were born and the place where they died?
Answer must correspond to the yellow box
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Last updated: July 11, 2022
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First submittedJuly 11, 2022
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Birth
Death
Answer
Brookline, Massachusetts
Dallas
John F. Kennedy
Hodgenville, Kentucky
Washington, DC
Abraham Lincoln
Popes Creek, Virginia
Mount Vernon, Virginia
George Washington
Hope, Arkansas
(still alive)
Bill Clinton
Hyde Park, New York
Warm Springs, Georgia
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Tampico, Illinois
Los Angeles
Ronald Reagan
Border of North and South Carolina
Nashville
Andrew Jackson
Niles, Ohio
Buffalo, New York
William McKinley
Yorba Linda, California
New York City
Richard Nixon
Stonewall, Texas
Stonewall, Texas
Lyndon B. Johnson
Denison, Texas
Washington, DC
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Lamar, Missouri
Kansas City
Harry Truman
Milton, Massachusetts
Houston
George H. W. Bush
Charles City County, Virginia
Washington, DC
William Henry Harrison
Kinderhook, New York
Kinderhook, New York
Martin Van Buren
Plains, Georgia
(still alive)
Jimmy Carter
Quincy, Massachusetts
Quincy, Massachusetts
John Adams
New York City
Oyster Bay, New York
Theodore Roosevelt
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Level 87
Jul 12, 2022
I kept wondering why John Tyler didn't work for Charles City County, Va. (where he was in fact born), but forgot ... Tyler and Tippecanoe too! (Non-US folks will not get this.)
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Level 75
Aug 7, 2022
wat
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Level 81
Aug 10, 2022
Oof.

Short version: 1840 election: The Whig party had John Tyler and William Henry Harrison on the same ticket (for President and Vice Prez). Their campaign slogan (and associated song, as was the style at the time) was "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too."

This referred to Harrison, the "Hero of Tippecanoe" -- so-called because he led the US government forces to victory over native/aboriginal Americans at the 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe. And, well, Tyler too. I guess. He was on the ticket, after all.

The gimmick here was that the two folks on the ticket, Tyler and Harrison, were both born in Charles City County, VA.

So @mf3 remembered that Tyler was born there, and wondering why that didn't work as an answer. Until they remembered the slogan (even though they had it backward 😛), leading to the realization that: oh yeah. "Tippecanoe" (a.k.a.: William Henry Harrison) was also born there...!

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Level 70
Jul 13, 2022
It was interesting to see how sometimes one of the givens wouldn't mean all that much but the other would almost instantly trigger the right answer.
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Level 69
Aug 4, 2022
John Quincy Adams both born and died in Quincy, nice
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Level 72
Aug 7, 2022
Sadly, no. John Adams (the second president) was born and later died in Quincy. His son (the sixth president) was born in Braintree and died in Washington, in the Capitol itself, where he had suffered a stroke while representing his state as a member of the House of Representatives. He was, however, buried in Quincy, alongside his parents.
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Level 82
Aug 7, 2022
John Adams, Sr., was also born in Braintree, MA. He died at his family estate (Peacefield) in neighboring Quincy.
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Level 70
Aug 7, 2022
The Adamses married into the Quincy family, after which Quincy is named. So it's not direct but not a coincidence either.
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Level 81
Aug 10, 2022
Quincy was part of Braintree originally. Both JA and JQA were born in Quincy (Braintree). Quincy split off from Braintree in 1792.
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Level 75
Aug 7, 2022
Knew 2, guessed 9 others by copy/pasting well-known presidents in all the boxes (incl. Van Buren - the first US president born in the USA :) I think I deserve more than 1 point for all that effort :(
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Level 71
Aug 9, 2022
Great quiz idea! Any chance of a sequel?
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Level 74
Nov 2, 2023
The Red Fox of Kinderhook!