List of US Presidents by Home State 2024

Twenty-two states have produced the 45 presidents of the United States. Half of the US presidents came from four states: Virginia, Ohio, New York and Massachusetts. Eight are from Virginia, seven from Ohio, five from New York and four from Massachusetts.

Virginia:

• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison
• James Monroe
• William Henry Harrison

• John Tyler
• Zachary Taylor
• Woodrow Wilson

Ohio:

• Ulysses S. Grant
• Rutherford B Hayes
• James A. Garfield

• Benjamin Harrison
• William McKinley
• William Howard Taft

• Warren G. Harding

New York

• Martin Van Buren
• Millard Fillmore

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Donald Trump

Massachusetts

• John Adams
• John Quincy Adams
• John F. Kennedy

• George H.W. Bush

North Carolina

• James J. Polk
• Andrew Johnson

Texas

• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Lyndon B Johnson

Vermont

• Chester A. Arthur

• Calvin Coolidge

South Carolina

• Andrew Jackson

New Hampshire

• Franklin Pierce

Pennsylvania

• James Buchanan

Kentucky

• Abraham Lincoln

New Jersey

• Grover Cleveland

Iowa

• Herbert Hoover

Missouri

• Harry S. Truman

California

• Richard Nixon

Nebraska

• Gerald Ford

Georgia

• Jimmy Carter

Illinois

• Ronald Reagan

Arkansas

• Bill Clinton

Connecticut

• George W. Bush

Hawaii

• Barack Obama

Most of the 28 states that have not yet produced US presidents are in the West. The states that have not produced a US president are as follows: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.