U.S. Presidents by State

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

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.

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

this comment makes me think that you have a very nasal voice.

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

But he was Governor of Massachusetts, hence why the Bay State was the base of his politics. Romney has served as governor and senator of different states, and neither of which is the one he was born in, so politics has less to do with where you were born and more of where you choose to live and build yourself.

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??

No, they're not. Andrew Johnson was born in North Carolina but he was a politician in Tennessee. If this list was just "which states were the presidents born in" it would be a very different list. Obama, Biden, and both Bushes would have different states listed for example.

He was living there when he ran for President I believe.

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

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).

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?

That's not what political base means.

First off, no he wasn't. Second, this quiz is about where their political base of operations was. Obama was a senator from Illinois, hence why that's the answer here. It says so in the description if you bothered reading it at all.