Ohio is the birthplace of more US Presidents than any other state - eight.

From the Official Ohio State page at: http://www.state.oh.us/

More of our country's presidents came from Ohio than from any other state. Eight American presidents were elected from the Buckeye State, earning Ohio the nickname "The Mother of Presidents"

William Henry Harrison
9th President (1841 - died in office) - Whig Party
Birthplace: Berkeley Plantation, Virginia - Lived in North Bend, Ohio when elected president.
Facts about presidency:

Harrison arrived at his inauguration by train, the first President to do so.

In 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the decision to free the Africans taken from the slave ship Amistad.

Ulysses S. Grant
18th President (1869-1877) - Republican Party
Birthplace: Point Pleasant, Ohio
Facts about presidency:

The first transmission of human voice on telephone was successfully carried out by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876.

Also that year, U.S. Forces led by General A. Custer were destroyed at Little Big Horn by Native American forces commanded by Sitting Bull.

Rutherford B. Hayes
19th President (1877-1881) - Republican Party
Birthplace: Delaware, Ohio
Facts about presidency:

Saw the end of the Reconstruction Era in the South.

The first telephone was installed in the White House in 1879.

James A. Garfield
20th President (1881 - died in office) - Republican Party
Birthplace: Orange, Ohio
Facts about presidency:

In 1881, the American Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton.

Garfield was assassinated on July 2, 1881 - only six months after he took office.

Benjamin Harrison
23rd President (1889-1893) - Republican Party
Birthplace: North Bend, Ohio
Facts about presidency:

Oklahoma was opened to settlement.

The International Copyright Act passed.

The first Pan-American conference was held in 1889.

William McKinley
25th President (1897-1901 - died in office, second term) - Republican Party
Birthplace: Niles, Ohio
Facts about presidency:

The United States declared war on Spain.

Under William McKinley the United States gained its first overseas possessions - Puerto Rico and Guam.

William H. Taft
27th President (1909-1913) - Republican Party
Birthplace: Cincinnati, Ohio
Facts about presidency:

Admiral Robert Peary and Matthew Hensen reached the North Pole in 1909.

On July 2, 1909, the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was enacted giving Congress the power to lay and collect income taxes.

Warren G. Harding
29th President (1921-1923 - died in office) - Republican Party
Birthplace: Corsica, Ohio (now Blooming Grove)
Facts about presidency:

Harding was the first president to ride in an automobile to his inauguration.

He was the first American President to take office after World War I.

This page was created on 28 June 2000 at 5:40 pm and was last updated on 20 September 2006 at 10:16 am

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