Martin Van Buren – Kinderhook, New York
Martin Van Buren was America’s eighth POTUS, serving after Andrew Jackson’s two terms from 1837 – 1841. Van Buren was Jackson’s Secretary of State in his first administration and his […]
John Jay – Katonah, New York
John Jay was America’s first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (not a President, but he was appointed by a President, so I think it counts). At the time of […]
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Boyhood Home, Library, and Museum – Abilene, Kansas Dwight David Eisenhower was our thirty-fourth president, inaugurated on January 20, 1953, and leaving office on that same day in 1961. I […]
James Buchanan – Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Last year, Richard Strauss published “Worst. President. Ever.: James Buchanan, the POTUS Rating Game, and the Legacy of the Least of the Lesser Presidents. It was released on October […]
Millard Filmore – East Aurora, New York
Millard Fillmore was our 13th POTUS, serving from July 1850 to March 1853. Fillmore became president upon the death of President Zachary Taylor who died after serving just over a […]
Frederick Douglas, Cedar Hill, Washington D.C.
“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong,” Frederick Douglas. While not a President of the United States, Frederick Douglas was a key figure […]
Woodrow Wilson – Washington DC
Woodrow Wilson was our 28th President and served from 1913 – 1921, He was known, most notably for promoting the League of Nations at the end of the Great War […]
Theodore Roosevelt – New York
Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay Long Island Theodore Roosevelt built his home on Oyster Bay, Long Island. After losing his first wife, Roosevelt left his infant daughter with his sister and […]
John F. Kennedy – Boston, Massachusetts
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was our thirty-fifth President of the United States. He was born and raised until age three at this home in Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1920, with three small […]
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt – Hyde Park New York
Hyde Park, New York is the home of the Hudson Valley Roosevelts and specifically the thirty-second President of the United States. The Hudson Valley Roosevelts (of Dutch lineage) is differentiated […]
Chester Arthur – Fairfield Vermont
Little remains of Chester Arthur, twenty-first POTUS who rose to the position in 1881 upon the death of President James Garfield. Arthur served out Garfield’s term and retired from political […]
Franklin Pierce – New Hampshire
Franklin Pierce was America’s fourteenth president and served from 1853 to 1857. The Pierce home in Hillsborough, New Hampshire is one of two homes preserved for President Pierce. He […]
James Polk – Columbia, Tennessee
James Polk, eleventh President of the United States (1845 – 1849) was the second POTUS to come from Tennessee and served as Commander in Chief during the Mexican War. […]
Andrew Johnson – Greenville, Tennessee
Andrew Johnson was America’s seventh POTUS, becoming president after Lincoln’s death in April 1865. Johnson, a Union Democrat from Tennessee joined Lincoln in 1864 as part of the “Unity” ticket, […]
Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage
The first of three Tennessean’s to be President of the United States, Andrew Jackson called Nashville his home. Today, Jackson’s estate, “The Hermitage” is well within the capital’s city limits, […]
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
John Adams and John Quincy Adams were the 2nd and 6th Presidents of the United States respectively. John Adams served as George Washington’s Vice President during his two administrations and […]