On the Shelf
By Paul Guffin
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Presidential Birthdays
This week we (at least in this country) observed Presidents’ Day. When I was a bit younger, we would observe both Lincoln’s birthday (February 12) and Washington’s birthday (February 22). However, those two birthdays eventually got smooshed together, and is observed not on either’s actual birthday, but on the third Monday in February. But, my mind got to wondering: what about all those other U.S. presidents? Didn’t they also have birthdays? So, a bit of research provided the following information:
| Month | Date & Year | President | Order of Office | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7, 1800 | Millard Fillmore | 13 | Cayuga County, NY |
| 9, 1913 | Richard Nixon | 37 | Yorba Linda, CA | |
| 29, 1843 | William McKinley | 25 | Niles, OH | |
| 30, 1882 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 32 | Hyde Park, NY | |
| February | 6, 1911 | Ronald Reagan | 40 | Tampico, IL |
| 9, 1773 | William Henry Harrison | 9 | Charles City County, VA | |
| 12, 1809 | Abraham Lincoln | 16 | Hardin County, KY | |
| 22, 1732 | George Washington | 1 | Pope’s Creek, VA | |
| March | 15, 1767 | Andrew Jackson | 7 | Waxhaw, NC |
| 16, 1751 | James Madison | 4 | Port Conway, VA | |
| 18, 1837 | Grover Cleveland | 22/24 | Caldwell, NJ | |
| 29, 1790 | John Tyler | 10 | Charles City County, VA | |
| April | 13, 1743 | Thomas Jefferson | 3 | Goochland County, VA |
| 23, 1791 | James Buchanan | 15 | Cove Gap, PA | |
| 27, 1822 | Ulysses S. Grant | 18 | Point Pleasant, OH | |
| 28, 1758 | James Monroe | 5 | Westmoreland County, VA | |
| May | 8, 1884 | Harry S. Truman | 33 | Lamar, MO |
| 29, 1917 | John F. Kennedy | 35 | Brookline, MA | |
| June | 12, 1924 | George H.W. Bush | 41 | Milton, MA |
| 14, 1946 | Donald Trump | 45 | New York, NY | |
| July | 4, 1872 | Calvin Coolidge | 30 | Plymouth, VT |
| 6, 1946 | George W. Bush | 43 | New Haven, CT | |
| 11, 1767 | John Quincy Adams | 6 | Braintree, MA | |
| 14, 1913 | Gerald Ford | 38 | Omaha, NE | |
| August | 4, 1961 | Barack Obama | 44 | Honolulu, HI |
| 10, 1874 | Herbert Hoover | 31 | West Branch, IA | |
| 19, 1946 | Bill Clinton | 42 | Hope, AR | |
| 20, 1833 | Benjamin Harrison | 23 | North Bend, OH | |
| 27, 1908 | Lyndon B. Johnson | 36 | Stonewall, TX | |
| September | 15, 1857 | William Howard Taft | 27 | Cincinnati, OH |
| October | 1, 1924 | Jimmy Carter | 39 | Plains, GA |
| 4, 1822 | Rutherford B. Hayes | 19 | Delaware, OH | |
| 5, 1829 | Chester A. Arthur | 21 | Fairfield, VT | |
| 14, 1890 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 34 | Denison, TX | |
| 27, 1858 | Theodore Roosevelt | 26 | New York, NY | |
| 30, 1735 | John Adams | 2 | Braintree, MA | |
| November | 2, 1795 | James Knox Polk | 11 | Mecklenburg County, NC |
| 2, 1865 | Warren G. Harding | 29 | Corsica, OH | |
| 19, 1831 | James A. Garfield | 20 | Moreland Hills, OH | |
| 20, 1942 | Joe Biden | 46 | Scranton, PA | |
| 23, 1804 | Franklin Pierce | 14 | Hillsborough, NH | |
| 24, 1784 | Zachary Taylor | 12 | Orange County, VA | |
| December | 5, 1782 | Martin Van Buren | 8 | Kinderhook, NY |
| 28, 1856 | Woodrow Wilson | 28 | Staunton, VA | |
| 29, 1808 | Andrew Johnson | 17 | Raleigh, NC |