Burial Places of Former US Presidents

Forty-five men have served as President of the United States since George Washington first assumed the office in 1789. Of these, forty  have passed away. Their burial sites are located across eighteen states along with one at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. The state with the most presidential graves is Virginia with seven, two of which are at Arlington National Cemetery. New York has six presidential graves. Close behind this, Ohio is the location of five presidential burial sites. Tennessee was the location of three presidential burials. Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, and California each have two presidents buried in their borders. The states that each have only one burial site are: Kentucky, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Vermont, Missouri, Kansas, and Michigan. The president who died the youngest was John F. Kennedy. He was only 46 when he was assassinated during his first term in office. Two presidents lived to be 93: Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford;  George H.W. Bush was 94 when he died in November of 2018, and at 95 years old, the longest lived president today is Jimmy Carter, born October 1, 1924. Official State Funerals Since the death of George Washington in 1799, Americans have marked the death of many of the US presidents with periods of national mourning and state funerals. This is especially the case when the presidents have died while in office. When John F. Kennedy was assassinated, his flag-draped coffin traveled on a horse-drawn caisson from the White House to the US Capitol where hundreds of thousands of mourners came to pay their respect. Three days after being killed, a mass was said at St. Matthews Cathedral and his body was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery in a state funeral attended by dignitaries from around the world. Following is a list of each of the deceased US presidents in order of their presidencies along with the location of their grave sites: Burial Places of the Presidents George Washington 17321799 Mount Vernon, Virginia John Adams 17351826 Quincy, Massachusetts Thomas Jefferson 17431826 Charlottesville, Virgnina James Madison 17511836 Mount Pelier Station, Virginia James Monroe 17581831 Richmond, Virginia John Quincy Adams 17671848 Quincy, Massachusetts Andrew Jackson 17671845 The Hermitage near Nashville, Tennessee Martin Van Buren 17821862 Kinderhook, New York William Henry Harrison 17731841 North Bend, Ohio John Tyler 17901862 Richmond, Virginia James Knox Polk 17951849 Nashville, Tennessee Zachary Taylor 17841850 Louisville, Kentucky Millard Fillmore 18001874 Buffalo, New York Franklin Pierce 18041869 Concord, New Hampshire James Buchanan 17911868 Lancaster, Pennsylvania Abraham Lincoln 18091865 Springfield, Illinois Andrew Johnson 18081875 Greenville, Tennessee Ulysses Simpson Grant 18221885 New York City, New York Rutherford Birchard Hayes 18221893 Fremont, Ohio James Abram Garfield 18311881 Cleveland, Ohio Chester Alan Arthur 18301886 Albany, New York Stephen Grover Cleveland 18371908 Princeton, New Jersey Benjamin Harrison 18331901 Indianapolis, Indiana Stephen Grover Cleveland 18371908 Princeton, New Jersey William McKinley 18431901 Canton, Ohio Theodore Roosevelt 18581919 Oyster Bay, New York William Howard Taft 18571930 Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia Thomas Woodrow Wilson 18561924 Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C. Warren Gamaliel Harding 18651923 Marion, Ohio John Calvin Coolidge 18721933 Plymouth, Vermont Herbert Clark Hoover 18741964 West Branch, Iowa Franklin Delano Roosevelt 18821945 Hyde Park, New York Harry S Truman 18841972 Independence, Missouri Dwight David Eisenhower 18901969 Abilene, Kansas John Fitzgerald Kennedy 19171963 Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia Lyndon Baines Johnson 19081973 Stonewall, Texas Richard Milhous Nixon 19131994 Yorba Linda, California Gerald Rudolph Ford 19132006 Grand Rapids, Michigan Ronald Wilson Reagan 19112004 Simi Valley, California George H. W. Bush 19242018 College Station, Texas