Deaths by State

  • More presidents died in New York than in any other state - nine.
  • 24 of the 39 presidents that have died did so in a state different than the one they were born in.
  • 13 of the 50 states (plus the District of Columbia) have been the site of a president's death.

Rank#President# Presidents
1New York9
5James Monroe
8Martin Van Buren
13Millard Fillmore
18Ulysses S. Grant
21Chester A. Arthur
25William McKinley
26Theodore Roosevelt
31Herbert Hoover
37Richard M. Nixon
2Washington, D.C.7
6John Quincy Adams
9William Henry Harrison
12Zachary Taylor
16Abraham Lincoln
27William H. Taft
28Woodrow Wilson
34Dwight D. Eisenhower
3Virginia4
1George Washington
3Thomas Jefferson
4James Madison
10John Tyler
4California3
29Warren G. Harding
38Gerald R. Ford
40Ronald Reagan
4Tennessee3
7Andrew Jackson
11James K. Polk
17Andrew Johnson
4Texas3
35John F. Kennedy
36Lyndon B. Johnson
41George H. W. Bush
7Massachusetts2
2John Adams
30Calvin Coolidge
7New Jersey2
20James A. Garfield
22 & 24Grover Cleveland
9Georgia1
32Franklin D. Roosevelt
9Indiana1
23Benjamin Harrison
9Missouri1
33Harry S. Truman
9New Hampshire1
14Franklin Pierce
9Ohio1
19Rutherford B. Hayes
9Pennsylvania1
15James Buchanan
-Still living6
39Jimmy Carter
42Bill Clinton
43George W. Bush
44Barack Obama
45Donald J. Trump
46Joe Biden

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