List of burial places of presidents and vice presidents of the United States
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Burial places of presidents and vice presidents of the United States are located across 23 states and the District of Columbia. Since the office was established in 1789, 45 people have served as President of the United States.[A] Of these, 39 have died. The state with the most presidential burial sites is Virginia with seven. Since its 1789 establishment, 49 people have served as Vice President of the United States. Of these, 43 have died. The state with the most vice-presidential burial sites is New York with 10. Fifteen persons have served as both president and as vice president. Of these, 14 have died, and each is listed in both tables. Altogether, 79 people have held either or both offices. Of these, 68 have died.
The first table below lists each deceased president’s place of burial, along with the date of death, and the order of their presidency. The second table lists each deceased vice president’s place of burial, along with the date of death, and the order of their vice presidency.
Presidential burial places[edit]
OP | President | Date of death | Burial place | City | State | Site image |
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1 | George Washington[1] | December 14, 1799[2] | Mount Vernon[B] | Fairfax County | Virginia | |
2 | John Adams[4] | July 4, 1826[5][C] | United First Parish Church[D] | Quincy | Massachusetts | |
3 | Thomas Jefferson[6] | July 4, 1826[7][C] | Monticello | Charlottesville | Virginia | |
4 | James Madison[9] | June 28, 1836 | Montpelier | Orange | Virginia | |
5 | James Monroe[10] | July 4, 1831 | James Monroe Tomb,[E]Hollywood Cemetery | Richmond | Virginia | |
6 | John Quincy Adams[11] | February 23, 1848 | United First Parish Church[F] | Quincy | Massachusetts | |
7 | Andrew Jackson[12] | June 8, 1845 | The Hermitage | Nashville | Tennessee | |
8 | Martin Van Buren[13] | July 24, 1862 | Kinderhook Reformed Church Cemetery | Kinderhook | New York | |
9 | William Henry Harrison[14] | April 4, 1841[15][G] | William Henry Harrison Tomb State Memorial[H] | North Bend | Ohio | |
10 | John Tyler[17] | January 18, 1862 | Hollywood Cemetery | Richmond | Virginia | |
11 | James K. Polk[18] | June 15, 1849 | Tennessee State Capitol[I] | Nashville | Tennessee | |
12 | Zachary Taylor[19] | July 9, 1850[G] | Zachary Taylor National Cemetery[J] | Louisville | Kentucky | |
13 | Millard Fillmore[20] | March 8, 1874 | Forest Lawn Cemetery | Buffalo | New York | |
14 | Franklin Pierce[21] | October 8, 1869 | Old North Cemetery | Concord | New Hampshire | |
15 | James Buchanan[22] | June 1, 1868 | Woodward Hill Cemetery | Lancaster | Pennsylvania | |
16 | Abraham Lincoln[23] | April 15, 1865[G] | Lincoln Tomb,[K]Oak Ridge Cemetery | Springfield | Illinois | |
17 | Andrew Johnson[24] | July 31, 1875 | Andrew Johnson National Cemetery | Greeneville | Tennessee | |
18 | Ulysses S. Grant[25] | July 23, 1885 | General Grant National Memorial[L] | New York | New York | |
19 | Rutherford B. Hayes[26] | January 17, 1893 | Spiegel Grove[M] | Fremont | Ohio | |
20 | James A. Garfield[27] | September 19, 1881[28][G] | James A. Garfield Memorial,[N]Lake View Cemetery | Cleveland | Ohio | |
21 | Chester A. Arthur[30] | November 18, 1886 | Albany Rural Cemetery | Menands | New York | |
22/24 [O] |
Grover Cleveland[31] | June 24, 1908 | Princeton Cemetery | Princeton | New Jersey | |
23 | Benjamin Harrison[32] | March 13, 1901 | Crown Hill Cemetery | Indianapolis | Indiana | |
25 | William McKinley[33] | September 14, 1901[G] | McKinley National Memorial[P] | Canton | Ohio | |
26 | Theodore Roosevelt[34] | January 6, 1919 | Youngs Memorial Cemetery | Oyster Bay | New York | |
27 | William Howard Taft[35] | March 8, 1930 | Arlington National Cemetery | Arlington | Virginia | |
28 | Woodrow Wilson[36] | February 3, 1924 | Washington National Cathedral | Washington | District of Columbia | |
29 | Warren G. Harding[37] | August 2, 1923[G] | Harding Tomb[Q] | Marion | Ohio | |
30 | Calvin Coolidge[38] | January 5, 1933 | Plymouth Notch Cemetery | Plymouth Notch | Vermont | |
31 | Herbert Hoover[39] | October 20, 1964 | Hoover Presidential Library | West Branch | Iowa | |
32 | Franklin D. Roosevelt[40] | April 12, 1945[G] | Springwood | Hyde Park | New York | |
33 | Harry S. Truman[41] | December 26, 1972 | Truman Presidential Library | Independence | Missouri | |
34 | Dwight D. Eisenhower[42] | March 28, 1969 | Eisenhower Presidential Center | Abilene | Kansas | |
35 | John F. Kennedy[43] | November 22, 1963[G] | Kennedy gravesite,[R]Arlington National Cemetery | Arlington | Virginia | |
36 | Lyndon B. Johnson[45] | January 22, 1973 | Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park | Stonewall | Texas | |
37 | Richard Nixon[46] | April 22, 1994 | Nixon Presidential Library | Yorba Linda | California | |
38 | Gerald Ford[47] | December 26, 2006 | Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum | Grand Rapids | Michigan | |
40 | Ronald Reagan[48] | June 5, 2004 | Reagan Presidential Library | Simi Valley | California | |
41 | George H. W. Bush[49] | November 30, 2018 | George Bush Presidential Library | College Station | Texas |
Notes[edit]
- ^ While by the conventional numbering of U.S. presidents there have been 46 presidents, only 45 individuals have held the office, as Grover Cleveland, the only one to serve non-consecutive terms, is counted twice – as the 22nd and the 24th president.
- ^ Interred at this site on October 7, 1837, after initially being interred in the “old tomb”, also at Mount Vernon.[3]
- ^ a b Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on July 4, 1826; Jefferson’s death occurred approximately five hours before Adams’s.[8]
- ^ Interred at this site in 1828, after initially being interred in the Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, Massachusetts.
- ^ Interred at this site on July 5, 1858, after initially being interred in the New York City Marble Cemetery.
- ^ Interred at this site in 1852, after initially being interred in the Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C., and then at Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, Massachusetts.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Died in office.
- ^ Interred at this site on July 7, 1841, after initially being interred in the Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.[16]
- ^ Interred at this site in 1893, after initially being interred in the Nashville City Cemetery, and then at Polk Place, also in Nashville, Tennessee.
- ^ Interred at this site in October 1850, after initially being interred in the Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C..
- ^ Between May 4, 1865, when it first arrived at Oak Ridge Cemetery, and September 26, 1901, Lincoln’s casket was moved 17 times, and opened on five occasions.
- ^ Interred at this site on April 17, 1897, after initially being interred in Riverside Park, New York City.
- ^ Interred at this site on April 3, 1915, after initially being interred in Oakwood Cemetery, Fremont, Ohio.
- ^ Interred at this site on May 19, 1890, after initially being interred in a temporary vault, also at Lake View Cemetery.[29]
- ^ Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms in office, and due to this is counted as the nation’s 22nd president and its 24th president.
- ^ Interred at this site in September 1907, after initially being interred in West Lawn Cemetery, Canton, Ohio.
- ^ Interred at this site in 1927, after initially being interred in Marion Cemetery Receiving Vault, Marion, Ohio.
- ^ Interred at this site on March 14, 1967, after initially being interred in a temporary grave, also at Arlington National Cemetery.[44]
Vice presidential burial places[edit]
OVP | Vice President | Date of death | Burial place | City | State | Site image |
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1 | John Adams[50] | July 4, 1826[5][a] | United First Parish Church[b] | Quincy | Massachusetts | |
2 | Thomas Jefferson[51] | July 4, 1826[7][a] | Monticello | Charlottesville | Virginia | |
3 | Aaron Burr[52] | September 14, 1836 | Princeton Cemetery | Princeton | New Jersey | |
4 | George Clinton[53] | April 20, 1812[c] | Old Dutch Churchyard[d] | Kingston | New York | |
5 | Elbridge Gerry[54] | November 23, 1814[c] | Congressional Cemetery | Washington, D.C. | ||
6 | Daniel Tompkins[55] | June 11, 1825 | St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery | New York City | New York | |
7 | John C. Calhoun[56] | March 31, 1850 | St. Phillips Churchyard | Charleston | South Carolina | |
8 | Martin Van Buren[57] | July 24, 1862 | Kinderhook Reformed Church Cemetery | Kinderhook | New York | |
9 | Richard M. Johnson[58] | November 19, 1850 | Frankfort Cemetery | Frankfort | Kentucky | |
10 | John Tyler[59] | January 18, 1862 | Hollywood Cemetery | Richmond | Virginia | |
11 | George M. Dallas[60] | December 31, 1864 | Churchyard of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | |
12 | Millard Fillmore[61] | March 8, 1874 | Forest Lawn Cemetery | Buffalo | New York | |
13 | William R. King[62] | April 18, 1853[c] | Live Oak Cemetery[e] | Selma | Alabama | |
14 | John C. Breckinridge[64] | May 17, 1875 | Lexington Cemetery | Lexington | Kentucky | |
15 | Hannibal Hamlin[65] | July 4, 1891 | Mount Hope Cemetery | Bangor | Maine | |
16 | Andrew Johnson[66] | July 31, 1875 | Andrew Johnson National Cemetery | Greeneville | Tennessee | |
17 | Schuyler Colfax[67] | January 13, 1885 | City Cemetery | South Bend | Indiana | |
18 | Henry Wilson[68] | November 22, 1875[c] | Old Dell Park Cemetery | Natick | Massachusetts | |
19 | William A. Wheeler[69] | June 4, 1887 | Morningside Cemetery | Malone | New York | |
20 | Chester Arthur[70] | November 18, 1886 | Albany Rural Cemetery | Menands | New York | |
21 | Thomas A. Hendricks[71] | November 25, 1885[c] | Crown Hill Cemetery | Indianapolis | Indiana | |
22 | Levi P. Morton[72] | May 16, 1920 | Rhinebeck Cemetery | Rhinebeck | New York | |
23 | Adlai Stevenson I[73] | June 14, 1914 | Evergreen Cemetery | Bloomington | Illinois | |
24 | Garret Hobart[74] | November 21, 1899[c] | Cedar Lawn Cemetery | Paterson | New Jersey | |
25 | Theodore Roosevelt[75] | January 6, 1919 | Youngs Memorial Cemetery | Oyster Bay | New York | |
26 | Charles W. Fairbanks[76] | June 4, 1918 | Crown Hill Cemetery | Indianapolis | Indiana | |
27 | James S. Sherman[77] | October 30, 1912[c] | Forest Hill Cemetery | Utica | New York | |
28 | Thomas R. Marshall[78] | June 1, 1925 | Crown Hill Cemetery | Indianapolis | Indiana | |
29 | Calvin Coolidge[79] | January 5, 1933 | Plymouth Notch Cemetery | Plymouth Notch | Vermont | |
30 | Charles G. Dawes[80] | April 23, 1951 | Rosehill Cemetery | Chicago | Illinois | |
31 | Charles Curtis[81] | February 8, 1936 | Topeka Cemetery | Topeka | Kansas | |
32 | John Nance Garner[82] | November 7, 1967 | Uvalde Cemetery | Uvalde | Texas | |
33 | Henry A. Wallace[83] | November 18, 1965 | Glendale Cemetery[84] | Des Moines | Iowa | |
34 | Harry S. Truman[85] | December 26, 1972 | Truman Presidential Library | Independence | Missouri | |
35 | Alben W. Barkley[86] | April 30, 1956 | Mount Kenton Cemetery | Paducah | Kentucky | |
36 | Richard Nixon[87] | April 22, 1994 | Nixon Presidential Library | Yorba Linda | California | |
37 | Lyndon B. Johnson[88] | January 22, 1973 | Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park | Stonewall | Texas | |
38 | Hubert Humphrey[89] | January 13, 1978 | Lakewood Cemetery | Minneapolis | Minnesota | |
39 | Spiro Agnew | September 17, 1996 | Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens[90] | Timonium | Maryland | |
40 | Gerald Ford[91] | December 26, 2006 | Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum | Grand Rapids | Michigan | |
41 | Nelson Rockefeller | January 26, 1979 | Rockefeller Family Cemetery[92][93] | Sleepy Hollow | New York | |
42 | Walter Mondale | April 19, 2021 | Unknown | — | ||
43 | George H. W. Bush | November 30, 2018 | George Bush Presidential Library | College Station | Texas |
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on July 4, 1826; Jefferson’s death occurred approximately five hours before Adams’s.[8]
- ^ Interred at this site in 1828, after initially being interred in the Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, Massachusetts.
- ^ a b c d e f g Died in office.
- ^ Interred at this site in 1908, after initially being interred in the Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C..
- ^ Interred at this site in 1882, after initially being interred at Chestnut Hill, his plantation near Selma, Alabama.[63]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ George Washington’s Mount Vernon
- ^ “George Washington”. The White House. Retrieved June 3, 2016.
- ^ Washington, George; Jefferson, Thomas; Peters, Richard (1847). Knight, Franklin (ed.). Letters on Agriculture. Washington, The editor; Philadelphia, W. S. Martien. pp. 177–180. OCLC 3347675. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
- ^ United First Parish Church
- ^ a b “John Adams”. The White House. Retrieved June 3, 2016.
- ^ Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
- ^ a b “Thomas Jefferson”. The White House. Retrieved June 3, 2016.
- ^ a b Glass, Andrew (July 3, 2016). “Jefferson and Adams die hours apart, July 4, 1826”. Arlington County, Virginia: Politico. Retrieved June 1, 2018.
- ^ Madison Family Cemetery
- ^ The American Nation
- ^ Getty Images
- ^ Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage Gardens
- ^ National Park Service: Martin van Buren
- ^ Ohio History Connection
- ^ “William Henry Harrison”. The White House. Retrieved June 3, 2016.
- ^ “President William Henry Harrison”. Association for the Preservation of Historic Congressional Cemetery. Archived from the original on 2014-10-12. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
- ^ The Robinson Library[Usurped!]
- ^ Smithsonian Magazine
- ^ National Cemetery Administration
- ^ Forest Lawn Cemetery
- ^ NewHampshire.com
- ^ Penn Live
- ^ Illinois Natural Resources: Historic Preservation Division
- ^ Andrew Johnson National Historic Site
- ^ General Grant National Memorial
- ^ Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums
- ^ Lake View Cemetery
- ^ “James Garfield”. The White House. Retrieved June 3, 2016.
- ^ Peskin, Allan (1978). Garfield: A Biography. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. p. 608. ISBN 0-87338-210-2.
- ^ Albany Rural Cemetery
- ^ A Princeton Companion
- ^ Government of Indiana
- ^ William McKinley Tomb
- ^ The Robinson Library[Usurped!]
- ^ Arlington National Cemetery
- ^ Washington National Cathedral
- ^ Ohio History Connection
- ^ Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation
- ^ Gravesite of President & Mrs Hoover
- ^ FDR Gravesite
- ^ Truman Library
- ^ Ike Eisenhower Foundation
- ^ Arlington National Cemetery
- ^ Levy, Claudia (March 16, 1967). “Kennedy’s Body Moved to Final Grave”. Washington Post.
- ^ Johnson Family Cemetery
- ^ Who’s Buried in Grant’s Tomb
- ^ Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum
- ^ The Guardian
- ^ “George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Center”. Archived from the original on 2019-02-06. Retrieved 2019-07-07.
- ^ Who’s Buried in Grant’s Tomb
- ^ Persons buried at the Monticello Graveyard
- ^ Princeton Alumni Weekly
- ^ NNDB
- ^ National Governors Association
- ^ Vice Presidential Profiles
- ^ Charleston Footprints
- ^ Biography.com
- ^ United States Senate
- ^ Hollywood Cemetery
- ^ NNDB
- ^ C-SPAN
- ^ Ruraol Southwest Alabama
- ^ Bennett, Jim (April 2014). “Alabamians With National Aspirations”. JCHA Newsletter. Birmingham, Alabama: Jefferson County Historical Association. Retrieved June 1, 2018.
- ^ National Park Service
- ^ National Governors Association
- ^ Andrew Johnson National Cemetery
- ^ South Bend Tribune
- ^ Waymarking
- ^ NNDB
- ^ All Over Albany
- ^ NNDB
- ^ NNDB
- ^ Pantagraph
- ^ NNDB
- ^ Theodore Roosevelt’s Gravesite
- ^ NNDB
- ^ Vice Presidents: A Biographical Dictionary
- ^ Crown Hill Cemetery
- ^ Vermont Historical Society
- ^ NNDB
- ^ Curtis Memorial Gardens
- ^ Waymarking
- ^ Biographical Dictionary of Iowa
- ^ “Wallace, Henry Agard, (1888 – 1965)”. Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress 1774 – Present. Washington, D.C.: United States Congress. Retrieved June 1, 2018.
- ^ National Park Service
- ^ ExploreKYHistory
- ^ Yorba Linda History
- ^ Portal to Texas History
- ^ NNDB
- ^ “AGNEW, Spiro Theodore, (1918 – 1996)”. Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress 1774 – Present. Washington, D.C.: United States Congress. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
- ^ New York Times
- ^ New York Times
- ^ “Rockefeller, Nelson Aldrich, (1908 – 1979)”. Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress 1774 – Present. Washington, D.C.: United States Congress. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
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