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Presidential collegiate choices Allegheny William McKinley Amherst Calvin Coolidge Annapolis Jimmy Carter Bowdoin Franklin Pierce Cambridge None Columbia Franklin D Roosevelt Davidson Woodrow Wilson Dickinson James Buchanan Duke Richard M Nixon Eureka Ronald Reagan Georgetown U Bill Clinton Hampden-Sydney William Henry Harrison Harvard John Adams John Quincy Adams Rutherford B Hayes John F Kennedy Franklin D Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Johns Hopkins Woodrow Wilson Kansas City Law School Harry S Truman Kenyon Rutherford B Hayes Miami Benjamin Harrison Michigan U Gerald R Ford Ohio Central College Warren Harding Ohio University Benjamin Harrison Oxford Bill Clinton Princeton James Madison Woodrow Wilson Southwest Texas Teachers Lyndon B Johnson Stanford Herbert Hoover U North Carolina James Polk Union Coll, Schenectady Chester A Arthur U Virginia Law School Woodrow Wilson West Point Dwight D Eisenhower Ulysses S Grant Whittier Richard M Nixon William & Mary Thomas Jefferson John Tyler James Monroe Williams James A Garfield Yale George Bush Bill Clinton Gerald R Ford William H Taft None Grover Cleveland Millard Fillmore Andrew Jackson Andrew Johnson Abraham Lincoln Zachary Taylor Martin Van Buren George Washington President’s receiving the highest % of popular vote % Democrats are in italics 61.4 Lyndon B Johnson 60.7 Richard Nixon 1972 60.5 Warren G Harding 60.2 Franklin D Roosevelt 1936 58.8 Ronald Reagan 1984 58.0 Herbert Hoover 57.4 Dwight D Eisenhower 1956 57.3 Franklin D Roosevelt 1932 56.0 Andrew Jackson 1828 55.6 Ulysses S Grant 1872 55.1 Dwight D Eisenhower 1952 55.0 Abraham Lincoln 1864 54.7 Franklin D Roosevelt 1940 54.2 Calvin Coolidge 54.2 Andrew Jackson 1832 53.4 George Bush 53.3 Franklin D Roosevelt 1944 52.9 William H Harrison 52.7 Ulysses S Grant 1868 51.6 William H Taft 51.0 William McKinley 1896 50.8 Jimmy Carter 50.8 Franklin Pierce 50.8 Ronald Reagan 1980 50.8 Martin Van Buren 49.7 John F Kennedy 49.5 James K Polk 49.4 Harry S Truman 49.3 Bill Clinton 1996 49.2 Woodrow Wilson 1916 48.5 Grover Cleveland 1884 48.4 James Garfield 48.0 Rutherford B Hayes  47.8 Benjamin Harrison  47.3 Zachary Taylor 46.1 Grover Cleveland 1892 46.1 Theodore Roosevelt 45.3 James Buchanan 43.4 William McKinley 1900 43.4 Richard Nixon 1968 43.2 Bill Clinton 1992 41.8 Woodrow Wilson 1912 39.8 Abraham Lincoln 1860  30.9 John Quincy Adams 4 Presidents before the first recorded popular vote in 1824 John Adams Thomas Jefferson James Madison James Monroe George Washington Presidents only by succession Chester Arthur Millard Fillmore Gerald Ford Andrew Johnson John Tyler Presidential Birthdays January 7, 1800 Millard Fillmore 9, 1913 Richard M Nixon 29, 1843 William McKinley 30, 1882 Franklin D Roosevelt February 6, 1911 Ronald Reagan 9, 1773 William H Harrison 12, 1809 Abraham Lincoln 22, 1732 George Washington March 15, 1767 Andrew Jackson 16, 1751 James Madison 18, 1837 Grover Cleveland 29, 1790 John Tyler April 13, 1743 Thomas Jefferson 23, 1791 James Buchanan 27, 1822 Ulysses S Grant 28, 1758 James Monroe May 8, 1884 Harry S Truman 29, 1917 John F Kennedy June 12, 1924 George Bush July 4, 1872 Calvin Coolidge 11, 1767 John Quincy Adams 14, 1913 Gerald Ford August 10, 1874 Herbert Hoover 19, 1946 Bill Clinton 20, 1833 Benjamin Harrison 27, 1908 Lyndon B Johnson September 15, 1857 William H Taft October 1, 1924 Jimmy Carter 4, 1822 Rutherford B Hayes 5, 1829 Chester Arthur 14, 1890 Dwight D Eisenhower 27, 1858 Theodore Roosevelt 30, 1735 John Adams November 2, 1795 James K Polk 2, 1865 Warren G Harding 19, 1831 James Garfield 23, 1804 Franklin Pierce 24, 1784 Zachary Taylor  December 5, 1782 Martin Van Buren 28, 1856 Woodrow Wilson 29, 1808 Andrew Johnson