U.S. Presidents From California

The state of California has been home to six United States Presidents.

Among them, an L.A. student activist and poet, a Hollywood star, a Silicon Valley engineer, a Humboldt County soldier, an Orange County attorney and a Bay Area football coach who became a Southern California golfer.

While "The Gipper" is the president whom most people associate with the state of California, there were six who were locally influenced by the optimistic, ambitious and empowering atmosphere of the Golden State.

CALIFORNIA PRESIDENTS

President Ulysses S. Grant was a Northern California resident before he was elected the President of the United States.  In the 1850s, he served as a military captain at Fort Humboldt, near Eureka, as well as in Benicia, on the Carquinez Strait east of San Francisco, California.

President Herbert Hoover was a student at Stanford in Palo Alto in the 1890s.  He became a mining engineer in San Francisco who married in Monterey.  After his presidency, Hoover retired in Palo Alto and donated his 20,000 volume library to Stanford University, where the Hoover Institution is now based.

President Richard Nixon was an Orange County native.  After his days at Whittier College, Nixon practiced law in La Habra before becoming a congressman, senator,  U.S. vice president, California governor candidate and president.  The Richard Nixon Presidential Library is in his hometown of Yorba Linda.

President Gerald Ford was stationed at Saint Mary's College in the Bay Area during WWII as the football coach.  During his presidency, Ford survived two 1975 assassination attempts in Sacramento and San Francisco.  Afterward, Ford lived in Rancho Mirage as a golfer for 20 years until his death.

President Ronald Reagan was a Hollywood actor before living in Sacramento as Governor of California.  During his presidency, Reagan owned a ranch in Santa Barbara.  Afterward, he moved to Bel Air and worked in Century City.  His Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is in Simi Valley.

President Barack Obama is a former California resident, who attended Occidental College in Los Angeles during the late '70s and early '80s.  While living in Southern California, Obama was a student activist and poet, whose works were published in the L.A. student literary magazine, Feast.

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