Answer: Millard Fillmore and Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren- 8th President of the United States (Photo Courtesy of Library of Congress)
Van Buren was born on December 5, 1782 in Kinderhook, New York. His later home, Lindenwald, is a National Historic site. That makes the eighth president the first born an American citizen, even though Dutch was his first language.
Fillmore, the 13th President,was born in Summerhiill, New York on January 7, 1800. His later home is also a national historic site in East Aurora, New York.
Unlike the two Roosevelts, Theodore and Franklin, , Van Buren and Fillmore do not make anyone’s “Greatest Presidents list” –including mine.
Read more about both men in Don’t Know Much About the American Presidents.
DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT® THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS (HYPERION PAPERBACK APRIL 15, 2014)
