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  2. List of presidents of the United States by home state

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    Born on December 5, 1782, Martin Van Buren was the first president born an American citizen (and not a British subject). [2] The term Virginia dynasty is sometimes used to describe the fact that four of the first five U.S. presidents were from Virginia.

  3. Edmund Rucker - Wikipedia

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    Edmund Rucker was born near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on July 22, 1835. He was the grandson of Gen. James Winchester , a veteran of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] After a basic education Rucker moved to Nashville in 1853, working as railroad surveyor before becoming an engineer.

  4. William Preston Anderson - Wikipedia

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    William Preston Anderson (1774–1831) was a United States Attorney, colonel during the War of 1812, surveyor, and land speculator in Tennessee and Alabama, United States. He is best known today for his association with U.S. president Andrew Jackson and as the father of a general of the Confederate States Army.

  5. The Surprising First Jobs of 17 U.S. Presidents - AOL

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    1. George Washington: Surveyor. b. 1732 – 1799. President: 1789 – 1797. Long before crossing the Delaware, the first president of the U.S. was out in the field surveying land in Virginia as a ...

  6. History of surveying in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Prior to independence, Peter Jefferson, along with his son Thomas Jefferson, were land surveyors for the crown. At this time, surveyors used a system known as the metes and bounds system, which used "monuments"; identifiable objects such as rocks, trees, etc., as property markers. The surveyor would measure from monument to monument.

  7. List of people from Tennessee - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of prominent people who were born in the U.S ... former Tennessee Senator, 45th Vice President of the United ... surveyor; Frederick W. Smith ...

  8. List of presidents of the United States - Wikipedia

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    John Tyler was the first vice president to assume the presidency during a presidential term, setting the precedent that a vice president who does so becomes the fully functioning president with a new, distinct administration. [13] Throughout most of its history, American politics has been dominated by political parties. The Constitution is ...

  9. The top 20 presidents in US history, according to historians

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    As part of C-SPAN's third Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership, almost 100 historians and biographers rated the 43 former presidents on ten qualities of presidential leadership: Public ...