What American presidents had rural backgrounds?

Answer 1

The answer depends on how you define rural. Washington, for example, lived on a farm, but he lived in a mansion and his estate was really a small village. Quincy Adams lived in what is now a suburb of Boston and he was raised in a large house with servants but it was part of a working farm. All of the presidents before Chester Arthur lived on some kind of farm at some point in their lives before they entered politics. After Arthur, presidents with farm backgrounds became fewer.

B. Harrison, Coolidge, Hoover, Truman all lived on farms for awhile. Carter's father was a peanut farmer, but they lived in town and his father had tenants who did the actual farm work.