Lincoln was living in Illinois when he was elected. Grant was living in Illinois when he got a commission in the Union army and had a house in Galena. He was a hero in the war and did not spend much time in Illinois between the time the war was over and his nomination as President, but one might say that he was elected from Illinois. Of course, our current President was a Illinois resident when he was elected President.
Ronald Reagan, who was born in Illinois, left Illinois when he was young man, is the only other President with Illinois ties.
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* Reagan was born there. * Lincoln and Obama lived there when elected but weren't born there.
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US presidents are elected every four years, in years divisible by 4. Election day is the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
Not sure what you mean. The US president is elected on one day.
In voting booths around the US on election day.
Obama was elected US Senator by the state of Illinois.
Virginia, Ohio,New York, and Massachusetts were each home to at least four Presidents. Texas and Illinois had three.
No presidents were born in Chicago. Two presidents from Illinois were Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant but they were not born in Illinois. Ronald Reagan was born in Illinois but spent most of his life in California. Barack Obama is the first US president from Chicago but he was born in Hawaii.
No president of the US was born in Quincy, Illinois. There may have been some corporation presidents or college presidents or other president born there.
US Presidents do not have to have served in the military in order to be elected.
US Presidents have always been elected for a four year period