# How Many Dead Presidents Have You Visited? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 27, 2014, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749 "2014-06-27T02:20:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/1 "2014-06-27T02:20:23Z")
For some reason, this question just popped into my head. For me, it’s Washington and Kennedy. Anyone else of note? Off the top of my head, I’ve visited Charles Lindbergh’s grave on Maui. Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia (along with some other early-American patriots in the same cemetery such as Dr. Benjamin Rush). Saw Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi. (But oddly, despite visiting Tiananmen Square in Beijing several times, I never could be bothered to see Mao.) ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/2 "2014-06-27T02:37:29Z")
For me: George Washington Thomas Jefferson Rutherford Hayes William McKinley Woodrow Wilson Warren Harding John F. Kennedy The most interesting other one is the [non-tomb of King Richard III of England in Leicester](https://www.flickr.com/photos/75905404@N00/293450152/), which I visited before they found his body a short distance away from that tablet in Leicester Cathedral. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/3 "2014-06-27T02:55:31Z")
I might be the only poster who’s visited Millard Fillmore’s grave. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/4 "2014-06-27T03:00:00Z")
Taft is buried in Arlington National Cemetery too, isn’t he? I can’t remember if we saw his grave. I don’t think we did. There’s some vague memory if it being out of the way. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/5 "2014-06-27T03:20:23Z")
I’ve been to Westminster Abbey (various British royals), The Pantheon (various French heroes) and St. Peter’s Basilica (various popes). Also Napoleon’s tomb, Mao’s mausoleum, and Sun Yat-Sen’s mausoleum. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/6 "2014-06-27T03:28:45Z")
Is Washington buried at Mount Vernon? If so, he’s one. Lincoln Kennedy ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/7 "2014-06-27T03:31:27Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > Is Washington buried at Mount Vernon? If so, he’s one. > > Lincoln > Kennedy Well, entombed at Mount Vernon, along with Martha. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/8 "2014-06-27T03:39:27Z")
Washington, Kennedy and the rich and famous in Westminster Abbey. ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/9 "2014-06-27T03:41:02Z")
I have seen the preserved bodies of: Lenin (Moscow) Chairman Mao (Beijing) Kim Il Sung (Pyongyang) And been to the tombs / burial places of: Kemel Ataturk (Ankara) Habib Bourguiba (First President of Tunisia) (Monastir, Tunisia) Ayatollah Khomeini (Tehran) Josip Broz Tito (Belgrade) Sir Edward Muteesa II (Kampala, Uganda) Haile Selassie (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) And one Mausoleum with nobody buried there: Enver Hoxa Hoxha (Tirana) And some ancient rulers: Timur (Samarkand, Uzbekistan) Cyrus the Great (Pasargadae, Iran) Shrine of Imam Reza (Mashhad, Iran) Shrine of Fatima (Qom, Iran) King David the Builder (near Kutaisi, Republic of Georgia) and possibly others. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/10 "2014-06-27T03:54:11Z")
Washington, Kennedy, and U.S. Grant. I’ve been to Washington National Cathedral, where Woodrow Wilson is buried, but I don’t recall seeing the grave site. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/11 "2014-06-27T03:55:40Z")
Washington Kennedy Herbert Hoover Non-president notables: Bobby Kennedy Abner Doubleday Robert E. Lee Walter Johnson William Shakespeare (probably - it’s a pretty good bet he’s in the floor of the church where the plaque is). Elvis ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/12 "2014-06-27T04:04:24Z")
John F. Kennedy (at Arlington National Cemetery) Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee (also at Arlington, but not on the tourist map so I had to ask where they were) Alexander Hamilton (Trinity Church in lower Manhattan) When I was at Kennedy’s grave, only Robert was also buried nearby. I believe that Jackie and Ted are also there now. And oddly, I’ve also been to Kennedy’s (Brookline, MA) and Hamilton’s (Charlestown, Nevis) birthplaces. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/13 "2014-06-27T04:17:33Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Alexander Hamilton (Trinity Church in lower Manhattan) > > When I was at Kennedy’s grave, only Robert was also buried nearby. I believe that Jackie and Ted are also there now. And oddly, I’ve also been to Kennedy’s (Brookline, MA) and Hamilton’s (Charlestown, Nevis) birthplaces. Oh yeah, I’ve been to Hamilton’s grave at Trinity Church too. And Robert Fulton, who is also buried there. Yes, Jackie’s there with JFK now. I do believe we saw Bobby’s grave too. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/14 "2014-06-27T10:52:05Z")
Just Kennedy - part of a school trip back in the 60s. 30-ish years ago, I wandered around thru [Cimitiere du Père Lachaise](http://www.pere-lachaise.com/perelachaise.php?lang=en) in Paris but I don’t recall visiting any specific famous dead folks. Mostly I remember all the cats that hung out there. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/15 "2014-06-27T11:00:10Z")
Washington Kennedy Grant Reagan ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/16 "2014-06-27T13:10:26Z")
Visited? None Visited me? Oh man too many to count… ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/17 "2014-06-27T13:14:02Z")
Lincoln and Kennedy. I also saw Gerarld Ford’s gravesite at the Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, but he wasn’t dead yet. Notable non-presidents: Buffalo Bill Bobby Kennedy ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/18 "2014-06-27T13:15:04Z")
I think I’ve seen only Washington, Jefferson, and Kennedy. But now you’ve gone and put the idea in my head, so I won’t be able to rest until I’ve visited them all. By reference to the [Wikipedia’s list of presidential burial places](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_burial_places_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States), I estimate I’ve been with 15 miles of 19 more graves and within 50 miles of about five more than that. Now I’m kicking myself for not making those side trips. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/19 "2014-06-27T14:13:16Z")
\*King Tut, Amenhotep and the other royals of The Valley of the Kings in Egypt \*King Khufu’s tomb in the Great Pyramid Washington Kennedy King Pedro I & Ines de Castro of Portugal The royals of Westminster Abbey \*Nobody home, of course. ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/20 "2014-06-27T14:16:24Z")
I’ve seen the tombs of George Washington, JFK, and Woodrow Wilson. Woodrow Wilson’s is easy to miss - it’s a sarcophagus in a church, sitting right out in the open. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749.md?page=2)