# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/21 "2014-06-27T14:22:54Z")
All the ones in my wallet, yo! ---
**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, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/22 "2014-06-27T15:37:44Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I also saw Gerarld Ford’s gravesite at the Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, but he wasn’t dead yet. _scoff_ Or so he said. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/23 "2014-06-27T15:43:04Z")
Presidents: George Washington Chester A. Arthur (just down the road from me) FDR JFK Others: [William Dawes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dawes) (might have been better known if his name were easier to rhyme) Bobby Kennedy ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/24 "2014-06-27T16:56:02Z")
George Washington Thomas Jefferson James Madison William McKinley James Garfield JFK ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/25 "2014-06-27T16:59:08Z")
Washington Grant Cleveland (hah!) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/26 "2014-06-27T17:58:10Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Washington > Grant > Cleveland (hah!) Got in right before me. Cleveland for me too. Princeton NJ. Also Kennedy and Taft. I’ve seen Grant’s Tomb but have never officially been on the grounds. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/27 "2014-06-27T18:06:06Z")
I’m embarrassed to admit this, but . . . I’ve seen them all. (I’m a grave buff.) Well, not _quite_ all. I visited the Ford and Reagan libraries before they died. But, I saw where they were _going_ to be buried. Highlights: the Garfield monument near Cleveland, Tyler and Monroe within a few feet of each other in Richmond, the two Adamses in the church crypt near Boston, Grant’s Tomb (of course!), and Coolidge’s humble hillside gravestone in Vermont. I’m also a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier buff. I’ve seen the ones in the US, Britain, France, Italy, Greece, Belgium, Portugal (yes, they fought in World War I), Australia, and New Zealand. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/28 "2014-06-27T18:24:55Z")
Washington - quiet and tasteful. I’ve been to Mount Vernon several times - he’s still my favorite President Madison - a very ornate grave in Hollywood, a tony cemetery in Richmond, Va. Tyler - also not far away in Hollywood Lincoln - the guide told his body’s actually far below the sarcophagus that you see Hayes - nice garden setting on the grounds of his Ohio home Garfield - I could walk to his mausoleum from where we used to live Wilson - a nice tomb at the National Cathedral that includes both the Presidential seal and the Princeton University coat of arms - he’s still the only President buried within Washington, D.C. Coolidge - a low-key headstone in a steep, rural Vermont cemetery FDR - nice joint grave with Eleanor in Hyde Park Eisenhower - visited it on a Boy Scout trip years ago JFK - seen several times at Arlington; still chokes me up a little Ford - saw the site before he died I also saw the many greats (Elizabeth I and Sir Isaac Newton, off the top of my head) at Westminster Abbey; John Paul Jones’s big and impressive sarcophagus in the U.S. Naval Academy chapel; Daniel Morgan’s and Stonewall Jackson’s in Virginia; Alexander Hamilton’s, Robert Fulton’s and Ground Zero in NYC; and Napoleon’s gigantic tomb in Paris. There’ve been others, but those are the ones I can think of now. ---
**Author:** ![jonesj2205](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecc23a/32.png) [@jonesj2205](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jonesj2205)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/29 "2014-06-27T19:22:29Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Presidents: > > Chester A. Arthur (just down the road from me) Hey neighbor! In addition to Arthur Washington Jefferson Pretty sure Madison Kennedy ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/30 "2014-06-27T20:58:37Z")
I pass by Andrew Jackson twice a day, on my way to/from work. Sometimes I wave. Taylor is a few blocks from my in-law’s house so I’ve been there also. I’ve been to both Adams’ as a kid. I’m drawing a blank on the others though. ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/31 "2014-06-27T23:14:20Z")
Kennedy and McKinley. The former on our 8th grade Washington DC trip, and the latter about 10 times (I grew up in Canton, and the McKinley monument is required field trip material every year of elementary school.) ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/32 "2014-06-28T00:25:59Z")
Just Washington at Mount Vernon. I have been to Sen. Joe McCarthy’s grave, but only because my grandparents are buried in the same cemetery. ---
**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 28, 2014, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/33 "2014-06-28T01:28:31Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Washington > Grant > Cleveland (hah!) Why “hah!” with Cleveland? > [@Skammer](#): > > I pass by Andrew Jackson twice a day, on my way to/from work. Sometimes I wave. Just so long as he doesn’t wave back. I’ve also seen the sarcophagi of various pseudo-important Middle Age and Renaissance personages in various cathedrals of West Germany when I was bumming around there back in Cold War days. But the basement of one cathedral – I’m thinking it was in Bremen – contained some remarkably preserved Swedish soldiers from the Thirty Years’ War. One had an obviously pissed-off expression on his face that he was at that moment being killed. IIRC, the staff claimed the preservation was due to the lead lining in the basement. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/34 "2014-06-28T02:22:41Z")
Abraham Lincoln Woodrow Wilson Harry S Truman (at his library, kind of like Elvis at Graceland) John F Kennedy ---
**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 28, 2014, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/35 "2014-06-28T02:45:55Z")
Who here has visited Cleveland’s tomb on two non-consecutive occasions? ---
**Author:** ![Inna\_Minnit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Inna\_Minnit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inna_Minnit)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/36 "2014-06-28T05:27:55Z")
Not a President, but a leader of a nation, [Chief Joseph.](http://blog.oregonlive.com/terryrichard/2008/08/chief_josephs_grave_an_inspiri.html) ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/37 "2014-06-28T14:01:23Z")
Have been to: John F. Kennedy Benjamin Harrison Dwight D. Eisenhower U.S. Grant Ronald Reagan F.D.R. Harry S. Truman Then: - Bush, the elder: I was at the site, but it was empty. It’s still empty. - Nixon: I haven’t been there yet but it’s in southern Cal, so it’s nearby. I’ll make it there in the near future. Also have been to: - Charles Lindbergh - Napoleon Bonaparte - Emilio Aguinaldo, the first president of the Philippines - Geronimo (“one who yawns”): he’s at Fort Sill, OK - Robert Irsay, owner of the Baltimore/Indianapolis Colts (“Bourbon Bob”) - on my way to Benjamin Harrison’s grave. They’re in the same cemetery. {Also in that cemetery, but I did not go to, are John Dillinger and Jefferson Davis. Crown Hill Cemetery, in Indianapolis.} Abraham Lincoln: the next time I’m near Springfield IL, I’ll have to visit his grave. [It looks quite impressive.](http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/sites/tomb3.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/38 "2014-06-28T15:47:20Z")
I’ve visited death related things of: John Kennedy - Visited his grave and seen the car he was shot in(even broke the rules and touched the seat he was sitting in). Mao Zedong - he’s mostly wax at this point. It’s creepy. Nice Mausoleum, though. Abraham Lincoln - I’ve only seen the chair he was sitting in when shot, but pretty neat. It’s in Dearborn, Michigan if you are curious. ---
**Author:** ![JerrySTL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@JerrySTL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerrySTL)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749/39 "2014-06-28T16:35:25Z")
As far as presidents, only JFK. I visited Sir Winston Churchill’s grave at St Martin’s Church not far from Blenheim Palace a few times when I lived in England. It was a very simple grave back in the early 1990s. However I just read on Wikipedia that the stone was replaced in 1998 and the area restored in 2006. ---
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Presidents: Truman, Grant Other Notables: Juan Ponce de Leon one of the alleged Christopher Columbus tombs (Santo Domingo Cathedral, before they completed the huge lighthouse monument) Various royals and historic figures at Westminster Abbey I guess I’m just not that big on gravesite tourism. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-presidents-have-you-visited/691749.md?page=3)