Not counting temporary residences (hotels, stays with Grandma, etc.) but actual addresses, where he could have voted from (if he was eligible). I’ll count boarding schools, colleges, etc, but other than that (summer camp) it doesn’t count.
And who was the biggest stay-at-home, never-budged guy?
Does the fact that a number of them were in the military count? Eisenhower, for example, was in the Army for his entire adult life (save for his years as president), and undoubtedly was stationed at many places in that time.
Actually, that’s a good one.
I guess if they got mail at a base (as opposed to being on manuevers–“DDE, mudhole, 1/2 mile from river”) that would count.
Well to that end, U.S. Grant probably got moved around a lot more in warfare than Eisenhower would have been, just because of technology of the times and whatnot?
Lincoln was born in Kentucky, lived for a while in Indiana, then in New Salem, Illinois for a while, then in a boarding house in Springfield, Illinois for a while, then bought a home in Springfield, Illinois before moving off to Washington. At some point during his time in Illinois he was in the Army and served in the Black Hawk War.
Yeah, I think my WAG would be Grant - he was all over the damn place even when not leading an Army. He was from Ohio, went to West Point, moved all over with the Army during the Mexican-American War and immediately after (California, Oregon). He resigned from the Army, and lived in Missouri for awhile then moved to Illinois. Re-joined during the Civil War and was again constantly moving. Did some more moving after the war and then ran for president.
I’m having trouble finding a good candidate for minimum. Probably a non-military guy… and I’d think an older one (before moving out-of-state was as common).
Jefferson might be a one for the minimum. After he built Monticello, didn’t he live there the rest of his life. Even including part of his time as President, since the White House wasn’t done yet.
Or maybe Truman beats him. After he married, he moved in with his wife in her mother’s house; when she died they inherited it and continued to live there the rest of their lives.
As a diplomat, John Quincy Adams lived all over the world at different points- in the Netherlands, in Portugal, in Prussia, in Russia and in England.
Except he was also a member of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, Governor of Virginia at Richmond, minister to France at Paris, and Secretary of State under President Washington in New York, so that’s four other locations besides DC and Monticello.
ETA: The White House was completed in 1800 and President Adams was the first President to live there, so Jefferson would have also lived there after he succeeded Adams.
Didn’t he also have a Gettysburg address?
[duckin’ an’ runnin’, an’ mo’ duckin’, and still runnin’…]
Well, McKinley never left his front porch until he was elected President. 