File:Oscar Underwood campaign's Great White House Desert map.png

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Map of the Eastern United States that shows home states of the first 30 Presidents. Herbert Hoover would be the first from west of the Mississippi River.

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English: Caption text says "This map, Redrawn From One Prepared by Irving S. Sayford of Washington, Is Being Used in the Underwood Campaign. The Shaded Area, Comprising Ten States, Shows What the Underwood Followers Call "The Great White House Desert: Area 737,366 Square Miles. Population, 24,242,381; This Presidential Desert Contains 37 Per Cent of all the Farms of the Country. Their United States Census Value is $15,000,000,000. Never in the Nation's History Has a President Been Chosen From South of the Tennessee Line-135 years" All Thirty Presidents Have Come From Ten States. The Key Numbers Show the States From Which the Presidents Have Come, in the Order of Their Service. The Keys Marked "V" Indicate Vice-Presidents, of Which Only Two Have Been Chosen in the "Desert" The Presidents Indicated by the Key Numbers Follow: 1-Washington 2-J. Adams 3-Jefferson 4-Madison 5-Monroe 6.-J. Q. Adams 7- Jackson 8-Van Buren 9-W. H. Harrison 10-Tyler 11-Polk 12-Taylor 13-Fillmore 14-Pierce 15-Buchanan 16- Lincoln 17-Johnson 18-Grant 19-Hayes 20-Garfield 21-Arthur 22-Cleveland 23-B. Harrison 24-Cleveland 25- McKinley 26.-[T.] Roosevelt 27.-Taft 28.-Wilson. 29- Harding 30- Coolidge" [The 31st President Herbert Hoover would be the first from west of the Mississippi River.]
Date 11-25-1923
Source The New York Times, November 25, 1923 "Rival Leaders for Democratic Nomination Head Opposing Wings - Struggle for South"
Author Irving S. Sayford for the Oscar Underwood 1924 presidential campaign.

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