List Of U.S. Counties Named After U.S. Presidents
This is a list of U.S. counties which are named for Presidents of the United States.
Read more about List Of U.S. Counties Named After U.S. Presidents: Washington County (31 Counties), Jefferson County (24 Counties With 3 More Indirectly Named For Jefferson), Jackson County (21 Counties Named For Jackson), Madison County (probably 19 With 2 More Indirectly Named For Madison), Lincoln County (17 Counties), Monroe County (17 Counties), Polk County (16 Counties), Grant County (12 Counties), Garfield County (6 Counties), Harrison County (4 Counties), Pierce County (4 Counties), Taylor County (4 Counties), Van Buren County (4 Counties), Buchanan County (3 Counties), Fillmore County (3 Counties) and Millard County, Cleveland County (2 Counties), Roosevelt County (2 Counties), Tyler County (2 Counties), Arthur County (1 County), Harding County (1 County), Hayes County (1 County), McKinley County (1 County), Johnson County (0 Counties), Reagan County (0 Counties), Clinton County (0 Counties), Wilson County (0 Counties), Without A County
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, named and/or presidents:
“Shea—they call him Scholar Jack—
Went down the list of the dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
The crews of the gig and yawl,
The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
Carpenters, coal-passers—all.”
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (1846–1925)
“Shea—they call him Scholar Jack—
Went down the list of the dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
The crews of the gig and yawl,
The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
Carpenters, coal-passers—all.”
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (1846–1925)
“They named it Ovation from the Latin ovis [a sheep].”
—Plutarch (46–120)
“A president, however, must stand somewhat apart, as all great presidents have known instinctively. Then the language which has the power to survive its own utterance is the most likely to move those to whom it is immediately spoken.”
—J.R. Pole (b. 1922)