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
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“Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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Went down the list of the dead.
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—Gough Whitlam (b. 1916)
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—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)