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Presidents
Presidents
Eighteen U.S. Presidents have visited Stafford County — nineteen if you include FDR whose train carrying his casket slowed down when it went through Stafford’s Brooke Point. Here are those that have visited/passed through on their way to other places:
- George Washington
- Thomas Jefferson
- James Madison
- James Monroe
- Andrew Jackson
- Martin Van Buren (while Jackson’s Vice President)
- William Henry Harrison
- John Tyler
- James Polk (traveling South to UNC)
- Zachary Taylor
- Millard Fillmore
- Abraham Lincoln
- Benjamin Harrison
- Grover Cleveland
- William McKinley
- Teddy Roosevelt
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (deceased)
- George W. Bush
- Donald Trump