Well, Gerald Ford was born in Nebraska and he was a Republican. Oh, I guess "NE" meant New England.
Both Presidents Bush were born in New England.
The only Republican President born in New England who still lived there when he was President was Calvin Coolidge, born in Vermont, later Governor of Massachusetts. Chester Arthur was born in Vermont (probably--some claim he was born across the line in Canada), but lived in New York when he became President.
Both of those men became President because the President who was elected died in office. It almost happened to another New Englander--Hannibal Hamlin of Maine, who was Lincoln's VP in his first term. (Replacing him with Andrew Johnson was a big mistake--but Lincoln didn't know he would be assassinated, or that Atlanta would fall before the election.)
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