30 Surprising Things You Never Knew About U.S. Presidents

America’s eighth president was the first to be born stateside

There were seven official U.S. presidents before Martin Van Buren, the first president to actually be born in the states, took office. Van Buren was the eighth U.S. president. In fairness, the United States was not even founded until 1776, two years before George Washington took office, but facts are facts.