Which U.S. president is the only one born on Independence Day?

Calvin Coolidge is the only U.S. president born on Independence Day.

Coolidge was born on July 4, 1872, in Plymouth Notch, Vermont. He later became the 30th president, serving from 1923 to 1929 after succeeding Warren G. Harding.

The date creates a natural association between Coolidge and the nation’s patriotic holiday, but he was born nearly a century after the Declaration of Independence. He was also the only president born on July 4, according to the established list of presidential birth dates.

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams are sometimes guessed because both were central figures in the founding era. However, Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743, and Adams on October 30, 1735. Both men did die on July 4, 1826, the Declaration’s 50th anniversary.