Zero of the first five U.S. presidents were born in England.
Of the first five, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe, John Adams was the only one not born in the colony of Virginia.
He was from the Massachusetts Bay colony.
Back then, it was important that U.S presidents were true patriots.
And it still stand true today, one requirement for presidency, is that you were born in the U.S. and are a U.S. citizen.
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