U.S. Presidential Visits to Macomb & McDonough County
Macomb has been visited by several US Presidents over the years. Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan have all made short addresses in Macomb and McDonough County. Additionally, on two separate occasions Barack Obama visited Macomb and Abraham Lincoln was here at least four times addressing large audiences on two of those occasions.