States that did not produce major party presidential nominees

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I'm, of course, referring to "home states", not "birth states". Here are states that did not produce major party presidential nominees (those with asterisk did, however, produce VP nominees):

Alabama*
Alaska*
Colorado
Connecticut*
Delaware*
Florida
Hawaii
Idaho
Iowa*
Maryland*
Mississippi
Montana
Nevada
New Mexico
North Carolina*
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Oregon*
Rhode Island
Utah
Vermont
Washington
Wisconsin*
Wyoming*

Florida is perhaps the most intriguing case, being now (or about to become) the third most populous state in the Union, and having very quickly transformed from a backwater into a large one. Probably the notorious "resign to run" law (not repealed till 2008) was a significant restraining factor.

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Fixed Iowa and Nebraska (I remembered Charles W. Bryan but somehow forgot William, shame)

William R King, Vice President to Franklin Pierce, had a lengthy career as Alabama's Senator. He died shortly after the election. He may be best known for his close relationship with James Buchanan, and for his Inauguration occurring on foreign soil (He was in Cuba for his health.)

Also John Sparkman, Dem VP nominee in '52.

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In contrast, major party presidential nominees by states (1800 and on):

Arizona: Barry Goldwater, John McCain

Arkansas: Bill Clinton

California: John Fremont, Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan

Georgia: William Crawford, Jimmy Carter

Illinois: Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Ulysses S. Grant, Adlai E. Stevenson, Barack Obama

Indiana: Benjamin Harrison

Kansas: Alf Landon, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Bob Dole

Kentucky: Henry Clay, John C. Breckinridge

Louisiana: Zachary Taylor

Maine: James G. Blaine

Massachusetts: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Calvin Coolidge, John F. Kennedy, Michael Dukakis, John Kerry, Mitt Romney

Michigan: Lewis Cass, Gerald Ford

Minnesota: Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale

Missouri: Harry S. Truman

Nebraska: William Jennings Bryan

New Hampshire: Franklin Pierce

New Jersey: Winfield Scott, John B. McClellan, Woodrow Wilson

New York: Aaron Burr, DeWitt Clinton, Rufus King, Martin Van Buren, Horatio Seymour, Horace Greeley, Samuel Tilden, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Alton B. Parker, Charles E. Hughes, Al Smith, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Wendell Willkie, Thomas E. Dewey

North Carolina: Willie Person Mangum

Ohio: William Henry Harrison, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, William H. Taft, James M. Cox, Warren G. Harding

Pennsylvania: James Buchanan, Winfield S. Hancock

South Carolina: C. C. Pinckney  

South Dakota: George McGovern

Tennessee: Andrew Jackson, Hugh L. White, James Knox Polk, John C. Bell, Al Gore

Texas: Lyndon B. Johnson, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush

Virginia: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe

West Virginia: John W. Davis  


I included candidates from 1824 (four Democratic Republicans competing against each other), 1836 (four Whig candidates vs. Van Buren) and 1860 (a schism within the Democratic Party with Bell sometimes called "the last Whig nominee").

There's one from NC after all (Mangum, one of 4 Whig candidaes in 1836).

Kansas is frequently credited as Ike's "home state", even though he wasn't a residen when elected (NY) and reelected (PA). We can say Ike didn't have a "home state" is political sense.

Sorry if I missed any nominee.

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William Graham, the Whig VP nominee in 1852, had been Senator and Governor of North Carolina, as well as Secretary of the Navy.

Don't forget John Edwards. 

Sometimes I feel the man ought to be forgotten, but that's not easy