Who was the first united states president to be born in a hospital?

Hard to believe, but it was Jimmy Carter!

yup. My mother always used to say everyone else was too rich or too poor to be born in a hospital.

http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/kids/facts.phtml

I think it was more of a case that in the 19th Century, it was the norm for women to give birth at home. This attitude changed in the early 20th Century, but not immediately. Carter was born in 1924. The previous ten Presidents' birth years are below.

Ford - 1913
Nixon - 1913
Johnson - 1908
Kennedy - 1917
Eisenhower - 1890
Truman - 1884
F. Roosevelt - 1882
Hoover - 1874
Coolidge - 1872
Harding - 1865



Harding's father was a doctor, Roosevelt's family was wealthy, Truman's a farmer, Ike's a college-education engineer, and Kennedy's father attended both Boston Latin School and Harvard, being the son of and later married to, prominent Boston political figures. Kennedy and Roosevelt were the only ones whose fathers could afford better conditions at home than in a hospital, but the others named were not poor. The increased incidence of giving births in hospitals is one of the things that caused such an increase in life expectancy in the US over the course of the first half of the 20th Century. Far fewer women died in childbirth and far more chilfren survived.