Trump not first president to vacation in New Jersey
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump is not the first president to vacation in New Jersey.
But unlike Trump, who spent most of his "working vacation" at his private golf club in Bedminster, his 19th century predecessors sought relief along the New Jersey shore from Washington's swamp-like summer before air-conditioning.
They joined wealthy friends, such as publisher George W. Childs and railroad sleeping car designer George Pullman, who often offered the chief executives the use of their "summer cottages."
Seven presidents — Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Chester Arthur, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley and Woodrow Wilson — spent parts of their summers in New Jersey, mostly in Long Branch.