When President Trump holds a campaign event in Oshkosh this afternoon, he’ll be the sixth sitting president to visit the city.
The president will land at Wittman Regional Airport and speak at Basler Flight Servives at 4:30 p.m.
It will be the first time in 16 years that a president has been in Oshkosh, while in office. Former President George W. Bush spoke on the EAA grounds in 2004. His father, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, and William Howard Taft were also sitting presidents when they were in the city.
Two former presidents stopped in Oshkosh after they left office — Ulysses S. Grant in 1880, and Theodore Roosevelt in 1912.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Barack Obama campaigned in Oshkosh before they took office.
Richard Nixon was vice president when he visited in 1958.
Another president passed through town on a train while he was in office. People gathered along the railroad tracks to welcome Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1943, but he didn’t stop and didn’t go on the train’s platform.
