>I am curious.
>I have read that Thomas Jefferson was born in a log cabin.  Is this
>true?
>I am in a trivia contest, and one of the questions is: Who was the first
>U.S. president to be born in a log cabin?

According to Willard Sterne Randall in "Thomas Jefferson: A Life,"

        "Thomas Jefferson was born in a simple, one-and-a-half story
frame farmhouse in the middle of a horseshoe of outbuildings in a
clearing on the edge of the Virginia wilderness on April 13, 1743."  (pg.
2)

Therefore, it sounds like Jefferson is not your man.

Just off-hand, I have always been under the impression that Abraham
Lincoln (who was indeed born in a log-cabin) was the first.  But you
would need to check that out.  Andrew Jackson was born on the frontier,
and that may have been in a log cabin.





According to  AbsoluteTrivia.com, 

Although several more have claimed it, there were only six U.S. presidents
who were born in log cabins. They were Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, 
Millard Fillmore, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, and James Garfield.

Whether that is correct, or whether Historian Randall is correct, the
reader must decide.