False: Art 2, section 1: “No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President”
Obama was quoted four years ago as saying, “Some of my relatives look like Bernie Mac, and some of them look like Margaret Thatcher.”
Right, because it never occurred to the people writing the Constitution to account for this.
The first president born after 1789 was John Tyler, in 1790. The first to be born after the Declaration of Independence was Martin van Buren. And the first to be born outside one of the 13 colonies was Lincoln.
Hoover was the first president born west of the Mississippi.
And while the first thirty presidents were all born east of the Mississippi, eight of the last fourteen presidents were born west of the Mississippi.
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Little known facts:
Garibald P. Horatio, elected president in 1848 from the Merkin Party, was born on a bridge 43 feet above the Mississippi, while Uranus O. B. Kornblow, who won on the Populuxe Party ticket in 1900, was actually born in a cave 800 feet below its surface. The Nondenominational League of Trivia Concordencers foresaw that they would cause endless bickering in future pub trivia games and took the appropriate steps to erase them from history books, to the general benefit of all.
I remember this question, and the answer, from a highlight of family lore.
My father, at his citizenship test right after World War II, told the judge he was a student of political science. The judge, to bust his balls, asked him this question.
Can you imagine? He was off by one president, so the judge didn’t deport him after all.
Yes, but how many names did their assassins have? Hmmm?
Correct, and I should have known that.
Yeah; in fact Wikipedia has an entire article regarding TJ’s religious beliefs, so suffice to say, they were very… individualistic. “Diverging widely from the orthodox Christianity of his day”. He certainly expressed his belief in God many times, in any event.
And, of course, Barack Obama was born on a plane while flying over the Mississippi. His mother was rushing back home from a brief visit to Kenya, hoping that he would be born a native Hawaiian. The fact that he was born half in Mississippi and half in Louisiana (and so is the only president from either state) has been erased from official records, to avoid confusion.
Piker. I spend three hours a day easy, thinking about Charles Curtis.
Seriously doubt this.
Had Bernie Mac been getting it on with Margaret Thatcher, the paparrazi would have been all over it.
Irish people don’t think of themselves as Anglo-Saxon.
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Except for W.
Well, not all, maybe.
Back to the OP, why did it exclude Reagan and Clinton from the WASP list?
Irish, both working class backgrounds. You choose: actor, big city cop, or fireman.
It’s worth mentioning, though, that the ancestors of almost all Presidents originally hail from the English speaking part of Europe.
No Italian-American, no Hispanic, no Armenian-American, no Portuguese-American, no Russian-American or Polish-American, no Jewish-American, not to mention other continents than Europe (Obama, of course, breaking new ground in this regard).