Was Trump the only president in American history to not have pre-1776 colonial ancestry? (user search)
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Bismarck
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« on: August 22, 2021, 11:35:07 AM »

Kennedy would be another possibility right? Maybe Eisenhower? Does anybody know about this?
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« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2021, 02:26:19 PM »

I can't find definitive information on the full ancestry of Kennedy or Reagan, but it looks like Wilson, Kennedy, Reagan, and Trump are the only four Presidents not to have any pre-Revolutionary American ancestry.

On the Ethnicelebs website, it says the same thing for Wilson, Kennedy, and Reagan:

https://ethnicelebs.com/woodrow-wilson
https://ethnicelebs.com/john-f-kennedy
https://ethnicelebs.com/ronald-reagan

“All eight of [name]’s great grandparents were born outside of the United States, a rarity among American Presidents.”

So that’s consistent with at least Kennedy and Regan likely not having any American colonial ancestry.  With Wilson, at least some of his great grandparents presumably would have been born before 1776, so it’s less clear.

But I just went to geni.com, and here are the profiles of Wilson’s grandparents:

James Wilson: born in Northern Ireland in 1787: https://www.geni.com/people/Judge-James-Wilson/6000000000769960770

Anne Adams: born in Northern Ireland in 1791: https://www.geni.com/people/Anne-Wilson/6000000003075663777

Thomas Woodrow: born in Scotland in 1793: https://www.geni.com/people/Rev-Thomas-Woodrow/6000000007476641745

Marion Williamson: born in Scotland in 1791: https://www.geni.com/people/Marion-Woodrow/6000000007476767602

So yeah, he presumably also had no ancestors living in the American colonies.


That’s good info, thanks. More than I thought. I had no idea about Wilson.
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