To: kellynla
He is the seventh president with at least one foreign-born parent: Herbert Hoover had a Canadian-born mother. Woodrow Wilson’s mother was English. Chester Arthur and James Buchanan both had Irish fathers. Thomas Jefferson’s mother was born in England, and Andrew Jackson’s parents were both born in Ireland.
40 posted on
08/26/2009 1:05:41 PM PDT by
loreldan
(Lynne Cheney for President)
To: loreldan
The question is, did any of those parents become citizens before their child was born?
46 posted on
08/26/2009 1:08:24 PM PDT by
netmilsmom
(Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
To: loreldan
It has nothing to do with where their parents were born, but, were their parents US Citizens at the time of their birth.
A natural born US citizen is someone who was born on US soil, and for those born in US territories, both parents would have to be US citizens.
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