Posted on 06/22/2024 8:28:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
None of the United States Presidents in the first 61 years of the nation’s existence were actually born in the country they led. The reason for this is simple enough: The first seven U.S. Presidents — George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson — were all born before 1776, and therefore before the United States was an independent nation.
The first President who could actually claim to have been born a U.S. citizen was the country’s eighth President, Martin Van Buren. Van Buren was born in 1782 in Kinderhook, New York, which also makes him the first native of the Empire State to be elected to the presidency.
Before becoming President in 1837, Van Buren served as Vice President under Andrew Jackson (who himself was born in 1767 in a territory disputed between the British colonies of North and South Carolina). Jackson’s endorsement helped elevate Van Buren to the nation’s highest office.
However, his presidency was marked by a severe economic downturn, which sunk his bid for a second term. He was defeated in his campaign for reelection by William Henry Harrison, who was born in Virginia in 1773, making him the last U.S. President to come into the world a subject of the British Empire.
Martin Van Buren may have been the first President born in the United States, but his first language wasn’t English — it was Dutch. His family’s roots in Kinderhook, New York, extended back before the nation’s founding, and even before New York was a British colony. Van Buren could trace his heritage to Dutch immigrants who settled in the Kinderhook area in 1631, when New York was known as New Netherland. Even after control of the colony passed from the Dutch to the English, Kinderhook remained an overwhelmingly Dutch community, and the young Van Buren grew up speaking the Dutch language until he learned English in school, and became fluent in his teens.
Hmmmm. Setting up the precident to elect illegal aliens as president?
Perhaps, but I’ll bet they shared common ancestry with most of the poplulation.
But weren’t they ALL born in one of the original 13 colonies?
Naw, this is just to wind up those “NBC” morons
Hmmm ... you do know that there’s a clause in the original text (not in an amendment) of the Constitution dealing with that situation. Right?
So, now we know.
Good for a trivia question and answer.
So now we can talk more about the natural born citizenship debate?
Obviously the first few presidents were not born in the United States, because the United States as a governmental entity did not exist yet.
So British are responsible for slavery, right?
Obviously, these “history facts” were written by someone who doesn’t know anything about American History. That’s quite common during these retarded times in America.
“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;”
Setting up the first DACA Presidenta!Here comes they/them!
Utter BS
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Nuff said.
The town, in far eastern New York, has some nice Van Buren history.
And the city of New York was known as New Amsterdam.
Yes.
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