[Godebert]

"Tell me how Alexander Hamilton become president .. he was born in the East Indies."

Hamilton was a citizen at the time if the adoption of the Constitution.

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; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

[BunnySlippers]

Thank all of you for correcting me.

[Wallace T.]

William Arthur, the father of Chester Arthur, was born in Ireland. (As with Obama, there was a dispute as to where he was born. The official record shows Arthur as being born in Vermont; it was alleged that he was really born in Quebec, Canada.) If the definition of a natural born citizen requires that the parents be American citizens at the time of the President’s birth, then Arthur would have failed that test, as Obama does. He was born in 1829, but his father did not become a US citizen until 1843. Like Barack Obama, Sr., William Arthur was a British subject at the time of his son’s birth,

[DMZFrank]

Hamilton was never a POTUS