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To: Verginius Rufus
Charles Francis Adams, a son of John Quincy Adams, was almost nominated for President in 1872 by the Liberal Republicans (the anti-Grant faction) but lost out to Horace Greeley. His mother was born in London in 1775 to an American father and an English mother. His supporters in 1872 clearly did not see him as disqualified.

CFA was born in Boston. His father (born in Quincy MA) and his mother (born in London) would have become American citizens with the Revolution and independence.

There's a gray area there -- what did happen with the citizenship of Americans who were living abroad through the Revolutionary period? -- but since Louisa Johnson Adams's father became an American consul in London and her uncle signed the Declaration of Independence, I'm going to assume that she became a US citizen by the time the Constitution was ratified.

436 posted on 03/09/2013 1:30:18 PM PST by x
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Who was Louisa Johnson’s uncle? No one with the surname Johnson signed the Declaration of Independence. Her father was an American merchant living in London at the time she was born—he was appointed a consul later, after Britain recognized US independence. She grew up in England and in France and was married in London—I don’t know if she had been to the US before 1801. But I think having a citizen father would have made her a US citizen. Reportedly John Adams initially was opposed to John Quincy marrying a “foreigner.”


636 posted on 03/09/2013 6:03:05 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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