A child born to a U.S. citizen mother in 1874 in Oxfordshire, England was not a U.S. citizen.
That child is Winston Churchill. He was posthumously proclaimed Honorary Citizen of the United States April 9, 1963 (Pub.L. 88–6)
I guess that means Churchill was a natural born citizen. /s
Pub. L. 88-6
Here is where Cruz might be in more ideological trouble (and more stuff for Democrats to flout) than some more vanilla flavored GOP candidate. Cruz is the fundamentalist constitution guy.
He’s possibly going to be tied up having to defend the new view of natural born citizen that lets Congress have a say in it via its naturalization requirements. I’ve said there is something to this new view myself. I’d vote in good conscience for Cruz were he the candidate in the main election. But the constitution is an item of hot debate and yes, even the Calvinballers will suddenly pretend to be conventional rule keepers when it is in their interest. And we get nowhere because nobody’s thinking about God which should be the factor that cuts this Gordian knot.