Obama not the first mixed race President of USA if elected.

Dr. Leroy Vaugh ^ | 8-21-08 | edcoil

[edcoil]

The Five Black Presidents of The United States Of America.

Joel A. Rogers and Dr. Auset Bakhufu have both written books documenting that at least five former presidents of the United States had Black people among their ancestors.

The president’s names include Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Warren Harding, and Calvin Coolidge.

[stefanbatory]

“it was his social climbing, predatory wife who pushed him into the presidency.”

that sounds oddly familiar somehow...

[AnAmericanMother]

Yeah, there's a lot of that going around.

And frankly, when it comes to scary-looking women, she makes Hillary (or Michelle) look like an amateur -

[Mila]

I think that I can see a resemblance to her famous son, but not much to the actor to whom she is supposedly also related.

Nancy Hanks Lincoln

[murron]

Married 4 times and outlived 3 out of 4 of them.

[Mila]

My goodness, I just took a good look at her hands. She had some incredibly loooong fingers.

[AnAmericanMother]

Marfan’s Syndrome?

[x]

Joel A. Rogers and Dr. Auset Bakhufu have both written books documenting that at least five former presidents of the United States had Black people among their ancestors.

Are they at the "Lovenstein Institute"?

Andrew Jackson's parents were born in Ireland (Scots-Irish). That makes it very unlikely that he had African-American ancestry.

The story about Harding has been around for a long time. It was spread by a professor who hated him. We still don't know if it has any credibility at all, but it may be one reason for Harding's insecurity. It's been said that many early settlers of the Middle West may have been part-Black and blended into the White population over the years, but who can say whether they included Harding's own ancestors?

The story about Coolidge is based on the lack of knowledge of his maternal grandfather's ancestry and the man's last name: Moor. That's not much. But for what it's worth, here's Coolidge's mother, Victoria Josephine Moor Coolidge:

Again, who can really say?

[Ditter]

I have read that before. I looked it up because my grandfather looked very much like the man in the photo and his family came to Texas from eastern Tennessee. I was looking for the Melungeon surnames but I did not find them.

[savedbygrace]

I saw the pictures of his grandparents hanging in the hallway on the second floor

His grandparents were hung in the hallway? That's cruel.

;-)

[Joe 6-pack]

I've always been fascinated by such things since I was quite young. I remember one of Leonard Nimoy's In Search Of specials on the Roanoke Colony and speculation about the Lumbee Indians in North Carolina, some of whom have blue-gray eyes.

Where I grew up in western PA, there were a number of small coal towns dotting the map where groups of eastern europeans were herded directly from Ellis Island and sent into the mines. As late as the 1980's, you could find second or even third generation folks in these towns speaking with eastern european accents.

The Melungeons are particularly fascinating because the lack of concensus on where even the name comes from opens up a whole lot of possibilities that if proven, could force a significant rewrite of some of our history.

[Mila]

"Marfan’s Syndrome?"

Yes, that was my thought as well."

[Ditter]

I find human migration interesting as well. Whenever I go to Fredricksburg Texas I love hearing German spoken and in Louisiana people still speak some French. I don't know much about my family's history except they all came to Texas in wagons, horseback and probably on foot.

[wideminded]

Calvin Coolidge may well have been the whitest person who ever lived.

Coolidge himself claimed to have American Indian ancestors.

[wideminded]

Taft was a ladies' man

A 320 pound ladies' man.

[AnAmericanMother]

The problem with the Coolidge argument (aside from the obvious fact that his mama has about the most English features I've ever seen) is that "moor" equally applies to certain windswept, heather-encrusted features of the landscape in England . . . .

I think Harding himself had the last word. He didn't know himself - how could we know?

[AnAmericanMother]

True - with a bathtub to match.

I think what was meant is that he appreciated the ladies, but didn't let things go too far. That's always been a socially acceptable attitude, at least until recently!

[AdvisorB]

LOL!

Pictures of .......,

Amos Kling would have liked to have strung up those Hardings....along with Warren.

[Arnie001]

Who the hell cares about the racial background of Lincoln, et al? Does it matter?

And we call the Dems race-obsessed...

[Arnie001]

It’s comments like this that make Dems think us Repubs are pigs and racists. Let’s drag everything into the gutter!

[AdvisorB]

I don't particularly like John Dean, but Mr.Dean has written a riveting book about Warren G. Harding as part of Arthur Schlesinger, Jrs series entitled the "American Presidents."

Harding had quite a few achievements in his limited tenure as POTUS.

Dean makes the case that Harding was a reformist Conservative who was instrumental in creating the Bureau of the Budget which saved over a billion dollars in government outlays. Dean says that Harding's budget hawk approach set the stage for the dramatic prosperity that came to be known as the roaring twenties.