61% of American Presidents were/are of Scots descent!!! American Presidents with a Scottish Ethnic Background: ◾Thomas Jefferson ◾Benjamin Harrison ◾James Madison ◾William McKinley ◾James Monroe ◾Theodore Roosevelt ◾Andrew Jackson ◾William H. Taft ◾William H. Harrison ◾Woodrow Wilson ◾James K. Polk ◾Warren G. Harding ◾Zachary Taylor ◾Calvin Coolidge ◾James Buchannan ◾Harry S. Truman ◾Andrew Johnson ◾Lyndon B. Johnson ◾Ulysses S. Grant ◾Richard M. Nixon ◾Rutherford B. Hayes ◾Ronald Reagan ◾Chester A. Arthur ◾Jimmy Carter ◾Grover Cleveland ◾John Fitzgerald Kennedy Even though none of the sources include him, Barack Obama also has a smidge of Scottish DNA through his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was born in Wichita, Kansas, and was of mostly English ancestry, along with Scottish, Irish, German, and Swiss. I also think further investigation would reveal that Gerald Ford belongs on here, too. His maternal grandmother was an Ayr and his actual birth surname was King, which is found in Scotland, Ireland, and England, as you all know, and can be of Gaelic origin. - 35 U.S. Supreme Court Justices, 25 of them are in the Great Americans Hall of Fame. - Almost 1/2 of the Secretaries of U.S. Treasury and 1/3 of the Secretaries of State were Scots. - 19 of the signatures on the Declaration of Independence were from Scots descent. - 9 of the 13 colony governors made in the new USA were Scots. - James Pollock, of Scots descent, put the slogan "In God We Trust" on American coins!
Posted on: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 15:36:35 +0000
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