{"id":233,"date":"2019-02-18T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buildnmap.com\/blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2019-09-12T21:05:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T01:05:04","slug":"22-happy-presidents-day-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buildnmap.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/18\/22-happy-presidents-day-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"#22: Happy Presidents\u2019 Day Weekend!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. George Washington — <\/strong>Can trace his family\u2019s presence in North America from his great-grandfather John Washington who migrated from England to Virginia in 1694.<\/li>\n
  2. John Adams — <\/strong>Born in Massachusetts in 1792, John Adams was a 4th-generation descendant of Henry Adams who immigrated from England to Massachusetts Bay Colony about 1636.<\/li>\n
  3. Thomas Jefferson — <\/strong>His ancestor came from Wales to Virginia.<\/li>\n
  4. James Madison — <\/strong>His paternal family line is of English descent.<\/li>\n
  5. James Monroe — <\/strong>His paternal great-grandfather immigrated to America from Scotland in the mid-17th century.<\/li>\n
  6. John Quincy Adams — <\/strong>Like his father John, he is a descendant of Henry Adams.<\/li>\n
  7. Andrew Jackson — <\/strong>His genealogy shows that he descended from Richard Jackson (1505-1562) from England.<\/li>\n
  8. Martin Van Buren — <\/strong>His ancestry was Dutch.<\/li>\n
  9. William Henry Harrison — <\/strong>The Harrison family line comes from England.<\/li>\n
  10. John Tyler — <\/strong>The Tyler family came to American from England.<\/li>\n
  11. James K. Polk — <\/strong>Robert Pollock in 1659 emigrated from Ireland to Maryland accompanied by his wife and children. “Polk” was derived from Pollock.<\/li>\n
  12. Zachary Taylor — <\/strong>He was a descendant of King Edward I of England, as well as Mayflower passengers Isaac Allerton and William Brewster.<\/li>\n
  13. Millard Fillmore — <\/strong>His maternal side migrated to the United States from England in the early 17th century.<\/li>\n
  14. Franklin Pierce — <\/strong>Thomas Pierce, an ancestor of the family, migrated from England to the US in the 17th century.<\/li>\n
  15. James Buchanan — <\/strong>The Buchanans were Scotch-Irish; in 1783, James, Sr., emigrated from Ireland.<\/li>\n
  16. Abraham Lincoln — <\/strong>The Lincoln family came to the United States in the 17th century from England.<\/li>\n
  17. Andrew Johnson — <\/strong>His paternal side of the family descended from England.<\/li>\n
  18. Ulysses S. Grant — <\/strong>Grant has English, Scottish and Irish lineage.<\/li>\n
  19. Rutherford B. Hayes — <\/strong>Hayes is of English and Scottish descent.<\/li>\n
  20. James A. Garfield — <\/strong>Garfield was born of English ancestry.<\/li>\n
  21. Chester A. Arthur — <\/strong>His father was Scotch-Irish and his mother was of English and Welsh descent.<\/li>\n
  22. Grover Cleveland — <\/strong>He is a descendant of ancestors from England.<\/li>\n
  23. Benjamin Harrison — <\/strong>The Harrisons originate from England. \u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n
  24. Grover Cleveland <\/strong>(See 22<\/em>)<\/li>\n
  25. William McKinley — <\/strong>The McKinleys were of English and Scots-Irish descent.<\/li>\n
  26. Theodore Roosevelt — <\/strong>The Roosevelts were all descendants of Claes van Roosevelt, who was a part of the original Dutch immigrants who settled in New Amsterdam in the 1640’s.<\/li>\n
  27. William Howard Taft — <\/strong>The first known ancestor of Taft came from Ireland and he also has some English lineage.<\/li>\n
  28. Woodrow Wilson — <\/strong>Woodrow Wilson was the son of an immigrant mother from England, and the grandson of immigrant grandparents from Ireland and Scotland.<\/li>\n
  29. Warren G. Harding — <\/strong>In the 17th century Warren G. Harding\u2019s paternal side descended from England.<\/li>\n
  30. Calvin Coolidge — <\/strong>The Coolidge family migrated to the United States in the 17th century from England.<\/li>\n
  31. Herbert Hoover — <\/strong>Hoover (the family\u2019s original name was Huber) was of German-Swiss and English ancestry on his father\u2019s side and of Irish-Canadian ancestry on his mother\u2019s side.<\/li>\n
  32. Franklin D. Roosevelt — <\/strong>Franklin D. Roosevelt’s family history dates back to Claes van Roosevelt, the Dutch immigrant who brought the Roosevelts to New York City in the early 1600s.<\/li>\n
  33. Harry S. Truman — <\/strong>His ancestry was predominantly English, with a few German, French and Scottish lines.<\/li>\n
  34. Dwight D. Eisenhower — <\/strong>The Eisenhower family migrated to the United States from Germany.<\/li>\n
  35. John F. Kennedy — <\/strong>The Fitzgerald family was from western Ireland. Between 1846 and 1855, they migrated to America to escape the devastating potato famine. JFK was the first Irish-Catholic President.<\/li>\n
  36. Lyndon B. Johnson — <\/strong>Johnson was of English, German and Ulster Scots ancestry.<\/li>\n
  37. Richard Nixon — <\/strong>The Nixon family immigrated to the United States from northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.<\/li>\n
  38. Gerald Ford — <\/strong>Ford is a descendant of Philip King, who emigrated from England to Philadelphia around 1730.<\/li>\n
  39. Jimmy Carter — <\/strong>Thomas Carter, Sr. in 1637, came from England to Virginia.<\/li>\n
  40. \u00a0Ronald Reagan — <\/strong>He was 50 percent Irish, 25 percent Scottish and 25 percent English.<\/li>\n
  41. George H. W. Bush — <\/strong>The Bush family is primarily of English and German descent. The Bush family traces its European origin to the 17th century. <\/strong><\/li>\n
  42. Bill Clinton — <\/strong>Clinton has Irish ancestry from both parents and traces of PresidentEnglish, German and Ulster Scots ancestry.<\/li>\n
  43. George W. Bush <\/strong>— (The same as 41)<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  44. Barack Obama — <\/strong>Obama\u2019s father was from Kenya and a member of Kenya’s Luo ethnic group. Obama\u2019s mother is of Irish and English decent.<\/li>\n
  45. Donald Trump — <\/strong>On October 7, 1885, Friedrich Trump, a 16-year-old German, bought a one-way ticket to America.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This blog is about the proposed National Museum of the American People which is about the making of the American People. The blog will be reporting regularly on a host of NMAP topics, American ethnic group histories, related museums, scholarship centered on the museum\u2019s focus, relevant census and other demographic data, and pertinent political issues. The museum is a work in progress and we welcome thoughtful suggestions.<\/em><\/p>\n

    Sam Eskenazi, Director, Coalition for the National Museum of the American People<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    George Washington — Can trace his family\u2019s presence in North America from his great-grandfather John Washington who migrated from England to Virginia in 1694. John Adams — Born in Massachusetts in 1792, John Adams was a 4th-generation descendant of Henry Adams who immigrated from England to Massachusetts Bay Colony about 1636. Thomas Jefferson — His … <\/p>\n

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