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Joe Biden – 46th President of the United States, 47th Vice President of the United States; mother was of Irish ancestry, father of partial Irish ancestry Edward P. Boland – US Congressman [ 2 ] James E. Boyd – Omaha mayor [ 3 ]
Andrew Jackson, 7th U.S. President (1829–1837) James K. Polk, 11th U.S. President (1845–1849) James Buchanan, 15th U.S. President (1857–1861) Andrew Johnson, 17th U.S. President (1865–1869) Ulysses S. Grant, 18th U.S. President (1869–1877) Chester A. Arthur, 21st U.S. President (1881–1885) Grover Cleveland, 22nd & 24th U.S. President (1885–1889 & 1893–1897) Benjamin Harrison ...
The most common ancestry of U.S. presidents is English, due to its origins as a group of former English colonies. With the exception of Martin Van Buren and possibly Dwight D. Eisenhower , [ 1 ] every president has ancestors from the British Isles ; Van Buren was of Dutch ( New Netherlander ) lineage and Eisenhower was of German ( Pennsylvania ...
At least 22 presidents of the United States have some Irish ancestral origins, [90] although the extent of this varies. For instance, President Clinton claims Irish ancestry despite there being no documentation of any of his ancestors coming from Ireland, while Kennedy has strongly documented Irish origins. Ronald Reagan's great-grandfather was ...
In the United States Census, 2000, 4.3 million Americans (1.5% of the U.S. population) claimed Scotch-Irish ancestry. [citation needed] Areas with greatest proportion of reported Scotch-Irish ancestry. The author Jim Webb suggests that the true number of people with some Scotch-Irish heritage in the United States is in the region of 27 million ...
First president of entirely Irish descent. [300] First president who had no ancestry from the American colonial period. [300] First president to have previously served in the United States Navy. [301] First president to receive the Purple Heart, awarded in 1943 after he was wounded in action aboard PT-109. [302] [303]
By 1790, approximately 400,000 people of Irish birth or ancestry lived in the United States (or greater than 10 percent of the total population of approximately 3.9 million). [18] [69] The U.S. Bureau of the Census estimates 2% of the United States population in 1776 was of native Irish heritage. [70]
The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, [1] indirectly elected to a four-year term via the Electoral College. [2] Under the U.S. Constitution, the officeholder leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces. [3] The ...