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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs Kamala the first ever fully 'First Generation American' on a presidential ticket?
That is to say the first person on a presidential ticket whose parents were both immigrants.
RockRaven
(15,096 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(15,711 posts)Siwsan
(26,333 posts)I checked as far as Madison - still all born on this side of the 'pond'. So, not immigrants.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,711 posts)Siwsan
(26,333 posts)I only checked the first 4 Presidents.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)Romney's father was actually born in Mexico.
McCain himself was born in the Canal Zone (when it was an American "possession," and of course his parents were military, so he was a citizen).
Maybe if we go back to the first 7-8 presidents, the ones who were born before 1776 (so they were born in "Greater Britain" , probably one or two of them had both parents born Britain.?
Siwsan
(26,333 posts)Glorfindel
(9,747 posts)N/T
Siwsan
(26,333 posts)I looked only as far as Madison.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)Or whatever you call it, a possession. So it was more maybe like moving from one British colony to another until 1776 when we became a different country. Not sure that's "immigration" in the sense of parents born in another country and moving here. (Of course, Ireland WAS another country, but it wasn't allowed to be for another 150 years.)
nsd
(2,406 posts)They were from Greece.
ETA: A few others not mentioned previously in this thread had one immigrant parent (Edmund Muskie, Spiro Agnew).