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Aug 28, 2010, Washington DC
By Pieter Nosworthy
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Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 “No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”
The U.S. Constitution was adopted in 1787. The first Presidents, at a minimum, had to be a US citizen as of 1787 (the last was Zachary Taylor). If born after 1787, eligible presidents must be born on US territory to parents (plural) of US citizenship (i.e. Natural Born Citizen or NBC).
George Washington (1789-1797) Born: February 22, 1732 in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
John Adams (1797-1801) Born: October 30 1735 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts.
Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809) Born: April 13, 1743 in Albemarle County, Virginia.
James Madison (1809-1817) Born: March 16, 1751 in Port Conway, King George, Virginia.
James Monroe (1817-1825) Born: April 28th, 1758 in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
John Quincy Adams (1825-1829) Born: July 11, 1767 in Braintree, Massachusetts.
Andrew Jackson (1829-1837) Born: March 15, 1767 in Waxhaw, South Carolina.
Martin Van Buren (1837-1841) Born: On December 5, 1782 in Columbia, New York.
William Henry Harrison (1841) Born: February 9, 1773 in Charles City County, Virginia.
NBC John Tyler (1841-1845) Born: March 29, 1790 in Charles City County, Virginia Father- John TYLER III was born about 1757 in Charles City, Virginia. Mother- Mary ARMISTEAD was born in 1761 in York Co., Virginia.
NBC James K. Polk (1845-1849) Born: November 2, 1795 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Father- James Samuel Polk was born in North Carolina in 1772. Mother- Jane Knox was born in 1776 at unknown location (possible Scottish immigrant). Unknown date of parent’s marriage. Mother was a religious woman and thus unlikely her children were born out of wedlock. Statutory laws would have granted mother citizenship upon marriage, if she was an immigrant, during that period.
Zachary Taylor (1849-1850) Born: November 24, 1784 in Orange County, Virginia.
NBC Millard Fillmore (1850-1853) Born: January 7, 1800 in Cayuga County, New York. Father- Nathaniel Fillmore was born April 19, 1771 in Bennington, Vermont. Mother- Phoebe Millard was born 1780 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
NBC Franklin Pierce (1853-1857) Born: November 23, 1804 in Hillsboro, New Hampshire. Father- Benjamin Pierce was born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts (December 25, 1757) Mother- Anna Kendrick was born in Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire on October 30, 1768.
NBC James Buchanan (1857-1861) Born: April 23, 1791 in Cove Gap near Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. Father- James Buchanan was born on 1761 in Ramelton, Donegal, Ireland. Age 22 (1783) came to USA to live with mother’s brother, Joshua in Gettysburg, Pa. Mother- Elizabeth Speer was born on 1767 in Stony Batter, Franklin, (Or Lancaster Co.) Pennsylvania.
NBC Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865) Born: February 12, 1809, in Hodgenville, Hardin County, Kentucky. Father- THOMAS LINCOLN was born January 6, 1778 in Rockingham County, Virginia. Mother- NANCY HANKS was born on February 5, 1784, in Hampshire County, (West) Virginia.
NBC Andrew Johnson (1865-1869) Born: December 29, 1808 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Father- Jacob Johnson was born circa 1778. Some sources indicate that he was born in Newcastle, England and sailed to America around 1795, but other sources indicate that he was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, and that it was his grandfather (and possible namesake) who sailed to North America from England. Mother- Mary “Polly” McDonough was born 1783 in ??? (possible Irish immigrant). Parents married September 9, 1801. Mother automatically granted citizenship upon marriage, if she was an immigrant, due to naturalization statutes of that period.
NBC Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877) born on April 27, 1822 at Point Pleasant, Ohio as Hiram Ulysses Grant. Father- Jesse Root Grant born near Greensburg, Pennsylvania, on January 23, 1794, Mother- Hannah Simpson was born on November 23, 1798 at Horsham, PA.
NBC Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881) Born: October 4, 1822 in Delaware, Ohio. Father- Rutherford Hayes was born January 4, 1787 in Brattleboro, Vermont. Mother- Sophia Birchard was born April 15, 1792 in Wilmington, Vermont.
NBC James A. Garfield (1881) Born: November 19, 1831, in Orange, Ohio. Father- Abram Garfield was born December 28, 1799 in Otsego County, Ohio. Mother- Eliza Ballou was born September 21, 1801 in Richmond, New Hampshire.
Chester Arthur (1881-1885) Born: October 5, 1829 in Fairfield, Vermont. Father- William Arthur, when eighteen years of age, emigrated from Co. Antrim, Ireland. Father did not become a naturalized citizen until 14 years after Chester Arthur’s birth. Mother- Malvina Stone born April 29, 1802 in Berkshire, Franklin, Vermont. Chester Arthur born with dual citizenship of the United Kingdom and the United States. Chester Arthur lied numerous times about his past to obfuscate his ineligibility to hold Vice-Presidential and Presidential office. Burned all personal records upon his death.
NBC Grover Cleveland (1885-1889) Born: March 18, 1837 in Caldwell, New Jersey. Father- Richard Falley Cleveland was born February 4, 1806 in Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland. Mother- Ann Neal was born July 9, 1830 in Windham, Windham County, Connecticut.
NBC Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893) Born: August 20, 1833 in North Bend, Ohio. Father- John Scott Harrison was born in Vincennes, Knox County, Indiana on October 4, 1804. Mother- Elizabeth Ramsey Irwin was Born on July 18, 1810in Mercerburg, Pennsylvania.
NBC Grover Cleveland (1893-1897)
NBC William McKinley (1897-1901) Born: January 29, 1843 in Niles, Ohio. Father- William McKinley, Sr. was born on November 15, 1807 in Pine Twp. Mercer Co., PA. Mother- Nancy Campbell Allison was born April 22, 1809 in New Lisbon, OH.
NBC Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) Born: October 27, 1858 in New York, New York. Father- Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. was born September 22, 1831 in the state of New York. Mother- Mittie Bulloch was born in Hartford, Connecticut on July 8, 1835. Raised in Roswell, GA.
NBC William Howard Taft (1909-1913) Born: September 15, 1857 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Father- Alphonso Taft was born in Townshend, Vermont on November 5, 1810. Mother- Louisa “Louise” Maria Torrey was born in Boston, Massachusetts on September 11, 1827.
NBC Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) Born: December 28, 1856 in Staunton, Virginia. Father- Reverend Dr. Joseph Ruggles Wilson was born in Steubenville, Ohio in 1822. Mother- Jessie Janet Woodrow was born in born in Carlisle, England in 1826. Parents married prior to 1851, mother automatically gained citizenship upon marriage in accordance with naturalization statutes of the period.
NBC Warren G. Harding (1921-1923) Born: November 2, 1865 in Corsica (Blooming Grove), Ohio. Father- Dr. George Tyron Harding, Sr. was born on June 12, 1844 in Blooming Grove, OH. Mother- Phoebe Elizabeth (Dickerson) was born on December 21, 1843 in Blooming Grove, OH.
NBC Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929) Born: July 4, 1872 in Plymouth, Vermont. Father- John Calvin Coolidge was born on November 30, 1845 in Plymouth, Windsor Co., VT. Mother- Victoria Josephine Moor was born on March 14, 1846 in Plymouth, Windsor Co., VT.
NBC Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) Born: August 10, 1874 in West Branch, Iowa. Father- Jesse Hoover was born on September 2, 1846 in Tuscarawas, Ohio. Mother- Hulda Randall Minthorn was born on May 4, 1848 in Norwich, Ontario, Canada. Parents married in 1870 and mother automatically gained citizenship in accordance with the naturalization statutes of the period.
NBC Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945) Born: January 30, 1882 in Hyde Park, New York. Father- James Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York on July 16, 1828. Mother- Mary Rebecca Aspinwall was born on December 20, 1809 in New York City, New York.
NBC Harry S Truman (1945-1953) Born: May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri. Father- John Anderson Truman was born on December 5, 1851 in Jackson County, Missouri. Mother- Martha Ellen Young was born on November 25, 1852 in Jackson County, Missouri.
NBC Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961) Born: October 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas. Father- David Eisenhower was born on September 23, 1863 in Elizabethville, Dauphin, Pennsylvania. Mother- Ida Elizabeth Stover was born in Mount Sidney, Virginia on May 1, 1862.
NBC John F. Kennedy (1961-1963) Born: May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. Father- Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr was born in Boston, Massachusetts on September 6, 1888. Mother- Rose Fitzgerald was born in Boston, Massachusetts on July 22, 1890.
NBC Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969) Born: August 27, 1908 near Stonewall, Texas. Father- Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr. was born in Buda, Texas on October 11, 1877. Mother- Rebekah Baines was born on June 26, 1881, at McKinney, Texas.
NBC Richard Nixon (1969-1974) Born: January 9, 1913 in Yorba Linda, California. Father- Francis A. Nixon was born in Vinton County, Ohio on December 3, 1879. Mother- Hannah Milhous was born in Jennings County, Indiana on March 7, 1885.
NBC Gerald Ford (1974-1977) Born: July 14, 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska. Father- Leslie Lynch King, Sr. was born in Chadron, Nebraska on July 25, 1884. Mother- Dorothy Ayer Gardner was born in Harvard, Illinois on February 27, 1892.
NBC Jimmy Carter (1977-1981) Born: October 1, 1924 in Plains, Georgia. Father- James Earl Carter was born in Arlington, Georgia on September 12, 1894. Mother- Bessie Lillian Gordy was born in Richland, Georgia on August 15, 1898.
NBC Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) Born: February 6, 1911, in Tampico, Illinois. Father- John “Jack” Reagan was born in Fulton, Whiteside Co., IL on July 13, 1883. Mother- Nelle Clyde Wilson was born in Fulton, Whiteside Co., IL on July 24, 1883.
NBC George H. W. Bush (1989-1993) Born: June 12, 1924 in Milton, Massachusetts. Father- Prescott Sheldon Bush was born in Columbus, Ohio on May 15, 1895. Mother- Dorothy Wear Walker was born near Walker’s Point, in York County, Maine on July 1, 1901.
NBC Bill Clinton (1993-2001) Born: August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas. Father- William Jefferson Blythe, Jr. was born in Sherman, Texas on February 27, 1918. Mother- Virginia Dell Cassidy was born in Bodcaw, Arkansas on June 6, 1923.
NBC George W. Bush (2001-2009) Born: July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Conn. Father- George H. W. Bush (1989-1993) Mother- Barbara Bush was born in Flushing, Queens, New York City on June 8, 1925.
Barack Hussein Obama II (2009-) Born: August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Father- Barack Obama, Sr. was born in Kanyadhiang village, Rachuonyo District, Lake Victoria, Kendu Bay, Kenya (at the time a colony of the British Empire) in 1936. Mother- Stanley Ann Dunham, later know as Ann Dunham Soetoro after divorce from Obama II’s father, was born at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas on November 29, 1942. Father was not a naturalized citizen at the time of his birth. Barack Obama II was born with dual citizenship of the United Kingdom and the United States. Possible adoption by Indonesian father coupled with continuance of Indonesian citizenship as an adult (travel to Pakistan, possible US college enrollment as a foreign student) could negate US citizenship or at least imply another dual citizenship. Circumstantial evidence exists Obama II born in Kenya and his parents later registered the birth in Hawaii. If born in Kenya, Obama II is not a US citizen at all due to 1952 statute not allowing mother to convey citizenship due to her age and time residing in United States past the age of 14.
All POW-MIA
7 responses so far ↓
1 Creativeogre // Dec 18, 2008 at 12:34 pm
There is a very good article on Leo Donofrio’s site, that better explains in detail the Chester Authur issue.
http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/president-chester-arthur-et-al-why-they-aren%E2%80%99t-precedent-for-obama%E2%80%99s-eligibility/
To better understand the pending actions before the Supreme Court, watch the video below…
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6771521759788800576&hl=en
2 Leavingroch // Dec 18, 2008 at 2:40 pm
I don’t want to play the devils advocate but what the hell….. and correct me if I am wrong.
It can’t be this simple…
A) if being natural born means BOTH parents also have to be born here, then there would have been no question (whether Obama was born here or not) that he is NOT allowed and it wouldn’t be an issue. Everyone knows his father wasn’t born here. There has to be more to it. So that is done.
B) IF he was born here and even if he had citizenship in Indonesia, he HAS been back here for more then 14 yrs and I am sure he is a citizen yet again of the great USA..The law doesn’t say that he couldn’t have been a NBC, leave and become a citizen there and then return and become a citizen here again, he was born here and has been here for at least 14 yrs. So that is done.
that leaves the question as to WHERE he was born. THAT is the only question I believe as an issue. And even that is questionable since no one has proof he wasn’t born here.
And why doesn’t a mothers citizenship extend to her baby because of age? What does her age have to do with it??
Not that I don’t want to see proof, since it is a question. I believe proof should be shown once and for all. But really, the father thing is it really an issue? The age of the mother is THAT really an issue?
3 phantomlord // Dec 18, 2008 at 4:24 pm
The citizenship laws are actually fairly convoluted… so yeah, there is a difference between the father and mother’s citizenship status and even the age of the mother when conveying citizenship to a child born OUTSIDE the US. Anyone born on US soil is automatically a natural born citizen even if neither parent is a US citizen…
4 Creativeogre // Dec 18, 2008 at 5:10 pm
The Framers of the Constitution, at the time of their birth, were also British Citizens and that’s why the Framers declared that, while they were Citizens of the United States, they themselves were not “natural born Citizens”. Hence their inclusion of the grandfather clause in Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution:
No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution shall be eligible to the Office of President;
That’s it right there. (Emphasis added.)
The Framers wanted to make themselves eligible to be President, but they didn’t want future generations to be Governed by a Commander In Chief who had split loyalty to another Country. The Framers were comfortable making an exception for themselves. They did, after all, create the Constitution. But they were not comfortable with the possibility of future generations of Presidents being born under the jurisdiction of Foreign Powers, especially Great Britain and its monarchy, who the Framers and Colonists fought so hard in the American Revolution to be free of.
The Framers declared themselves not eligible to be President as “natural born Citizens”, so they wrote the grandfather clause in for the limited exception of allowing themselves to be eligible to the Presidency in the early formative years of our infant nation.
But nobody alive today can claim eligibility to be President under the grandfather clause since nobody alive today was a citizen of the US at the time the Constitution was adopted.
The Framers distinguished between “natural born Citizens” and all other “Citizens”. And that’s why it’s important to note the 14th Amendment only confers the title of “Citizen”, not “natural born Citizen”. The Framers were Citizens, but they weren’t natural born Citizens. They put the stigma of not being natural born Citizens on themselves in the Constitution and they are the ones who wrote the Document.
Since the the Framers didn’t consider themselves to have been “natural born Citizens” due to their having been subject to British jurisdiction at their birth, then Senator Obama, having also been subject to British jurisdiction at the time of his birth, also cannot be considered a “natural born Citizen” of the United States.
5 Whatabout... // Jul 25, 2009 at 9:57 pm
How was Senator Obama under British jurisdiction at the time of his birth? He was born in the United States and to a United States born mother. And at the same time Obama Sr. was NOT a diplomat but instead a student.
Woodrow Wilson’s mother was also foreign born but why is there no mention of this case? Mainly because the authors of this ridiculous argument don’t want anybody to really debate it logically.
Let’s break it down (logically). Wilson’s mother became a citizen through her marriage to her HUSBAND. Why wasn’t Obama Sr. able to become a citizen immediately through his marriage to his WIFE? Because there are still repressive laws that are anti-equality. Basically MEN have more power than WOMEN. All things being equal, President Wilson and President Obama were born in exact situations regarding BOTH parents not being citizens with the father and mother being switched.
People who argue against Obama’s Presidency have every right to as their constitutional rights of freedom of speech is guaranteed but they really need to look deep inside themselves and ask? “Why am I being so hateful in this great nation of the United States?”
BTW, this is coming from logical arbitrator with no political affiliation or agendas as I am not associated with any parties.
6 phantomlord // Jul 25, 2009 at 11:08 pm
All of the banter back and forth on the issue could be settled with one single action. Simply release Obama’s long form birth certificate.
Obama has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting to keep it private and requested that Hawaii even go so far as to seal his birth records. Why? He could end the whole thing with a very simple action that reveals no more about him than a Presidential campaign vetting.
7 rochester_veteran // Jul 26, 2009 at 11:20 am
Whatabout… posted:
People who argue against Obama’s Presidency have every right to as their constitutional rights of freedom of speech is guaranteed but they really need to look deep inside themselves and ask? “Why am I being so hateful in this great nation of the United States?”
Who’s being hateful? Nobody here. For sure we stand opposed to a President who’s trying to take our nation down the road of big-government socialism.
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