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ATCJeff
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Woo hoo!!!
Question: Everyone believes that Barack Obama is the first minority to ever be President of the United States. Technically, that is incorrect. Who is the first minority (and their heritage) to ever hold the office of President of the United States?peterson82
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I remember hearing someone was part native american, but I cannot recall who that is without looking it up.
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I remember hearing someone was part native american, but I cannot recall who that is without looking it up.
you're on the right track... it's perfectly legal in this Trivia game to google it or Ask Jeeves... that's why I carefully phrased the question
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Was it Thomas Jefferson?
I believe he was part native American Indian and part African American.
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Nope... no Native American blood running through T.Jefferson as far as I know but some of his kids were African American... keep trying ...
O.K. hint: here's the language of the question you should focus on --- "hold the office" --- who can "hold the office?"Last edited:
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Then it would probably be Abe Lincoln. He was supposedly part African American.
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Nope... just edited my last post with the hint: the key is "hold the office" --- that person may have just by mere administrative line of succession (by Constitutional provision) "held the office" during a Presidential absence.Probably going to blow this, but ...
The first President of the US was ... John Hanson (1782). Next were :
Elias Boudinot (1783),
Thomas Mifflin (1784),
Richard Henry Lee (1785),
Nathan Gorman (1786),
Arthur St. Clair (1787), and
Cyrus Griffin (1788)
Geo Washington took office in 1789. Apparently there is some doubt about whether Hanson has black ancestry - there is a possibility that his grandfather was a negro.
This is according to: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1771850/posts
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Good read Doc... unfortunately still not the answer I was looking for. There is no doubt as to this person's ancestry.
Another hint: when the President is administratively "vacant" from the office, who is technically the President? so, a vice president holds the office of President --- start digging into their ancestry.
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Hanson was not a President under our Constitution. Washington was the first President.
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Absolutely correct ATCJeff... I tried to point that out but I stumbled over my words. Technically, Hanson was the President of a Confederation waiting to become a Union of States. It appears from Doc's read that Hanson did an admiral job of biding time.
OT --- Great friggin' avatar Jeff ... if GT beats the U then we probably get the turtles in the ACC championship. Oh, and that little scuffle with the dawgs might be a pleasant surprise this year..
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please don't get me start about my Jackets. We should be undefeated. I'll be there Thursday night with the whole family. Kids get to check in late Friday. Michael, my middle son, has a ticket to Athens next Saturday. Compliments of his girlfriend's family.(Dawg fans...I know...I just look the other way...there's always a chance to convert to the good side) He says he's gonna where his Gold. God help him.
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OK last hint(s): before the passage of the 25th amendment which requires the POTUS to pass his office to the VP during medical procedures requiring sedation, the absense of the President from the country meant that, in the US, the VP was the ceremonial head of state and thus was allowed to "hold the office" to officially meet with visiting heads of state. So, perhaps during a presidential goodwill tour to say, I don't know, Latin America (where the POTUS might have been the target of an Argentinian Anarchist assassination plot), who was the VP (the last one to ever wear a beard or moustache while in office) that was "holding the office," if only as the ceremonial head of state?
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Woo Hoo! I'll be clearer with my questions next time -- apologies Dr.F. Charles Curtis was part-Kaw Indian (enough to be a tribe member and live on tribal land) and actually spent some of his formative years on the Kaw Reservation being raised by his grandmother.
The board is yours ATCJeff!Great job guys! That was fun! Learned something new today!
Kaw Indian preceded Obama on presidential ticket
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WASHINGTON — Democrat Barack Obama is the first person of color to be a major-party nominee for president, but he's not the first to be on a presidential ticket.
Charles Curtis, a member of the Kaw Indian tribe, was vice president under Herbert Hoover. He served from 1929 to 1933. Curtis, a senator from Kansas, had been the Senate's majority leader and an unsuccessful rival of Hoover's for the 1928 Republican presidential nomination.
Curtis was a great-great-grandson of the Kaw chief White Plume, who offered his help to the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804. Born in 1860, Curtis spent much of his childhood on the Kaw tribe's reservation near Topeka and spoke the Kaw tribal language before he learned English.
In 1873, when his grandparents and other Kaw tribal members were forced to relocate to Oklahoma, Curtis' grandmother talked him out of accompanying his relatives. Instead, he went to school in Topeka, eventually becoming a lawyer and getting into politics.
Curtis was strongly partisan: According to the Senate Historical Office, he often told audiences he was "one-eighth Kaw Indian and 100% Republican." He was a master at dealmaking.
First elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1892, Curtis soon became chairman of the Indian Affairs Committee. He drafted the Curtis Act of 1898, which abridged many tribes' rights under treaties to govern themselves and put the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs in charge of overseeing mineral and oil resources on tribal lands.
Curtis was first elected to the Senate in 1907. He opposed Hoover for the 1928 presidential nomination, then became Hoover's running mate in a compromise meant to shore up Republican support in Kansas and other farm states.
His rivalry with Hoover left him marginalized as vice president, and he spent much of his time presiding over the Senate.
After Hoover was defeated by Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, Curtis remained in Washington, where he died in 1936.
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please don't get me start about my Jackets. We should be undefeated. I'll be there Thursday night with the whole family. Kids get to check in late Friday. Michael, my middle son, has a ticket to Athens next Saturday. Compliments of his girlfriend's family.(Dawg fans...I know...I just look the other way...there's always a chance to convert to the good side) He says he's gonna where his Gold. God help him.
Wow, I really need to learn to use the correct form of the word. My teacher would be ashame.Similar threads
