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>Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 16:52:52 -0700 >From: Patricia Etter <Patricia.Etter@asu.edu> >Subject: REPLY: Presidents with Indian Ancestry? > >Charles Curtis, 1870-1936, (Kansa-Kaw/Osage) was the first and only person >of Native Ancestry to hold the office of Vice-President of the U.S., under >Herbert Hoover. In addition he served in both the House and Senate and >service totaled some 40 years. We have no record of a Native American >serving as President. See _Native North American Firsts_, AnCita Benally and >Karen Swisher, eds., Gale Publishing, 1998. > >Patricia A. Etter >Curator, Labriola National American Data Center >Arizona State University Sorry that I am responding to this post so late but I have been off-line for some time. Maybe the work by Karen Swisher will have to be updated since President Clinton mentioned during the recent Race Committee discussions chaired by John Hope Franklin that he was of American Indian descent. Of course the discussion should also be expanded to include Prime Ministers since Winston Churchill's mother can trace her background through the Seneca Nation of New York. Ron Andrade
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