Barack Obama is widely known as the United States' first black
president. But is he really the country's first African-American
commander-in-chief? Of course author Toni Morrison famously declared that former president Bill Clinton was really the nation's first black head of state, however, rumor has it there are six other former presidents who had African-American ancestry. Several scholars have discussed the genealogy of these presidents in the past, and the debate was reignited after Obama was elected in 2008.
Check out the pictures below for a list of former heads of state who allegedly were descendants of African-Americans.
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
In his 2001 book, 'Black People And Their Place in History,' Dr. Leroy Vaughn
cites an article written in the Virginia Magazine of History that the
country's seventh president was the son of an Irish woman who married a
black man. The magazine also stated that Jackson's oldest brother had
been sold as a slave.
This assertion remains unconfirmed.
Warren Harding
The country's 29th president, never denied his black heritage. According to Rogers,
"Harding had black ancestors between both sets of parents. William
Chancellor, a white professor of economics and politics at Wooster
College in Ohio, wrote a book on the Harding family genealogy and
identified Black ancestors among both parents of President Harding.
Justice Department agents allegedly bought and destroyed all copies of
this book. Chancellor also said that Harding's only academic credentials
included education at Iberia College, which was founded in order to
educate fugitive slaves."
Abraham Lincoln
The country's 16th president is widely known as "The Great Emancipator," but in his book, Rogers wrote that Lincoln was in fact the illegitimate son of an African man, and that his mother was said to have admitted that he was the progeny of a black man.
This assertion has yet to be confirmed.
Calvin Coolidge
In his book, Dr. Vaughn claimed
that the nation's 30th president also had black ancestry, writing
Coolidge "claimed his mother was dark because of mixed Indian ancestry.
Coolidge's mother's maiden name was ‘Moor’, in Europe the name was given
to all blacks. Dr. Auset Bakhufu says that by 1800 the New England
Indian was hardly any longer pure Indian, because they had mixed so
often with Blacks."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dr. Auset Bakhufu includes the 34th president in his book 'Six Black Presidents: Black Blood : White Masks USA,' saying Eisenhower's mother, Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower, an anti-war advocate, was part black.
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