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[91] [2]: 8 Irish genealogists presented Joe Biden with his Irish maternal family history on his visit there in 2016. [92] Joe's matrilineal great-grandfather (Geraldine's father), Edward Francis Blewitt, [93] the child of Irish emigrants from Rappagh, Ballina, County Mayo, was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate.
The US president has followed his family tree back to Ireland. Imy Brighty-Potts finds out how you can do the same. How to trace your Irish roots like Joe Biden
Barack Obama is thus far the only president to have ancestry from outside of Europe; his paternal family is of Kenyan Luo ancestry. He is also believed to be a direct descendant of John Punch, a colonial-era slave born in modern-day Cameroon. [2] There is no evidence that any president has had Indigenous American ancestry.
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The US president spent the early part of the day in Northern Ireland before visiting ancestral homelands in the south. In Pictures: Joe Biden explores family roots on first full day of Irish visit ...
By February 2024, the subject of Joe Biden's 81 years of age and associated frailties was a central topic of news coverage, especially after the special counsel report in the Joe Biden classified documents incident, and reports indicated that Jill Biden often sought to shield her husband from excessively long appearances or making impromptu ...
US president immensely proud of heritage and loves to quote Yeats and Heaney
She researched Michelle Obama's family tree, [9] researched Annie Moore, the first immigrant through Ellis Island, [1] traced Barack Obama's roots to Moneygall, Ireland, [10] [3] [11] and discovered that Al Sharpton’s great-grandfather had been owned by relatives of Strom Thurmond. [12] She also found out that Joe Biden is "roughly five ...