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Oct 31, 2020 • 15 tweets • 7 min read
Half of all US Presidents (22 out of 44) have made claims of Irish ancestry. Like a lot of things in history, the evidence is stronger for some than it is for others, but here's a rundown of which Presidents come from where... #VOTE#USElection#USElections2020#Biden#Trump
With ten Presidents - from #7, Andrew Jackson to #43, George W. Bush - Antrim is the county boasting the most presidential ancestry. In each case, the ancestors were themselves descended from settlers from the Ulster Plantation in the 17th century.