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• On the 24th of August 1955, Michael Dale 'Mike' Huckabee was
born to Dorsey Wiles Huckabee and May Elder in the town of Hope,
Arkansas, the same place where Bill Clinton was born nine years
later.
• Huckabee's father held two jobs, as a fire-fighter and car
mechanic while his mother worked as a clerk in a local gas
company to support the four-member family.
• Huckabee once said about his dad, "he was one of those guys
who lifted things, who worked with his hands, and got his hands
real dirty. I think he had grime and grease all over them as long
as he lived."
• Remembering and oft quoting the tiny rental house the family
lived in, Huckabee says, "I am a generation away from abject
poverty and I know it."
• Huckabee's mother, May Elder, was the oldest of seven
children who had no other option but to quit school and take care
of her younger siblings while her parents toiled hard, day and
night.
• Being born to a blue-collar family, Huckabee was the first
male in his entire family lineage to have graduated from high
school. He often says, "My father had never finished high school,
nor his father, nor his."
• On setting a new standard in his family, Huckabee's father is
said to have chuckled, "Son, don't look too far up the family
tree. There are some things there that might embarrass you."
• Though Huckabee lacked in pedigree, his humble Southern roots
and pastoral credentials gave him a better understanding of the
problems of the working class in America.
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Obama is of mixed African and Caucasian parentage. His father,
Barack Obama Sr., is an ethnic Kenyan Luo from the Nyanza
province.
His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, is a Caucasian of English,
Scottish, Irish, French, Swiss, German and Welsh descent.
Dunham’s great-great-great-great-great grandfather from the
maternal line, Christian Gutknecht Goodnight, was originally from
Bischwiller, France, and arrived here in 1749 with his
Swiss-German wife, Maria Magdalena Grüholtz (1723- unknown).
Dunham’s eighth generation paternal grandfather, Jonathan
Singletary Dunham (1639-1724), is of English/Scottish stock. His
lineage can be traced back to Edward I of England (1239 – 1307)
and William the Lion (1143–1214). Robert Perry (1785-1852), her
great-great-great grandfather from her maternal line, is a
Welshmen. Dunham’s paternal great-great grandfather, Falmouth
Kearney (1830-1878), arrived in New York City in 1850 from
Moneygall, Ireland.
President Obama and wife, Michelle, greeting Henry Healy, his
distant
cousin, during a visit to Moneygall, Ireland, on May 23,
2011.
Obama, through his maternal great-great-great-great-great-great
grandfather, Philip Ament (1755-1836), is related to Lyndon B.
Johnson, the country’s 36th President, who is the great- great-
great-grandson of Ament. He is also the eighth cousin, twice
removed, of the 39th President, Jimmy Carter, through his seventh
generation maternal grandfather, Moses Teague (1718-1799).
Interestingly, Obama is the tenth cousin of former presidents
Gerald Ford (once removed), George H.W Bush (once removed) and
George W. Bush (twice removed) through his tenth generation
paternal grandfather, Samuel Hinckley (1589-1662). Obama is,
additionally, the distant relative of two more former United
States Presidents, James Madison and Harry Truman, as well as
former Vice President, Dick Cheney.
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