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• Her mother was a school secretary and her father was a
science teacher and track coach.
• Palin was born and baptized as a Roman Catholic but raised as
a Pentecostal Christian. Palin's family were Roman Catholics but
later joined the Wasilla Assembly of God, a Pentecostal church.
During an interview, Palin is said to have described herself as a
"Bible-believing Christian".
• Palin's lineage is firmly rooted in ancestry that dates back
to the 1600's in America with an impressive pedigree laden with
numerous pre-1650 immigrants from England.
• Her Mayflower ancestors include William Brewster, John
Howland, Stephen Hopkins, Joan (Hurst) Rogers, John and Elizabeth
Tilley and Richard Warren. She is also the descendant of Thomas
Prence, an early governor of Plymouth Colony.
• Palin's royal lineage claims William 1, King of Scots, as an
ancestor. She also descends from Henry III of England.
• Another of her more interesting ancestors is the Rev. John
Lathrop/Lothrop, a 1605 Cambridge University graduate who was
ordained as an Anglican priest in England but later joined the
dissenters to head a secret congregation in London.
• Anchorage radio host Dan Fagan says, "She's a hockey mom, she
lives on a lake, she ice fishes, she snowmobiles, she hunts...she
has a float plane," and in his opinion, "she's as Alaskan as you
can get".
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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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