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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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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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