• On the 11th of February 1964, Sarah Louise Palin née
Heath was born in Sandpoint, Idaho to Sarah 'Sally' Sheeran and
Charles R. 'Chuck' Heath.

• 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".
		

• 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.