Someone that I know has been posting that Barack Obama is not the first African-American President, that indeed there was an African-American President before him, John Hanson.

Feb 19, 2024 · But, let some folks tell it, Obama wasn’t the first Black president – he was just the most obvious. Theories have swirled for the better part of two centuries regarding whether some U.S ...

Dec 15, 2020 · The belief that the first president of the United States was Black stems from confusing two historical figures with the same name.

Oct 31, 2022 · One man says there were seven Black presidents before Obama. The second man claims that all of the first seven U.S. presidents were Black men with interracial parentage. A third …

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Feb 21, 2011 · When people think about the first Black president, they automatically think Barack Obama. Many others liked to joke about former President Clinton, but what about those with African …

Presidents with African ancestry Barack Obama Barack Obama, who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017, had an African father and an American mother of mostly European …

Jan 6, 2017 · Cecil replies: Around the time of the 2008 election, some may remember, every piddly rumor about a former POTUS’s possible African heritage got a good airing under click-friendly …