That although our Presidents have been all been white and predominantly WASP, as well as most of our Vice-Presidents, that the U.S. had a Vice-President with American Indian heritage under Herbert Hoover?
From
Wikipedia:
- Charles Curtis was the first and only person with acknowledged non-European heritage to reach one of the top two offices in the United States Government executive branch. Nearly half of Curtis' background was made up of American Indian stock.
- He was the last person in the top two offices of the executive branch (president or vice president) to have facial hair.
- He was a Republican.
- He supported women's rights: In 1923, he was one of the first Representatives to offer the first rendition of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- He endorsed the five day work week, with no reduction in wages, as a work-sharing solution to unemployment soon after the Great Depression began.
Comments (16)
Very cool.
i had no idea!
I had no idea either, nice!
That's pretty cool! I hope he embraced his heritage, despite living in a time when it would have been rare to do so.
Wow! lol, why doesn't it surprise me that you'd find something all cool and not known? I always learn from you!
That was back when Republicans were liberals and Democrats were conservatives.
I didn't know that...Thanks for the info. It is extremely interesting.
AND did you know that Herbert Hoover aws from the great and beautiful state of Iowa, being born and raised only twenty minutes or so from where I grew up? Hooray!
I think you guys need more variety in your presidents
It must be pretty tiring to have one WASP after another, with Kennedy being the only proper exception. Then again it's not like the Irish can comment. The closest to variety we've had was Eamonn DeValera and he's usually depicted as the epitome of Irishness.
i did not know that. thanks for da knowledge, squeak!
wow I learn something new everyday on xanga! Woo hoo for the first half breed like me to be VP of USA!! We need some more.
Republicans always lead the way for every real issue. The Dems just come later and take credit for them.
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Wow, that's cool. Thanks for sharing such interesting information. :)
I didn't know that. Very cool piece of trivia.