who was the first irish elected us president to be inaugurated?

Answer 1

No Irish-born person has ever been elected President of the United States - nor would they be eligable. According to Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution: "No person except a natural born citizen ... shall be eligible to the Office of President". No American President has held dual citizenship with Ireland or any other country.

Answer 2

John Fitzgerald Kennedy took the oath of office and became the 35th President of the United States of America, on January 20, 1961. At age 43, he was the youngest man and the first Roman Catholic ever elected, and may have been the first Irish American president.

Answer 3

William McKinley

Born in Niles, Ohio on Sunday January 29, 1843, William was McKinley the seventh of nine children. In 1869, he made Canton, Ohio his permanent residence and remained there until he died. Most of his siblings lived within Stark County. His parents, William and Nancy (Allison) McKinley, were of Scots-Irish ancestry. He graduated from Poland Academy and briefly attended Allegheny College, where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

In June 1861, at the start of the American Civil War, he enlisted in the Union Army, as a private in the Twenty-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The regiment was sent to western Virginia where it spent a year fighting small Confederate units. His superior officer, another future U.S. President, Rutherford B. Hayes, promoted McKinley to commissary sergeant for his bravery in battle. For driving a mule team delivering rations under enemy fire at Antietam, Hayes promoted him to Second Lieutenant. This pattern repeated several times during the war, and McKinley eventually mustered out as Captain and brevet Major of the same regiment in September 1865. In 1869, the year that he entered politics, McKinley met and began courting his future wife, Ida Saxton, marrying her two years later when she was 23 and he was 27.

Answer 4

The United States had six presidents before an Irish descendant came to the White House. That was Andrew Jackson, whose parents, Andrew Jackson and Elizabeth Hutchinson, were born in Carrickfergus, County Antrim. His father's father, Hugh Jackson, died in Ireland about 1782. His great grandfather, Thomas Jackson, was from Ballyregan in Dundonald, County Down.

James K. Polk, the 11th president, believed his great-grandfather, William Polk, came from County Donegal and that his great-great grandfather, Robert Pollock, came from the same county. Pollock immigrated to Maryland's Eastern Shore and changed his name to Polk.


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