English American - Presidents of English Descent

Presidents of English Descent

Thomas Jefferson William Henry Harrison Franklin Pierce Gerald Ford George W Bush

Most of the Presidents of the United States have had English ancestry. The extent of English Heritage varies in the presidents with earlier presidents being predominantly of colonial English Yankee stock. Later US Presidents' ancestry can often be traced to ancestors from multiple nations in Europe, including England.

George Washington (English)

1st President 1789-97 (great-grandfather, John Washington from Purleigh, Essex, England.)

John Adams (English)

2nd President 1797-1801 (great-great-grandfather, Henry Adams born 1583 Barton St David, Somerset, England, immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts.)

Thomas Jefferson (English and Scots-English)

3rd President 1801–1809 (Maternal English ancestry from William Randolph.)

James Madison (English)

4th President 1809-17

John Quincy Adams (English)

6th President 1825-29 (Henry Adams born 1583 Barton St David, Somerset, England.)

William Henry Harrison (English)

9th President 1841-1841

John Tyler (English)

10th President 1841-1845

Zachary Taylor (English)

12th President 1849-50

Millard Fillmore (English)

13th President 1850-1853

Franklin Pierce (English)

14th President 1853-1857

Abraham Lincoln (English, Welsh)

16th President 1861-65 (Samuel Lincoln baptised 1622 in Hingham, Norfolk, England, died in Hingham, Massachusetts.)

Andrew Johnson (Scots-Irish and English)

17th President 1865-1869

Ulysses S. Grant (Scots-Irish, English & Scottish)

18th President, 1869-77

Rutherford B. Hayes (English)

19th President 1877-1881

James A. Garfield (English, Welsh and French)

20th President 1881-81

Chester A. Arthur (Scots-Irish and English)

21st President 1881-85

Grover Cleveland (Scots-Irish & English)

22nd and 24th President, 1885-89 and 1893-97

Benjamin Harrison (Scots-Irish & English)

23rd President, 1889-93

William McKinley (Scots-Irish & English)

25th President, 1897-1901

Theodore Roosevelt (Scots-Irish, Dutch, Scots, English & French)

26th President, 1901-09

William Howard Taft (Scots-Irish & English)

27th President 1909-13

Warren G. Harding (Scots-Irish & English)

29th President 1921-23

Calvin Coolidge (English)

30th President 1923-1929

Franklin D. Roosevelt (Dutch, French & English)

32nd President 1933-45

Harry S Truman (Scots-Irish, English & German)

33rd President 1945-53

Lyndon B. Johnson (English)

36th President 1963-69

Richard Nixon (Scots-Irish, Irish, English & German)

37th President, 1969-74

Gerald Ford (English)

38th President 1974-77

Jimmy Carter (Scotch-Irish & English)

39th President 1977-81 (Thomas Carter Sr. emigrated from England to Isle of Wight County, Virginia.)

Ronald Reagan (Scots-Irish, Irish, English & Scottish)

40th President 1981-89: He was the great-grandson, on his father's side, of Irish migrants from County Tipperary who came to America via Canada and England in the 1840s. His mother was of Scottish and English ancestry.

George H. W. Bush (Scots-Irish, English, Dutch & German)

41st President 1989-93: County Wexford historians have found that his now apparent ancestor, Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke. Shunned by Henry II, he offered his services as a mercenary in the 12th-century Norman invasion of Wexford, Ireland in exchange for power and land. Strongbow married Aoife, daughter of Dermot MacMurrough, the Gaelic king of Leinster who had invited the Norman Invasion and is seen as one of Ireland's greatest traitors.

Bill Clinton (Scots-Irish & English)

42nd President 1993-2001

George W. Bush (Scots-Irish, English, Dutch, German & Welsh)

43rd President 2001-2009: Reynold Bush from Messing, Essex, England emigrated in 1631 to Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Barack Obama (Luo, English & Irish)

44th President 2009-: His maternal ancestors came to America from France, England, Germany, Switzerland and Ireland. His ancestors lived in New England and the South and by the 1800s most were in the Midwest. His father was Luo (or Jaluo) from Kenya, and was the first person in his family to travel or live outside of Africa.