Did you know?

That Barack Obama is not the first highly placed member of the American Executive to be of mixed racial ancestry? Well, no, there have not been any Presidents before…..but, there was a Vice-President, Charles Curtis (1860-1936), whose maternal ancestry was almost entirely Native American. His mother, Ellen Pappan, was one-fourth Kaw, one-fourth Osage, one-fourth Pottawatomie and one-fourth French…..Hmmmm….! I’ve no idea what his Dad was so don’t ask!


And whose Vice-President was he? Well, dear me, that of the much derided Republican Herbert Hoover. I do think this should be better known….