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Countries of US Presidents by Closest Foreign Ancestor

Name the country that the closest born foreign ancestor of every US president was born in.
Foreign means anyone born without US citizenship.
Colonies have to be guessed seperate from the main country.
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Ancestor
Country
Year
Born
Name
President
Mother
Province of Canada
1848
Hulda Randall Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Paternal
Grandmother
Confederate States of America
1863
Nina Carter
Jimmy Carter
Paternal
3x-Great Grandfather
Great Britain
1794
James Uncles
George
H. W. Bush
Father
Kingdom of Ireland
1761
James Buchanan Sr.
James Buchanan
Father
1796
William Arthur
Chester A. Arthur
Paternal
3x-Great Grandfather
1771
Isaac Newton Brown
Richard Nixon
Father
Colony and Protectorate of Kenya
1934
Barack Obama Sr.
Barack Obama
Paternal
Great Great
Grandmother
Province of Maryland
1774
Lydia Stapleton Crawford
Warren G. Harding
Himself
Province of Massachusetts Bay

1735
John Adams
Father
1757
Benjamin Pierce
Franklin Pierce
Paternal
Grandmother
1766
Margaret Falley
Grover Cleveland
Himself
1767
John Quincy Adams
Maternal
Great
Grandfather
1769
Asa H. Waters Jr.
William Howard Taft
Father
Province of New Hampshire

1771
Nathaniel Fillmore
Millard Fillmore
Paternal
Grandmother
Province of New Jersey
1775
Anna Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
Maternal
Grandmother
Province of New York
1764
Mehitable Ballou
James A. Garfield
Paternal
Great
Grandmother
1773
Maria Van Schaack
Theodore Roosevelt
Paternal
Great
Grandfather
1774
John Aspinwall Jr.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Himself
1782
Martin Van Buren
Himself
Province of North Carolina or
Province of South Carolina
1767
Andrew Jackson
Father
Province of North Carolina
1772
Samuel Polk
James K. Polk
Paternal
Grandfather
Province of Pennsylvania
1744
Abraham Flowers Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Paternal
Grandmother
1762
Chloe R. Smith
Rutherford B. Hayes
Maternal
Grandmother
1770
Rebecca Weir Simpson
Ulysses S. Grant
Maternal
Grandmother
1774
Ann Allison
William McKinley
Paternal
Great Great
Grandmother
1774
Anna Magdalena Dietrich
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Maternal
Grandmother
Province of South Carolina
1764
Mary Ruth Lindley
Andrew Johnson
Paternal
Great
Grandfather
United Colonies of North-America (Virginia)

1775
Jesse Holmes
Harry S. Truman
Paternal
Great Great
Grandmother
United Colonies (Virginia)
1776
Ava Garnett Barnett
Lyndon B. Johnson
Mother
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (England)
1826
Janet Jessie Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
Paternal
Grandfather
1854
John Michael Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Maternal
Great Grandfather
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (Scotland)
1812
Alexander Gardner Jr.
Gerald Ford
Mother
United Kingdom (Scotland)
1912
Màiri Leòid Trump
Donald Trump
Paternal
Great Great
Grandfather
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (Ireland)
1830
John Hayes
Bill Clinton
Paternal
Great
Grandfather
1836
James Hickey
John F. Kennedy
Maternal
Great Great
Grandmother
1844
Mary Stanton
Joe Biden
Paternal
Great
Grandmother
Vermont Republic
1787
Mary Davis Moor
Calvin Coolidge
Himself
Colony of Virginia

1732
George Washington
Himself
1743
Thomas Jefferson
Father
1744
Richard Taylor
Zachary Taylor
Father
1747
John Tyler Sr.
John Tyler
Himself
1751
James Madison
Himself
1758
James Monroe
Himself
1773
William Henry Harrison
Maternal
Great Great
Grandmother
Kingdom of Württemberg or
Grand Duchy of Baden
1841
Katrina Pritzel Pierce
George W. Bush
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