Before President Obama, another chief executive had to endure questions about his birthplace. Mo Rocca reports on the "birther" controversy surrounding the 21st President, Chester Alan Arthur.
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@timothymoriarty97347 жыл бұрын
If you asked somone on the street who Chester Arthur was they probably wouldn't know.
@Captain-Sum.Ting-Wong7 жыл бұрын
Which is sad if you ask me.
@thehurrikain41396 жыл бұрын
He’s considered the most forgotten president actually
@hilolo53616 жыл бұрын
I knew he was the President, but i forgot, no one said just why he brunt his papers, that is strange
@jeffreygranger69136 жыл бұрын
I would.
@jeffreygranger69136 жыл бұрын
@Gary Allen You're thinking of William Howard Taft.I don't know what the percentage is,but I'm in the nerd section too.God bless your mom.My mother taught me a trick to memorize at least seven of the Presidents.Starting at the tenth:Tyler poke (Polk) Taylor,Fillmore Pierce Buchanan then Lincoln.That's how I still remember them.Appealing to the absurd helps memory.
@cursed_multicel7 жыл бұрын
Anyone else caught in a CBS Sunday Morning vortex?
@shawnstone725 жыл бұрын
😂 yes I am. Great program.
@TheStarswearee5 жыл бұрын
Me to
@anutterperspective5 жыл бұрын
Yes, for decades now!
@christophersmith84865 жыл бұрын
IVE FALLEN AND I CANT GET UP
@sadielol8284 жыл бұрын
Ikr
@cant1445 жыл бұрын
Chester A. Arthur took the oath of office as President in his house on Lexington Ave., NYC. This building is now a Middle Eastern food bazaar. Hmmm. The plot gets deeper.
@michaelpreston2335 жыл бұрын
Food for thought ......
@jorbennoten95364 жыл бұрын
I knew he was a muslim
@davidharrison37113 жыл бұрын
Yes, he had to be given an impromptu oath of office as his predecessor, James A. Garfield had died of his wounds from being shot nearly three months earlier, in 1881.
@minimalist46672 жыл бұрын
They shoulda preserved it tbh
@Zombie812127 жыл бұрын
The part where he asked "Who were YOU thinking of" got me, I'll be honest.
@pipn90906 жыл бұрын
Ted Cruz was born in Canada.
@manofiske33186 жыл бұрын
And born to a Cuban Citizen father. He is Cuban by blood and Canadian through the soil and , at best, a naturalized U.S. Citizen
@bethbartlett56925 жыл бұрын
Send him to Quebec!
@joystickonomics35705 жыл бұрын
and Michael Bennet was born in India, weird how people who werent born in the us are running for president.
@carloscarballo21555 жыл бұрын
mano fiske no his mom is American, born in the United States. Which makes him also American.
@edmcnamara39555 жыл бұрын
pipn So what?
@tinyturtwig12833 жыл бұрын
The important thing to note was 1 of Chester a Arthur parents were American citizens cause in American law if a person was born in a foreign country but has at least one parent who is a American citizen they can still run for president or any seats of office
@DugrozReports4 ай бұрын
Probably.
@theamaturepro3 ай бұрын
That's a great point. My mind was so quick to jump to scandalous conclusions, I forgot about the actual rules. I just reread the Constitution a couple days ago, too. I should be better than that!
@ShinFahima5 жыл бұрын
Of course Arthur was born in Kenya. No doubt about it!
@Davey-TheDJ3 жыл бұрын
I have to edit I please forgive me, I'm havin a rough time now. I will say this if I had the medicine the I would have commented better, out the medication that I need to take for this problem because the drug addicts in this country they won't give it to me even though I'm not a drug addict!
@MarchOnRome3 жыл бұрын
@@Davey-TheDJ You good bro? You get your fix eventually?
@Davey-TheDJ3 жыл бұрын
@@MarchOnRome 1st I'm not a drug addict I took the 3 controlled medication as they were prescribed I was drug tested every month before I got my prescriptions so far I've not yet able to get the meds I need just have to show the doctors that I'm not taking medications so then over period of time till I am trustworthy.
@MarchOnRome3 жыл бұрын
@@Davey-TheDJ Oxy?
@Davey-TheDJ3 жыл бұрын
@@MarchOnRome That & Adderall and diazepam the adderall is for my ADHD the oxy is for degenerative disc and disease degenerative joint disease and arthritis right shoulder blade I think he ate my right knee got ran over by a car that right shoulder was in a car accident in 1993 wrapped my car and telephone pole I was just 17 I have severe anxiety I've had a few panic attacks in my life so far diazepam also use to treat seizures.
@daltonstier49205 жыл бұрын
No one is talking about how that dudes name is Dumbville
@alon40394 жыл бұрын
Dalton Stier ik lmao
@sarkaniemi3 жыл бұрын
I heard that too, but I wasn't sure if I had heard right. I thought it was Dunville. But it's Dumville?! Are you sure?! I rest my case then!
@aprilhaney49693 жыл бұрын
🤣
@TheMilitantHorse6 жыл бұрын
Chester A. Arthur actually was quite a beneficial president. Doing some research on him, his policies actually were very influential, and some presidential scholars say he's probably one of the best presidents the US ever had.
@manofiske33186 жыл бұрын
Arthur was a Usurper ; never the legitimate holder of the Office of the President of the United States. He was born a Citizen of Great Britain through his Non-U.S. Citizen father
@JW-uy2on5 жыл бұрын
Really? He was a tool of Wall Street just like all the Gilded Age presidents.
@sambradley29755 жыл бұрын
Arthur was one of the greatest presidents that this nation was ever blessed to have had.
@david869yearsago53 жыл бұрын
He was a corrupt fool
@georgfriedrichhandel43902 жыл бұрын
@@manofiske3318 Do you have concrete evidence to support this claim?
@jmass86993 жыл бұрын
I had to do a report on him in 8th grade (1999) and had no idea about any of this. Internet has really changed the world.
@georgfriedrichhandel43902 жыл бұрын
Historians today may consider Pres. Arthur a mediocre and the least memorable president but when he left office in 1885, journalist Alexander McClure wrote, "No man ever entered the Presidency more profoundly and widely distrusted than leave more generally respected." And even Mark Twain, who was very distrustful of politicians, wrote, "It will be hard indeed to better the administration of President Arthur."
@oliviaanderson76702 жыл бұрын
Fun fact he's my grandpa's great grandfather!
@General_Thanksgiving4 ай бұрын
So you’re direct ancestor of president that’s impressive
@theamaturepro3 ай бұрын
That's actually really cool! So is that 7 generations? I'm horrible at adding generations up for whatever reason. Did you know the grandson of the tenth president John Tyler is still alive? The comparison between grandson of an early president and your grandpa being a great grandson of a much later president is crazy to me! That family has like 5 generations of time in three generations. Anyway, I'll probably brag from now on that I replied to Chester Arthurs descended grandson on the interwebs. Lol
@morganmadison3662 жыл бұрын
If he's parents claimed American citizenship for him, then he would be a natural-born American citizen.
@jasongates-4 жыл бұрын
I'm American, and I had never even heard of Chester Arthur until I happened to see a page in middle school hung on the classroom wall with the list of presidents, and I was interested in who was president when, so I started copying them down. When I got to Chester Arthur, I was thinking, "Who?" The focus, in general, is on presidents like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, people like that. But, no one ever says Chester Arthur. So, this video is actually my first time ever hearing any news at all about Chester Arthur. Up until this video, all I knew is that there was a Chester Arthur. So, thanks for this video. Interesting video. I wish we could know for sure where he was born.
@LotsOfBologna24 жыл бұрын
I'm 35, into history and never heard of Chester Arthur before in my life. Just saw some KZbin listing presidents and I had to go wikipedia this guy to make sure he was a real president. #1 Obscure President in US history.
@dreamkitty Жыл бұрын
because he isn’t important. like you aren’t l
@jasongates- Жыл бұрын
@@dreamkitty You could have left that last part out. And I agree that he didn't do anything important while in office, otherwise we might have heard of him. But surely he was important to his wife and mother.
@twiggy1253 Жыл бұрын
@@dreamkitty do you feel proud? Your parents don’t
@ghostiegoober1085 жыл бұрын
This man interviews the strangest people.
@georgfriedrichhandel43902 жыл бұрын
If Chester Arthur was born in Canada, his parents might not have known about it until much later and then he would have the same reaction as Doug Heffernan on King of Queens, "OMG! I'm Canadian!"
@clayscloset2618 Жыл бұрын
You win the internet the day you commented and today when I say it!!!
@WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT13 жыл бұрын
There is a small museum in the village of Cullybackey, Northern Ireland close to where my late grandmother lived called 'Arthur Cottage' where the president's father hailed from
@faithcastillo95976 жыл бұрын
I love Mo Rocca. Marvelous story teller.
@bscherer90 Жыл бұрын
I had to do a quick Google cuz I was like "wait isn't this guy a fake reporter for The Daily Show?" 😂
@kevinestrada977 Жыл бұрын
There is an older rumor that says that Chester Arthur was actually born in Ireland 🇮🇪.
@GregStallion7 жыл бұрын
Arthur was still eligible for the presidency because his mother was American-born.
@d.r.54777 жыл бұрын
Christopher Quinn actually you need to be a natural-born citizen, so he'd need to he born either in the country, a US embassy, or a US military base
@HuevoDuro7027 жыл бұрын
D. R. What about Ted Cruz he wasn't in the those criterias!
@bxdanny7 жыл бұрын
Was his father also an American citizen? Were there any specific laws at the time specifying who was or wasn't a citizen at birth if not born on U.S. soil? I think you're right, he would be a "natural-born citizen" (meaning born a citizen) even if the birth took place in Canada, but it should be more definite than "I think". Oh, and the border was "porous" because there weren't any border controls at all, I'm pretty sure. People could cross in either direction whenever they wanted, didn't have to stop to answer anyone's questions (there was no one to ask them), and it was completely legal.
@Captain-Sum.Ting-Wong7 жыл бұрын
We've existed for more than 240 years and we still haven't cleared up what the criteria is for becoming the President? Wow.
@manofiske33186 жыл бұрын
Whether his parent or parents were "American born" hasn't a thing to do with Arthur's or anyone else's Article II Eligibility. The parents' , that in particular of the Father, status as possessors of U.S. Citizenship is what is of paramount concern. The newborn must inherit through "the blood" (jus sanguinis) his or her Citizenship of the United States and in addition via "the soil"(jus soli) unless one or both parents are serving in the "armies of the state"(military or diplomatic corp.) then the child although born "abroad" will be considered to have been born within the jurisdiction
@NascarNick24885 жыл бұрын
0:13 I don’t know why but I always seem to laugh at that part 😂😂😂
@theodoreroosevelt42604 жыл бұрын
Obama
@aprilhaney49693 жыл бұрын
🤣
@VivKittie326 жыл бұрын
Haha!! I love the way Mo says “..in French speaking Canada!!”
@edarcuri1824 жыл бұрын
Looking at the comments it appears that Mo Rocca, and others, are confusing the 14th Amendment's apparent granting of birthright citizenship (still not a settled issue) and the requirement, in Article II, that a President be a "natural born citizen." One is natural born, in the consensus legal understanding of that term, if one or both of one's parents were US citizens at the time of one's birth. Where a person is born is not decisive for Article II purposes.
@jimstull7 жыл бұрын
Chester Arthur was born Oct. 5, 1830 in Vermont. I never heard the claim that he was born in 1829 until a few years ago and I've been following the presidents since the mid 60's when I was five years old.
@Captain-Sum.Ting-Wong7 жыл бұрын
That's what was said by Chester A Arthur. But over the last 30 years or so it has been accepted by most historians and scholars that he was born in 1829.
@ricardo531006 жыл бұрын
Me too. I memorized all the Presidents in proper order when I was in the 5th grade.
@dannapier25606 жыл бұрын
Jim Stull that doesn't make you right. American history is full of lies. The people who wrote our history wrote it to favor those like themselves. That should be obvious to anyone. We may never know the whole truth and nothing but the truth regarding Arthur's birthplace
@kayzeaza6 жыл бұрын
I don’t think it matters anymore, they’re long dead anyway
@TheMilitantHorse6 жыл бұрын
Do explain some of these lies.
@mike_oxlong43873 жыл бұрын
He has always been my favourite president
@georgfriedrichhandel43902 жыл бұрын
Mine too!
@DugrozReports4 ай бұрын
@@georgfriedrichhandel4390 why?
@georgfriedrichhandel43904 ай бұрын
@@DugrozReports I will quote two sources. Alexander McClure,the political correspondent for the New York Times, stated, "Never before had a man entered the White House more profoundly distrusted than leave more generally respected", and even Mark Twain who was suspicious of politicians said, "It will be hard indeed to better the presidency of Chester Arthur." High praise indeed!
@manwithblackhat6 жыл бұрын
This is idiocy. The Constitution states that the President must be a "natural born citizen." This is not to be confused with "native born citizen." A natural born citizen is one whose parents (or one of whose parents) was a citizen of the United States at the time of his or her birth, making it citizenship by inheritance, not by location. So, NATURAL BORN and NATIVE BORN are two different things. At least this is how the framers of the Constitution would have understood it, and it was what they meant when they wrote it down. If you're watching this on KZbin, you would have been able to see a video here some years ago, of a young Barack Obama introducing himself as saying he was born in Kenya. (Good luck finding it now.) Considering his rather unstable upbringing, as the product of what we used to call a "broken home" and being moved from one household to another (maternal grandparents, stepfather in Indonesia, and so on), he may have grown up with the wrong information himself. But his mother was an American citizen at the time of his birth, so if he was born on the moon, his mother's citizenship would have been all that mattered. Now you know not only the rest of the story, but why someone once called them the "lamestream media." Glad I could help out.
@jeffreygranger69136 жыл бұрын
Let me be the first to say thank you for the lesson.Very informative.
@kayzeaza6 жыл бұрын
Yeah it must just be a slow news day. They just want to stir the pot
@uncleruckus28676 жыл бұрын
david true but there is a residency requirement for the us citizen parent as well when obama was born his mother (1961) had to have resided at least 5 years in usa from her 14th birthday (19 years old) obama was born when she was 18 so IF he was born in kenya as some say (i dont think so) she could not have passed us citizenship to baby barack the law has been changed to 2 years...i believe but its not retroactive
@kirkmoore45156 жыл бұрын
Uncle Ruckus That whole birther thing was a bad joke. Both major Honolulu newspapers reported in the vital statics columns that Barack Obama was born on August 4th 1961 in Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu. This was reported in both the Honolulu Advertiser and Honolulu Star-bulletin. Yet the Obama haters still push this drivel.
@uncleruckus28676 жыл бұрын
i was not an obama hater but a person who respects the rule of law and i believe most of the others looking at this were too i saw only one small clipping showing his birth announced but im amazed not one young nurse came out and said OH i remember him being born . they would be in their 70 or 80s only . quite an oddity to have an african and white american married in hawaii in 1961 . after all a woman just came forward about being attacked 36 years ago and many people are still alive remember nothing of the events she claims ever occurred . i think the whole BO birther issue was a smokescreen to draw attention away from the fact that his real father was frank marshall davis
@KDBBM3 жыл бұрын
That man was a husky Canadian
@C0DE_ZER03 жыл бұрын
Pretty huge lol
@edlutz72183 жыл бұрын
Canadian husky
@Pentagonshark6663 жыл бұрын
Yeah French Canadian he looked like a bit like Louis Cyr.
@TomS-q4qАй бұрын
Lol
@indianheadlogan5 жыл бұрын
Arthur was born in 1829. But Canada was founded in 1867, before that it was just Colonies of the Sovereign Dominion of Canada.
@sambradley29755 жыл бұрын
Chester A. Arthur was born in Fairfield, Vermont in October 5,1829.
@noahprill97187 жыл бұрын
Born in Canada? You see this is why we should focus on building a wall on Canada's border! Show us the birth certificate Arthur!
@TS-bh7hn6 жыл бұрын
Noah Prill I think he’s dead I’m not sure though
@manofiske33186 жыл бұрын
Don't need Arthur's birth-certificate to demonstrate his Article II ineligibilityArthur's father had not yet naturalized as a U.S. Citizen when little Chet came into the world and so passed along (jus sanguinis) his British Citizenship to his newborn; Pops was in possession of no form of U.S. Citizenship for his son to inherit
@bethbartlett56925 жыл бұрын
lol !
@sambradley29755 жыл бұрын
Lol 😆
@sambradley29755 жыл бұрын
His mother was a citizen of the US, I think that would have made Winston Churchill eligible to be President too.
@johnmoorely72753 жыл бұрын
If Chester was born in Canada he must have been a better President (with 3 or 4 exceptions) than the lot we have produced.
@louisiananlord175 жыл бұрын
Well, he would have been born a British subject in 1829 or 1830 because Confederation did not occur until 1867. And his father was a bilingual school teacher and many Vermonters went back and forth in those days. So the Arthur's could have worked in the US and Canada. But there is no way for sure to know where he plopped out on which soil. His father was Baptist so Arthur would have been baptized sometime in the late 1830s or early 1840s if he came to Jesus.
@gksl1230 Жыл бұрын
Even though I'm not a American, nor Canadian, this topic is very interesting!
@bobwitkowski64103 жыл бұрын
With what I was saying about Chester A. Arthur I know that I misspelled his last name. However, I know that the border line did a lot of fluctuation throughout the time. I offered in my previous comment about a town and a home wherein the border line did funny things when the surveyors drew the border line on the map. I became aware of this situation while watching a program on the Discovery Channel and yet another program on Home and Garden channel. The utility services in that town are even effected by this. It wasn't until the 1960s that that section of the border was refined. Perhaps when Chester A. Arthur was born that city was part of Vermont and sometime thereafter the border was redrawn and it went to Canada. The only way this matter can be settled is if all maps for every year from when he was born until his death are reviewed.
@EappleSandbox7 жыл бұрын
BOORRRRN IN THE USA, I WAS....BORN IN THE USAAAA.
@Justice4547 Жыл бұрын
“He was likely born in Canada .” Keyword likely. Ridiculous
@Puggy420692 жыл бұрын
He burned all his papers right before he died!? The man was definitely guilty of something very bad, probably worse than the birther thing.
@RandomVidsforthought2 жыл бұрын
It was just a common thing people did in the 19th century to assure their loved ones that they didn't write anything bad in their writing
@kevinhoffman81122 жыл бұрын
I had to laugh when that one woman said he was born in Vermont simply because that pamphlet says so. Sounds like she'll believe just about anything.
@Baldgol4 Жыл бұрын
Buried in Albany Rural Cemetery next to his beautiful wife.
@ewanoxborrow10242 жыл бұрын
“Well we’ve got pamphlets” Didn’t realise these were the most credible source of historical context but go off 🤣🤣🤣
@uncleruckus28676 жыл бұрын
was his father a us citizen? if so, then he was a natural born us citizen
@Caleb_Bravo996 жыл бұрын
That's not how that works.
@uncleruckus28676 жыл бұрын
dont just say that explain your position at that time it was most likely thru the father since women couldnt vote and could lose their us citizenship by marrying a foreigner
@Caleb_Bravo996 жыл бұрын
@@uncleruckus2867 You have to be born in the country.
@uncleruckus28676 жыл бұрын
wrong
@manofiske33186 жыл бұрын
That's EXACTLY how it works.
@gildavis82665 жыл бұрын
It really doesn't matter because Arthur's father was an American and as such, American citizenship was automatically conferred to his son at birth regardless of where the birth took place.
@someguy234755 жыл бұрын
His father was not a citizen at the time of his birth. He didn’t acquire citizenship until the 1840s.
@theodoreroosevelt85375 жыл бұрын
If A Hamilton was president, there would be a president from West Indies
@bryaninnit52783 жыл бұрын
I will not answer where I was born
@theman48843 жыл бұрын
The Vermont house looks more like it was built in the early 1800's than the one in Quebec.
@kevinestrada977 Жыл бұрын
There are rumors that Mexican 🇲🇽 president Adolfo Lopez Mateos was actually born in Guatemala 🇬🇹.
@midgie44103 жыл бұрын
Just because his father taught school in Canada and his grandmother lived in Canada,doesn't mean Chester was born in Canada! There is a difference between likelihood and proof!
@natr39807 ай бұрын
A Canadian born US president?!!! Talk about a dark time in US history
@kayzeaza4 жыл бұрын
It wouldn’t matter if he was born in Canada as long as his parents had American citizenship, ffs
@deprogramm4 жыл бұрын
matters to the constitution
@alcd63333 жыл бұрын
That small house at 1:15 might still have Arthur's DNA. If it could be extracted, replicated using PCR, and then matched with his descendants the Canadians could be telling the truth. The questions raised starting at 2:55 are reasonable: why did Arthur lie about his birth year (by only 1 year), refuse to answer questions about his birth, and burn all his personal documents before his passing?
@CherryCokeNixon4 жыл бұрын
This worry over presidents being born outside the United States is a misconception based on our new understanding of “birthright citizenship.” Until the late 19th century, citizenship was not granted by simply being born here, it was passed through parentage. That means, “natural born citizen” means any person who was born a with a right of citizenship whether or not they were born in Americans soil.
@LolManI-75 Жыл бұрын
0:43 I love how the piano sounds terrifying here, as if we've had a president more of a fraud than Trump or Nixon
@dm82963 жыл бұрын
If his father was the only trained teacher in the area, he probably worked at a few schools, back forth over the border.
@Mcmatthew994 жыл бұрын
He still would have been a natural born citizen if his parents were from the US, so the birther argument is stupid to begin with.
@chuckbuckbobuck4 жыл бұрын
I said the exact same thing just now above. Otherwise how could George Romney (born in Mexico) and John McCain (born in what was once known as the Canal Zone) run for president.
@gerardparker42205 жыл бұрын
This explains the beard.
@davidharrison37113 жыл бұрын
Fear the beard!
@JasonParmenter Жыл бұрын
Unbelievable how this matters still in America as a democracy. Literally every other democracy in the world doesn't have an archaic rule about birthright to the Presidency. Yes, I know the historical reasons for it, it's still stupid.
@gabxp30956 жыл бұрын
Ted cruise was born in Canada, yet he ran for president
@gabxp30956 жыл бұрын
Jim McCracken but cruise looks better visually
@manofiske33186 жыл бұрын
Cruz , was/is a Usurper wannabe. The despicable Cruz is far from an Article II 'natural born Citizen' ; far closer , in fact, to a natural born Cuban Citizen having been born to a Cuban Citizen father. He is a native born Canadian Citizen and at best, a naturalized U.S. Citizen
@bethbartlett56925 жыл бұрын
Send him back - to Quebec.
@sambradley29755 жыл бұрын
John McCain was born in the Canal Zone of Panama, & he ran for President.
@someguy234755 жыл бұрын
George Romney was born in Mexico but was declared eligible to run.
@revinhatol3 жыл бұрын
Chester Arthur gets instated, four years later he was traded.
@aid-kit113 жыл бұрын
This guy is the most forgotten president easily
@NijimaSan2 жыл бұрын
We talk more about his facial hair than his presidential record. For that reason alone, most people could care less where he was born.
@JuztN_Illuxion6 ай бұрын
The first seven Presidents (Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Adams, Jackson) were not born in the United States. They were born in the British English Colonies. The first president born in the US was Martin Van Buren
@sambradley29755 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised Obama didn't mention Chester A. Arthur when he had his birther problem.
@theodoreroosevelt42604 жыл бұрын
I dont Obama was born in America
@exchequerguy40373 жыл бұрын
CAA was never elected president, but instead vice-president. But you have to be a born US citizen to be VP as well.
@LongNoseBreaker2 ай бұрын
Ooga Booga
@barbarathompson71014 жыл бұрын
I'm a descendant of Chester's. He was born in Vermont.
@DacStudiosEntertainment5 жыл бұрын
Yay Canada you took over our government Edit: by using one man
@alexbachir66724 жыл бұрын
if his parents were American citizens when he was born I thought it didnt matter where he was born
@georgfriedrichhandel43902 жыл бұрын
But his father was not a US citizen when Pres. Arthur was born so that would not apply here.
@WhittWoofs7 ай бұрын
Mo Rocca's voice always takes me back to the 90s when he was a (much) younger reporter on Fox News' TV Nation.
@luclongly5295 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't matter his father was American.
@Alice-sh1qy6 жыл бұрын
This dude is buried in my town
@chesterarthur27203 жыл бұрын
4:17 Your wrong dude! I was born in Kenya! You never knew that I was Kenyan
@georgfriedrichhandel43902 жыл бұрын
Except there was no nation named Kenya in 1829!
@Tangerinewc2 ай бұрын
Rutherford B Hayes birthplace is now a B.P gas station
@anunnakimenagerie6 жыл бұрын
He was a true American, born and bred.
@notvalidcharacters5 жыл бұрын
They didn't mention, not only did C Arthur have the coolest sideburns EVER (Jealous Mo?) but he was the great great great great great grandson of Susanna Martin, one of the "witches" executed at Salem.
@bullmoose67396 жыл бұрын
I like the hair.
@michaeltnk11355 жыл бұрын
If both parents were US citizens, then he’d still eligible for presidency. Michael Bennett was born in India, but he can still run of president because of this
@joeharris38782 жыл бұрын
Constitutionally, natural born citizen means born in on of the states that form the union. Today that means one of the 50 states unless your more elderly and from Alaska or Hawaii.
@twiggy1253 Жыл бұрын
@@joeharris3878 not true
@joeharris3878 Жыл бұрын
@@twiggy1253 Research it. For the purpose of establishing eligibility, someone 35 years or older and having been born in one of the states, unless one was born a subject of the King of England in one of the 13 colonies prior to the ratification of th US constitution can be president.Political parties may nominate anyone at all. So Barry Goldwater(Arizona territory), John McCain (Panama), Al Gore (DC) were not eligible to be president, but the US government does not follow the constitution, so who cares? Ted Cruz (Canada), Tulsi Gabbard (Somoa) aren't eligible either.
@anutterperspective5 жыл бұрын
IMHO this could be attributed to the lack of clear borders between developing States, or as in this case, Countries. I was amazed when working on my genealogy to find unclear boundaries between neighboring states but it certainly makes sense!
@JackCallSports5 жыл бұрын
Those Canadians ey
@2511dhall10 ай бұрын
I can never fathom why Conservatives in the US were obsessed with the birthplace of Barack Obama wereas John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone?
@bobwitkowski64103 жыл бұрын
That is not all that unreal to have happened because survaiors didn't ferm up the border until recently. One unique antidote to that is in one town there is a house wherein the person who lives in that house has to cross the American Canadian border frequently just to make her meals and her bed is situated so that her head is in America and her feet are in Canada. So the town of birth of Chester A. Arthor could have been in America and now it's in Canada. The town where that house is in is split in half with half being in America and the other half is in Canada that town is in Maine.
@chuckbuckbobuck4 жыл бұрын
George Romney, Mitts father was born of U.S. citizens in Mexico and there was some question if he was eligible to run for Prssident in 1968. Apparently he was so if Chester's parents were U.S.citizens constitutional wise he was eligible to be president. The constitution has been interpreted as foreigners born not of native parents cannot run for president. For example someone like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
@edwardstacksr92596 жыл бұрын
Chester Arthur was born in America and lived awhile in Perry NY.
@jillianmiller59603 жыл бұрын
Apparently my great grandmother back in the day hired someone to trace her lineage, and I’m related to him lol I might be from kenya 🇰🇪
@aprilhaney49693 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣
@zaphoddog38785 жыл бұрын
Chester Arthur was born in the US. The rest is just political based lies that took on a life of their own. Come on, that Canadian house was obviously built between 1915 and 1925. The American house was completely consistent with 1830's. Arthur born in Canada? Only if you are Erik Von Daniken or a flat earther.
@badanamufrumusheyvanescump75203 жыл бұрын
Course, Arthur's wife is Ellen Arthur and Arthur's sister was called Mary Arthur McElroy
@HVACSoldier3 жыл бұрын
If it says so in a pamphlet, it MUST be true, because you can’t publish anything in a pamphlet that’s not true. There are laws against that sort of thing.
@retroshark24483 жыл бұрын
Man you really don't have a life do you
@HVACSoldier3 жыл бұрын
@@retroshark2448 I was being somewhat sarcastic.
@crazysteve93904 жыл бұрын
Make sideburns great again
@FirebrandAL26 күн бұрын
Ted Cruz, Obama and now Arthur. *shakes head* how do they keep getting away with it....
@warrenrhinerson63734 жыл бұрын
Technically you don’t actually need to be born in the United States to be President as long as you have one biological parent that is an American citizen at the time of your birth.
@georgfriedrichhandel43902 жыл бұрын
That's true now but originally, the father had to be a US citizen in order for a child born overseas to be granted US citizenship so if Pres. Arthur was indeed born in Canada, he would not have been a birthright citizen because his father was not a citizen.
@victorjeffers19934 жыл бұрын
Sorry I think it's to late to impeach him ! Lol
@Winters955 жыл бұрын
Even if he was born in Canada, he would be allowed to serve is either of his two parents were American citizens when he was born. For example if an American couple has a baby in Germany (which was common during the cold war) the baby would gain dual citizenship which includes US citizenship... allowing them to run for president.
@dgsjrext2823 жыл бұрын
Natrual born key words
@theamaturepro3 ай бұрын
It's true because THERE'S A PAMPHLET THAT SAYS SO 😂. A pamphlet tells no lies!
@rkkasibhotla7 жыл бұрын
He was born in the USA because Canadians say he was born in Quebec and Quebec speaks French and the for sale sign is in English
@meomani7777 жыл бұрын
Russian mapper Countryballz That sign looks French to me m8
@bethbartlett56925 жыл бұрын
lolololol
@someguy234755 жыл бұрын
Large portions of Quebec were settled by English speakers, especially in the Eastern Townships. Many fled the US after the war to stay loyal to Great Britain.
@manofiske33186 жыл бұрын
8 U.S. Code § 1401 - Nationals and citizens of United States at birth (e) a person born in an outlying possession of the United States of parents one of whom is a citizen of the United States who has been physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year at any time prior to the birth of such person; Obviously, "of parents one of whom is a citizen of the United States" deduces the other parent is a foreign national. Now read the only enumerated power in the U.S. Constitution granted to Congress regarding citizenship: U.S. Constitution Article 1, Sec. 1, Clause 4: "The Congress shall have Power To...establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization” Why is it that 8 U.S. Code § 1401 excludes the only missing category - a person born in an outlying possession of the United States of parents each of whom is a citizen of the United States?The above is a rhetorical question for all but the most intellectually challenged residing amongst this forum's population---sadly quite a sizable bunch
@christopherbrownmaaga46682 жыл бұрын
Bedford, Canada
@subterranea90953 жыл бұрын
please note that people cannot be "born in the usa." the united states declared that all people are created equal with liberty. we do not support bloodline and birthright discrimination. people are not born into countries and nationalities. birth certificate holders have been marginalizing and abusing natural born citizens since at least the 1920s. i have not seen a natural born citizen as president in recent history. i have only seen birth certificate holders bickering of their entitlement according to birth: which is the opposite of what the united states is by law: according to our declaration of independence, from the moment our existence was officially stated. please stop birth certificate holders and all the bloodline/birthright tyrants from abusing the name of the united states further by boycotting birth certificates and services that require them.
@ahh6133 жыл бұрын
It doesn't make any difference. If his parents were American citizens, he was a natural-born (as opposed to naturalized) American citizen.
@Awakeningspirit209 ай бұрын
At first I thought his was going to be about Martin Van Buren, the only US President who spoke English as a second language. He was born in Dutch-speaking areas of the British Colonies once known as "New Netherland", a Dutch speaker by birth but coming from a very different colonial heritage as those presidents who were also born in the Colonies as they were at that time.
@keelenjohnson45243 жыл бұрын
john mccain was born in panama
@annpardue46692 жыл бұрын
Chester Arthur in the 1850 New York Federal Census records enumerated on 8 August 1850 shows Chester Arthur was age 20 was born in Vermont in household of Wm Chester a Baptist minister born Ireland and Malvina Arthur born Vermont.
@tammylewis2408 Жыл бұрын
His mother was a US citizen, so he was qualified to be President.
@joeharris38782 жыл бұрын
Common knowledge. What's interesting is at that time Americans understood it disqualified anyone born outside one of the states to fill the president office. In more recent times, nobody has cared, but it has never been an issue since no one else not born in a US state except Arthur was elected. Barry Goldwater, George Romney, John McCain, Ted Cruz, Tulsi Gabbard weren't eligible but they didn't win. Obama was eligible,barely: Hawaii became a state a year or two before he was born there. It has nothing to do with citizenship, it's location. Someone born in another country, at sea, in the District of Columbia, an overseas military base, in Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, anywhere else besides Alabama through Wyoming can't be president.