I have just read an article in the Arcade@Home that claims that Thomas 
Jefferson was our first president with black blood.  Do any of the 
historians on this list have any information on this allegation?  The artcle 
also states that Andrew Jackson was the son of an Irish  wonan who married a 
black man, that Abraham Lincoln was the illegitimate son of an African man 
and allegedly an Ethiopian woman, that Warren Hardng had black ancestors on 
both sets of parents, and that Calvin Coolidge claimed his mother was dark 
because of mixed Indian ancestry.  I have never heard of any of these 
before.  Is there any truth here?

Laura Catherine 

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