Carl Sferrazza Anthony

There's as much of the old sod in the White House as there is on its south lawn.The backgrounds of America's First Families are diverse: Nancy Reagan and Lady Bird Johnson have Spanish forebears; Herbert Hoover was Swiss and Canadian; Mamie Eisenhower was part Swedish while Ike was German; Martin Van Buren and the Roosevelts were Dutch; James Garfield had a royal strain of … [Read more...] about Presidents & First Ladies of Irish Ancestry