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===German-American presidents===
There have been three presidents whose fathers were of German descent: [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] (original family name ''Eisenhauer'' and maternal side is also German/Swiss), [[Herbert Hoover]] (original family name ''Huber''), and [[Donald Trump]] (
Presidents with maternal German ancestry include [[Harry Truman]], whose maternal grandfather Solomon Young was a descendant of Johann Georg Jung and Hans Michael Gutknecht, who emigrated from Germany together in 1752,<ref>ROOTED IN HISTORY: The Genealogy of Harry S. Truman, Harry S. Truman Library Genealogy https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/genealogy/index.php?m=g_essay {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200608091159/https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/genealogy/index.php?m=g_essay |date=June 8, 2020 }}</ref> [[Richard Nixon|Richard Milhous Nixon]], whose maternal ancestors were Germans who anglicized ''Melhausen'' to Milhous,<ref>Stephen E. Ambose ''Nixon'' chapter 1 (1987)</ref> and [[Barack Obama]], whose maternal family's ancestry includes German immigrants from the South German town of [[Besigheim]]<ref>{{Citation |url = https://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-06-04-obama-roots_N.htm |work = USA Today |title = Researchers: Obama has German roots |date = June 4, 2009 |access-date = August 28, 2017 |archive-date = May 13, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110513040600/http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-06-04-obama-roots_N.htm |url-status = live }}</ref> and from [[Bischwiller]] in the [[Alsace]] region that is nowadays part of France; both families came to America around 1750.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.wargs.com/political/obama.html |title = Ancestry of Barack Obama |access-date = October 9, 2008 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081203132159/http://www.wargs.com/political/obama.html |archive-date = December 3, 2008 }}</ref>
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