Reuters’ investigation of the bloodlines of U.S. political figures jars in ways unanticipated by its authors.
The Reuters investigation of the bloodlines of U.S. political figures jars in ways unanticipated by its authors.
The study found that the ancestors of all living U.S. presidents save Donald Trump; Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch; and such notable Capitol Hill figures as Sens. Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, and Tammy Duckworth owned other human beings as slaves. In terms of numbers, Reuters traced slaveowners in the ancestry of at least 11 governors, 28 senators, and more than 100 House members.
