in the late 19th century. His second term as president was cut short by an assassin's bullet. Theodore Roosevelt (Irish, Scotch-Irish, Dutch, Scotch, English & French) 26th President, 1901-09: His mother, Mittie Bulloch, had Ulster-Scots ancestors who emigrated from Glenoe, County Antrim, in May 1729. Roosevelt praised "Irish Presbyterians" as "a bold and hardy race." However, he is also the man who said: "But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts "native" before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen." William Howard Taft (Irish & English) 27th President 1909–13: His great-great-great-grandfather, Robert Taft, was born in 1640 in Ireland and immigrated to America during the mid 17th century. Robert Taft was from County Louth and died in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts. Woodrow Wilson (Scotch-Irish) 28th President, 1913–21: Of Ulster-Scot descent on both sides of the family, his roots were very strong and dear to him. He was a grandson of a printer from Dergalt, near Strabane, County Tyrone, whose former home is open to visitors. Throughout his career, he reflected on the influence of his ancestral values on his constant quest for knowledge and fulfillment. Warren G. Harding (Scotch-Irish & English) 29th President 1921–23 Harry S. Truman (Scotch-Irish & German) 33rd President 1945–53 John F. Kennedy (Irish) 35th President 1961–63 (ancestors from County Wexford) Richard Nixon (Irish, Scotch-Irish, English & German) 37th President, 1969–74: The Nixon ancestors left Ulster in the mid-18th century; the Quaker Milhous family ties were with County Antrim and County Kildare and County Cork. Jimmy Carter (Scotch-Irish & English) 39th President 1977–1981 (County Antrim) Ronald Reagan (Irish, English & Scottish) 40th President 1981–89: He was the great-grandson, on his father's side, of Irish migrants from County Tipperary who came to America via Canada and England in the 1850s and 1870s. His mother was of Scottish and English ancestry. George H. W. Bush (Irish and English) 41st President 1989–93: County Wexford historians have found that his now apparent ancestor, Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke (known as Strongbow for his arrow skills) – is remembered as a desperate, land-grabbing warlord whose calamitous foreign adventure led to the suffering of generations. Shunned by Henry II, he offered his services as a mercenary in the 12th-century invasion of Wexford in exchange for power and land. He would