article_snippet.sent: Buzzfeed found U.S. Census records and Selective Service documents – draft cards – that establish that three of the former secretary of state's grandparents were born in America.
article_snippet.sent: Clinton claimed on Wednesday that all of Clinton grandparents 'came over' from other countries, but in fact only one was born outside the US .
article_snippet.sent: All my grandparents, you know, came over here,' Clinton said during a small business roundtable event, 'and you know my grandfather went to work in lace mill in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and worked there until my grandfather retired at 65.
article_snippet.sent: Both of Clinton’s maternal grandparents, named Della Howell and Edwin Howell, were born in Illinois, according to Buzzfeed's records research.
article_snippet.sent: And while Clinton paternal grandfather, Hugh Rodham Sr., immigrated to the U.S, Hanna ' was born in Pennsylvania.
article_snippet.sent: In a speech last year in Kentucky, Clinton claimed Hanna 'immigrated with Clinton family as a young girl to Scranton [Pennnsylvania] and went to work, very young, in a silk mill.' '
article_snippet.sent: As has been correctly pointed out,' a campaign spokesperson told Buzzfeed, 'while Clinton grandfather was an immigrant, it appears that Hillary’s grandmother was born shortly after Hillary parents and siblings arrived in the U.S. in the early 1880s.'
article_snippet.sent: Clinton grandparents always spoke about the immigrant experience and, as a result Clinton has always thought of Her grandparents as immigrants,' a campaign spokesperson said.
highlights_snippet.sent: Clinton claimed Wednesday in Iowa that 'all my grandparents came over here' as immigrants .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Clinton said last year that one of Clinton grandmothers immigrated to Pennsylvania and worked in a silk mill .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: But Buzzfeed found American Census records showing that only one Clinton grandfather, adn neither of their wives, was born outside the US .
  