AHC : US President with Russian descent

Very well , the challenge for those who accept it to an American politician with Russian descent to become US president between the 1970s and 1980s in the middle of the Cold War .

As I do not know if there is an American politician with Russian descent at this time , it can be fictitious assumed with POD and his birth. Does anyone accept this challenge? .
 
Harrison Ford had a Russian Jewish mother and is apparently a lifelong Democrat. Let's say he gets into politics. Is anyone not gonna vote for him?
 
Joe Lieberman's paternal grandparents were from Congress Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire.
 
Tom Daschle is descended from Volga Germans, who are about as Russian-American as descendants of Russian Jews.

But really this is a difficult challenge. Less than 1% of the American population is of Russian descent and many of them are recent immigrants. And of course America didn't even get its first non-WASP President until 1961. There simply weren't many white ethnics among America's elite until fairly recently and people with Eastern European ancestry are still rare among them. There hasn't even been a single Governor or Senator of ethnic Russian ancestry, yet alone a presidential candidate.
 
Tom Daschle is descended from Volga Germans, who are about as Russian-American as descendants of Russian Jews.

But really this is a difficult challenge. Less than 1% of the American population is of Russian descent and many of them are recent immigrants. And of course America didn't even get its first non-WASP President until 1961. There simply weren't many white ethnics among America's elite until fairly recently and people with Eastern European ancestry are still rare among them. There hasn't even been a single Governor or Senator of ethnic Russian ancestry, yet alone a presidential candidate.

Never mind Russian: the Polish and Italian communities in the US are a good order of magnitude or more larger and representation on the national ticket is lacking. I could be forgetting but Edmund Muskie is the only Pole I can think of. Not sure of Geraldine Ferraro: don't know if that's her birth name or not. And considering the sizable Scandinavian population in several Midwestern and western states, it's a wonder there hasn't been a major candidate with "sen" at the end of his/her name.
 
And considering the sizable Scandinavian population in several Midwestern and western states, it's a wonder there hasn't been a major candidate with "sen" at the end of his/her name.

Well, Humphrey and Mondale were of Norwegian descent. And John Anderson--admittedly a third party candidate but one who for a while was in the twenties in the 1980 presidential polls--is of Swedish descent.
 
For bonus points could we have the Romanov Mayor Paul Ilyinsky become President? I though at first he would be disqualified but was born in the U.S embassy in London and he did serve in Korea.
 

Well, as long as "ethnic Russian" ancestry isn't required: "Feinstein was born Dianne Emiel Goldman[1] in San Francisco, to Betty (née Rosenburg), a former model, and Leon Goldman, a surgeon. Feinstein's paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Poland, while her maternal grandparents, the Rosenburg family, from Saint Petersburg Russia, were of German-Jewish ancestry,[5] but were of the Russian Orthodox faith as was required for many Jews to reside in Saint Petersburg.[6][7]..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein
 
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