If it had been allowed, who would be some likely immigrant Presidents of the US?

Okay, since we're talking about Lafayette? What about all those other foreign volunteers? Kasimir Pulaski, if he had not been killed in the last month of the war? I understand that he was something of a career military man with just an idealistic idea of freedom, but as a nobleman landowner he could have stuck around as an organizer bureaucrat and slowly worked his way up through the ranks. Then again, if he hadn't heroically died on the last siege of the war, he would probably just faded into nothingness either in the new republic or in his native Poland.

Maybe Baron von Steuben ? he might be interested
 
And while we're talking about Arnold Schwarzenegger, what about former secretary of state Madeleine Allbright. It is my understanding that she was ineligible to run because she was born in London as a child of a US ambassador so American,but not born on native soil... Today a case coup be made that she did not violate the clause as she was de facto born TO the embassy, which would be equivalent to born IN the embassy, but in 2000, she decided not even to try...

You're mistaken, Madeline Albright was born "Marie Jana Korbelová" in Prague, to Czech diplomats. Her family emigrated to the US after WW2, whereupon she changed her name.

As for the second part, so long as one of your parents is an American citizen, it doesn't matter where you're born; you're an American citizen, and thus eligible for the Presidency.
 
You're mistaken, Madeline Albright was born "Marie Jana Korbelová" in Prague, to Czech diplomats. Her family emigrated to the US after WW2, whereupon she changed her name.

As for the second part, so long as one of your parents is an American citizen, it doesn't matter where you're born; you're an American citizen, and thus eligible for the Presidency.

so Winston Churchill basically. One parent is required I assume ?
 
But he was nominated in 1823 by the DR caucus for Vice-President (with Crawford as the top man), wasn't he? Sure he withdrew (fearing he wouldn't win), but the fact he was nominated lead me to think he was eligible for VP and thus the Presidency.

Gallatin was eligible. The grandfather clause applied to ratification of the Constitution, not the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Lafayette seems like a good choice for President, having fought in two revolutions. And Schwarzenegger is the most recent person that comes to mind.
 
According to the Constitution, Hamilton was eligible for the presidency, as he was residing in the US at the time of its formation. Gallatin, of course, was not.

Gallatin was eligible in OTL (and for a while was a candidate for vice-president in 1824). This was because he was a US citizen by the time the Constitution had been adopted--though how long he had been one was a subject of some dispute. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/soc.history.what-if/ZfED6GpHglo/5hGe6lAhXoAJ
 
On a more serious note- Philip Sheridan; General during the Civil War, hero, helped develop Yellowstone National Park, General-in-Chief and General of the Army (means 5-stars and highest rank possible), was the person in charge of the military reconstruction efforts of Chicago after the Great Fire. He was famous enough to get on the $5 and $10 bills. He had presidential aspirations. And quite the resume.

He claimed to have been born in Albany, NY. However, evidence shows he most likely was born in Ireland. If this was proved after he was president (possibly even after he dies), the Constitution might have been changed as people realized "Hey, nothing bad happened under President Sheridan and turns out he wasn't born an American".
 
But Arnold, if it had been possible, would probably have run as a moderate, wouldn't he? Similar to Trump in that he was an iconic celebrity, but very different politically.

Trump is a populist plain and simple. I could have seen Arnold adopting some populist like positions most likely not nearly as divisive as Trump but he could have gone that route.
 
Hamilton, if only he didn't publish the Reynolds Pamphlet and ruin his own career. Who does that, anyway?


Well. It's probably because he liked to

Write like he's running out of time.

Luckily during the duel he

Threw away his shot

While he held his pistol in his

Right hand, man

And he always had

A mind at work

Because as a kid of the Caribbean he wished for a war

And... Shit... Umm...

I don't know...

Sit down John you fat motherfucker?
 
Hamilton, if only he didn't publish the Reynolds Pamphlet and ruin his own career. Who does that, anyway?

A man who has to explain why he's been paying sums of money to a man now facing charges in a financial scandal.

And really, the Reynolds Affair was one of many things that destroyed Hamilton's career. All of which can ultimately be summed up as "being Alexander Hamilton".

But then, I'm waiting for the present wave of Hamilton adulation to end, the wheel to turn and people to remember "Oh, that's right--he was a terrific asshole, wasn't he?"
 
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