President Winston Churchill

So lets say that Winston Churchill decides to emigrate from the United Kingdom to the United States at some point and gets into politics and eventually gets the presidency. We really do not need an early POD that might turn him into an entirely different person to make him eligible, all he needs is to be a natural born citizen (which he was through his mother) and to be a resident for 14 years. I even think a lot of people might not notice that he is British since the American and British dialects were vary similar at that time and also because most people did not meet the candidates, usually reading about them in the newspapers.

I suppose that he would be vary conservative and would be an Anglophile but I am not entirely sure as what he would do. Maybe he would build up a vast American empire perhaps with a strong alliance with Britain.

Lets assume that he becomes POTUS in 1936 or 1940 and that Lord Halifax takes his place as Prime Minister for WWII.
 
I don't know if you've taken a look at how the various elections went in the '30s, but this is not really plausible.
 
And usually people who become citizens at birth are born in this country? Any exceptions?

Yes, anyone born to an American citizen (his mother in this case) and is registered as soon as possible as a citizen of the U.S. is a natural-born citizen. It is what happens when American tourists, or people currently living in other countries for work or what-have-you register their children and they are still natural-born.
 
Query. WAS she an American citizen?

Back then it was often assumed that on marrying, the wife took the husband's citizenship. Or, if they were moving to the wife's country, I suppose that he might get hers.

The US did not recognize dual-citizenship until recently, so if she traveled on a British passport with her husband, she might well be deemed to have given up her citizenship.

If she voted in a British election she would certainly have been deemed to have renounced her citizenship.
 

Sumeragi

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His mother was American. If she registered him for citizenship at birth he would be a natural-born citizen.

No he doesn't. We have gone over this in previous threads. Natural-born citizen does not mean born inside the country. It means you are a citizen at birth.


That was from the mid-20th century. Churchill was born in 1874, and combined with the facts that his mother was Lady Randolph Churchill, and it was normal convention for the wife to assume the citizenship of the husband, her mother would not have been an American citizen after her marriage, conducted at the British Embassy in Paris. We would have to have her give birth to Winston in the US for this to work out.
 
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