{"id":42313,"date":"2015-08-20T01:47:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T01:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42313"},"modified":"2015-09-02T22:07:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T22:07:43","slug":"dna-shows-warren-harding-wasnt-americas-first-black-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42313","title":{"rendered":"DNA Shows Warren Harding Wasn\u2019t America\u2019s First Black President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/19\/us\/politics\/dna-that-confirmed-one-warren-harding-rumor-refutes-another.html\" target=\"_blank\">DNA Shows Warren Harding Wasn\u2019t America\u2019s First Black President<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2015-08-18<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peterbakernyt\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Peter Baker<\/b><\/a><\/strong>, Chief White House Correspondent<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Clinton\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Clinton<\/a> was called the first black president because he crossed racial lines so easily, a distinction he lost when <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> became the first actual black president. But for decades, some Americans claimed that the nation\u2019s first black president was really <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Warren_G._Harding\" target=\"_blank\">Warren G. Harding<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that he wasn\u2019t, really. At least that is the result of new <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genetic_testing\" target=\"_blank\">DNA testing<\/a> that according to scientists showed for the first time that Harding almost certainly had no recent ancestors with African blood, despite assertions that were spread far and wide a century ago in efforts to sabotage everything from his marriage to his political career.<\/p>\n<p>The finding was overshadowed last week by the determination through the same testing that Harding did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42232\" target=\"_blank\">father a child<\/a> with a mistress, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nan_Britton\" target=\"_blank\">Nan Britton<\/a>. But the conclusion about Harding\u2019s racial ancestry likewise addresses a mystery that had puzzled historians for many years and provides a seemingly definitive resolution of a subplot that played out during his lifetime&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/19\/us\/politics\/dna-that-confirmed-one-warren-harding-rumor-refutes-another.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNA Shows Warren Harding Wasn\u2019t America\u2019s First Black President The New York Times 2015-08-18 Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent WASHINGTON \u2014 Bill Clinton was called the first black president because he crossed racial lines so easily, a distinction he lost when Barack Obama became the first actual black president. But for decades, some Americans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,459,26,20],"tags":[20686,2640,2703,2327,20685,20688],"class_list":["post-42313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-politics","category-usa","tag-nan-britton","tag-new-york-times","tag-peter-baker","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-warren-g-harding","tag-warren-harding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42313"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42317,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42313\/revisions\/42317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}