Charles Curtis was the first person of color to become Vice-President of the United States, by the way…
Charles Curtis, 31st Vice President (1929-1933):
The son of Orren Curtis, a white man, and Ellen Pappan, who was one-quarter Kaw Indian, Charles Curtis on his mother’s side was the great-great grandson of White Plume, a Kansa-Kaw chief who had offered assistance to the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804. White Plume’s daughter married Louis Gonville, a French-Canadian fur trader, and their daughter, Julie Gonville, married Louis Pappan.
https://www.cop.senate.gov/about/officers-staff/vice-president/VP_Charles_Curtis.htm
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Charles Curtis:
The 1st time I’d ever heard of him was during a Ryan Dawson livestream on Bit Chute.
I continue to be amazed at how much history we weren’t taught and is never talked about.
Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Also (from Wikipedia) – A member of the Kaw Nation born in the Kansas Territory, Curtis was the first person with any Native American ancestry and with acknowledged non-European ancestry to reach either of the highest offices in the federal executive branch. He is the highest-ranking enrolled Native American ever to serve in the federal government. He is the most recent Executive Branch officer to have been born in a territory rather than a state.