Has anybody with a foreign accent ever been elected to any important office?
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Joe Republic
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« on: December 17, 2006, 07:43:28 PM »
This just popped into my head.

Well?  Does anybody know if it's happened?  If not, do you think it's likely to happen?
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« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2006, 07:44:24 PM »
I'd say the Governorship of California is an important office. Or what else did you have in mind?
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« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2006, 07:49:34 PM »
Martin Van Buren had a Dutch accent (he grew up speaking Dutch) from every account I've ever heard as English was his second language. Also I believe some of the early presidents may have had English accents, but don't quote me on that one.
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« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2006, 07:57:02 PM »
Quote from: Gully Foyle on December 17, 2006, 07:44:24 PM
I'd say the Governorship of California is an important office. Or what else did you have in mind?

Holy f*cking Christ.  I can be such a moron when I want to be.
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« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2006, 07:59:14 PM »
Quote from: Joe Republic on December 17, 2006, 07:57:02 PM
Quote from: Gully Foyle on December 17, 2006, 07:44:24 PM
I'd say the Governorship of California is an important office. Or what else did you have in mind?

Holy f*cking Christ.  I can be such a moron when I want to be.

Well, it's still a pretty good question Joe.
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« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2006, 12:57:41 AM »
John Peter Altgeld, Governor of Illinois (born in Germany)

Carl Schurz, Senator from Missouri and Secretary of the Interior (actually was part of the 1848 Revolution in Prussia)

Tom Lantos (CA-12, for the last 25 years, born in Hungary)

Those were just off the top of my head.
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« Reply #6 on: December 18, 2006, 02:19:19 AM »
What about Albert Gallatan or C. Douglas Dillon? (Ok, Dillon was just Treasury Secretary)
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« Reply #7 on: December 18, 2006, 03:15:38 AM »
Quote from: J. J. on December 18, 2006, 12:57:41 AM
Tom Lantos (CA-12, for the last 25 years, born in Hungary)

I didn't know that.  I've never heard him speak, to my knowledge.
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« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2006, 03:17:56 AM »
Quote from: StatesRights on December 17, 2006, 07:49:34 PM
Also I believe some of the early presidents may have had English accents, but don't quote me on that one.

I've read that somewhere too.  Apparently the American accent as we know it didn't really develop until the Irish and Eastern Europeans starting migrating en masse.
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« Reply #9 on: December 18, 2006, 06:47:44 PM »
Well, there's George W. Bush.

...that is a foreign accent, right?

...English wasn't his first language, right...?
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« Reply #10 on: December 18, 2006, 06:53:52 PM »
Quote from: Joe Republic on December 18, 2006, 03:15:38 AM
Quote from: J. J. on December 18, 2006, 12:57:41 AM
Tom Lantos (CA-12, for the last 25 years, born in Hungary)

I didn't know that.  I've never heard him speak, to my knowledge.

Sure you have. 



He says "Excellent". And is plotting to over-throw the Galactic Republic.
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« Reply #11 on: December 20, 2006, 07:49:03 AM »
How about Henry Kissinger?
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« Reply #12 on: December 20, 2006, 08:58:41 AM »
Was never elected.
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« Reply #13 on: December 20, 2006, 11:01:01 PM »
Lantos put some pressure on a nursing home that was owned by a Hungarian social group to get them to unionize; it was my union at the time.  He could do it because he was of Hungarian decent.

I heard him speak after that; it is not a particularly thick accent.
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« Reply #14 on: January 01, 2007, 12:26:50 PM »
« Edited: January 01, 2007, 12:29:26 PM by strangeland »
Quote from: gporter on January 01, 2007, 11:04:04 AM
Quote from: Joey Jo-Jo Jr. Shabadoo on December 17, 2006, 07:43:28 PM
This just popped into my head.

Well?  Does anybody know if it's happened?  If not, do you think it's likely to happen?

I am probablly wrong. But didn`t JFK have a funny accent?

nah the kennedys just tawk in a vewry nayzal saundin bahwstin acksent

btw I know FDR didn't have a foreign accent, but his accent doesn't sound like any American accent I've ever heard:-/

Plus I'd imagine there's been a congressman or mayor from south Florida with a Cuban accent at some point. 
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