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Andrew Johnson had the most humble background and the fewest advantages of any president. He had no family connections with any money or prestige. His father died when he was a baby and his mother had no money. He was apprenticed out to work while still a boy and was given no schooling at all. Furthermore he was from a slave state at a time when slavery was a fighting matter.

Kennedy was an Irish Catholic, a group that was widely disrespected at one time.

Obama was half black and the son of an alien -- both seemingly handicaps to a political career.

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