![]() They include eight chief executives of the 11 states that formed the Confederate States of America, which seceded and waged war to preserve slavery. states also had governors who are descendants of slaveholders, Reuters found. ![]() Supreme Court justices - Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch - also have direct ancestors who enslaved people. Bush, Bill Clinton and - through his white mother’s side - Barack Obama. president - except Donald Trump - are direct descendants of slaveholders: Jimmy Carter, George W. In addition, Reuters determined that President Joe Biden and every living former U.S. Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham and Tom Cotton, and Democrats Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Duckworth and Jeanne Shaheen. They include some of the most influential politicians in America: Republican Sens. Leila Register / NBC News Getty Images ReutersĪmong those lawmakers from the 117th Congress are Democrats and Republicans alike. Of that group, more than a quarter of the Senate - 28 members - can trace their families to at least one slaveholder. ![]() Among 536 members of the last sitting Congress, for example, Reuters determined at least 100 descend from slaveholders.
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