He was born in Virginia, parts of which had been colonized for over a century by the time he was born. Unless you mean because the US didn’t technically exist when he was born, but I don’t think there’s any evidence the Constitution intended to exclude people born before the Revolutionary War.
That’s one of those facts that seems like it shouldn’t be true, but I think that’s just because history classes tend to compress so much of the colonial period to jump straight to the Revolution.
He was born in Virginia, parts of which had been colonized for over a century by the time he was born. Unless you mean because the US didn’t technically exist when he was born, but I don’t think there’s any evidence the Constitution intended to exclude people born before the Revolutionary War.
That’s one of those facts that seems like it shouldn’t be true, but I think that’s just because history classes tend to compress so much of the colonial period to jump straight to the Revolution.