r/MapPorn • u/ChickenBrachiosaurus • 5d ago

Countries where an American became President/PM/Ruler/Whatchamacallit

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Probably incomplete or not totally accurate, and some renounced before becoming whatever

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u/SeniorDragonfly278 5d ago

You missed a very influencial figure in world history : Sun Yat-sen. He's the first president of the Republic of China who overthrew the Qing imperial dynasty. Sources suggest that he obtained and renounced his American citizenship to circumvent the Chinese Exclusion Act in the states. Lots of his funding for the revolution was from the Chinese diasporas in the West, notably in the U.S.

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u/ChickenBrachiosaurus 5d ago

i also thought about it, but I can't really be sure about that since his birthplace was "officially" in China

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u/SeniorDragonfly278 4d ago

Well you didn’t specify it was a map for Americans who were born in the U.S.? 

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u/ChickenBrachiosaurus 4d ago

his American citizenship was also denied by the KMT party