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lostnfound

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28. Mitch is proud of his roots and thought it worth describing his great grandfather in an interview

Sat Jan 22, 2022, 05:31 PM

Jan 2022

Actually it was his great great grandfather who “owned” them. Personally I have a grandparents who were born in 1861 and I consider them to be very relevant to who I am.

In a Dec. 28, 2014, interview with The News Courier, a daily newspaper published in Athens that covers Limestone County, McConnell described his ancestry in detail.

“My great-grandfather was a circuit-riding Cumberland Presbyterian minister,” the senator told the paper. “We still have his original saddle in my wife’s and my archives in Louisville.”

If it’s relevant to Mitch that his great grandfather was a “ circuit-riding Cumberland Presbyterian minister” the rest of his family’s history is fair game.

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What relevance does his great grandfather have? brooklynite Jan 2022 #1

Listen to the whole thing gratuitous Jan 2022 #3

Joe Biden's relatives had slaves; he seems to have turned out all right. brooklynite Jan 2022 #6

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Furniture in his mind. Joe Biden evolved, Mitch not so much. lostnfound Jan 2022 #29

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I have chopped cotton. Cracklin Charlie Jan 2022 #25

Sorry to nitpick, but... momta Jan 2022 #23

Sorry. Cracklin Charlie Jan 2022 #26

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he definitely would have been able to do that, especially if he did not yellowdogintexas Jan 2022 #35

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Mitch is proud of his roots and thought it worth describing his great grandfather in an interview lostnfound Jan 2022 #28

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