• John McCain’s family roots are Scotch-Irish. His great-aunt was a
descendant of Robert the Bruce, an early Scottish king.

• John Young, an McCain ancestor, served on General George
Washington's staff during the American Revolution.

• In 1848 the McCain clan relocated to Mississippi and number of
McCain's ancestors fought in the Civil War on the side of the
Confederacy.

• McCain's great-great grandfather, William Alexander McCain, owned a
plantation in Mississippi with 52 slaves.  According to documentation
from the Carroll County Courthouse, the Carrollton Merrill Museum,
the Mississippi State Archives and the Greenwood, Mississippi Public
Library and including slave schedules from Sept. 8, 1860,  he owned
slaves labeled either ‘black’ or ‘mulatto’ and ranging in age from 6
months to 60 years.  He later died during the Civil War as a soldier
for the Mississippi cavalry.

• Obama's ancestry includes Scottish, Irish, Cherokee Indians and the
Lueo people of Kenya.

• According 1850 Census records from Kentucky, Barack Obama's
great-great-great-great grandfather, George Washington Overall, owned
two slaves, a 15 year-old girl and a 25-year-old man. The same records
show that one of Obama's great-great-great-great-great-grandmothers,
Mary Duvall, also owned two black slaves, a 60 year-old man and a 58
year-old woman.