Some Notable Americans of Welsh Descent

The Welsh, currently at 0.6% of the US population, have had an enormous influence on America

John Adams- President of the United States, Vice President of the United States (1735-1826)

John Quincy Adams – President of the United States, 8th Secretary of State (1767–1848)

Calvin Coolidge – twenty-ninth Vice President (1921–1923) and thirtieth President of the United States (1923–1929)

Jefferson Davis (1808–1889) – soldier, politician, and first and only President of the Confederate States (1862–1865)

Thomas Jefferson – 3rd President of the United States, 1st Secretary of States

Robert E. Lee – Confederate general

Francis Lewis – United States Declaration of Independence signatory

Abraham Lincoln – 16th President of the United States

James Madison – 4th President of the United StatesJohn Marshall – statesman, Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court

James Monroe (1758–1831) fifth president of the US

William Penn (1644–1718) Founder of Pennsylvania

Daniel Webster (1782–1852) United States Senator and Secretary of State

J. P. Morgan (1837–1913) banker

William Fargo (1818–1881) pioneer expressman

Howard Hughes (1905–1976) pioneering American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer

Daniel Boone (1734–1820) American pioneer

John L. Lewis (1880–1969) organized labor union leader

Meriwether Lewis (1774–1809) explorer

Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904) journalist/explorer

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) one of the most prominent and influential architects of the first half of the 20th century

Elihu Yale (1649–1721) first benefactor of Yale University

Jesse James, cowboy/outlaw.

Tom Cruise (born 1962)

Bette Davis (1908–1989) two-time Academy Award-winning actress of stage, screen and television

Glenn Ford (1916–2006) film actor

Anthony Perkins (1932–1992) An Academy Award-nominated stage and screen actor

D. W. Griffith (1875–1948) early film director

Bob Hope (1903–2003) actor/comedian

Sir Anthony Hopkins (born 1937) Academy-Award winning film/stage actor

Myrna Loy (1905–1993) actress

Susan Sarandon (born 1946) Oscar-winning actress  

Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) novelist/playwright

Jack London (1876–1916) author

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