"If my father had been an American, and my mother British, instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own. to a joint session of Congress and the Supreme Court just weeks after the Pearl Harbor attack. 26, 1941, when he spoke in Washington, D.C. “My mother was American and my ancestors were officers in Washington’s army, I am myself an English-speaking union,” Churchill reportedly said.Ĭhurchill drove his point home on Dec. In 1965, former President Dwight Eisenhower recalled a past conversation with Churchill when he spoke about his American heritage. He was a British citizen, but in 1963, Churchill was the first person even honored by the United States Congress and President as an honorary American citizen. On the anniversary of his birth, Constitution Daily looks back at what the British leader and author Sir Winston Churchill had to say about the American Constitution, which was quite a lot.Īfter all, although Churchill came from a prominent British family on his father’s side, his mother was an American, Jennie Jerome.
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