The following is from The Liverpool Echo, my hometown rag, the day after Obama’s massive victory. Barack Obama’s road to the presidency started in Liverpool!
Nov 5 2008 by Catherine Jones, Liverpool Echo
BARACK OBAMA’S road to the American presidency started 150 years ago on the banks of the Mersey.
His great, great, great-grandfather sailed from Liverpool to the United States in 1850 to look for a better life.
Irishman Falmouth Kearney was a passenger on the SS Marmion which took emigrants on the Trans-Atlantic crossing from Liverpool to New York.
While the teenage Kearney, whose father was a shoemaker, headed west to escape the effects of the Irish potato famine, thousands more who had the same idea never left Liverpool, creating the city’s massive Irish community.
