JFK was voted the greatest political leader with Irish ancestry, ahead of Ronald Reagan second and Obama third, in an online poll of over 4,000 Americans and Brits conducted by YouGov for the genealogy site findmypast.com and its Irish partner, findmypast.ie.

Che Guevara, the Latin American revolutionary who also had Irish roots, ranks fourth.

The findmypast poll asked respondents in the U.S. and UK to pick from a list of 10 political leaders who had won prominence in countries beyond Irish shores.

While Obama and JFK polled similar percentages with U.S. and UK respondents, averaging 12% and 25% respectively, Reagan polled nearly four times as many votes in the U.S. (35%) as in the UK (8%). Indeed, he would have topped the poll based on U.S. votes alone, while the UK alone ranked him third behind Obama.

Obama’s Irish forebear, Falmouth Keaney, migrated from Moneygall in County Offaly in 1850. Keaney was Obama’s maternal great-great-great grandfather.

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