Birth Name: Joseph Manchin III
Place of Birth: Farminton, West Virginia
Date of Birth: August 24, 1947
Ethnicity:
*Italian (father)
*Czech (mother)
Joe Manchin is an American politician. A Democrat, he has served as a U.S. Senator from West Virginia since 2010. He was previously Governor of West Virginia, from 2005 to 2010.
Joe’s paternal grandparents were Joseph Manchin (the son of John Manchin) and Kathleen Orocue/Roscoe (the daughter of Rosa). Joseph was born in West Virginia, to Italian parents. Kathleen was Italian.
Joe’s maternal grandparents were Carl/Charles Gvuzd/Gouzd (the son of Frank Gvuzd and Louisa Piskor) and Mary Lucy Mihalic/Michalik (the daughter of John Mihalic and Mary Magdalena Cana). Carl and Mary Lucy were Czech.
Sources: Genealogy of Joe Manchin – http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Genealogy of Joe Manchin (focusing on his mother’s side) – http://www.geni.com
Photo By U.S. Senate (http://manchin.senate.gov/index.cfm) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons