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Donald Trump’s paternal ancestors trace to Kallstadt in the Palatinate (then Bavarian) region of Germany: his grandfather Friedrich (Friederich/Frederick) Trump was born there in 1869 and emigrated to...
Reputable historians and several well-sourced journalistic accounts report that Friedrich (Frederick) Trump ran restaurants and hotels in the Pacific Northwest and Yukon during the Klondike era that r...
Donald Trump attended Fordham University from 1964–1966 and then transferred to the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, graduating in 1968; reporting and biographical sources attribute the mo...
Records show Friedrich (Frederick) Trump emigrated from Kallstadt, Bavaria, to the United States in 1885 and appears in U.S. immigration and census records under anglicized names; biographers and publ...
Donald J. Trump transferred from Fordham University to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1966 and graduated from Wharton with a BS in economics in 1968; contemporaneous and later...
Friedrich (Frederick) Trump emigrated from Kallstadt, Bavaria, to the United States in 1885 at age 16 and arrived in New York in mid-October of that year; contemporary accounts and family memoirs plac...
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Kallstadt’s parish and civil registers record multiple spellings of a local surname—forms such as Trum/Trump/Trumpff and related variants appear in village archives—supporting the view that the family...
The Trump surname traces to a long German lineage that scholars and records show was once spelled "Drumpf" in Kallstadt but had become "Trump" at various points before and after emigration; Friedrich ...
Three mainstream biographers—Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher (Trump Revealed), Michael D’Antonio (Never Enough), and Gwenda Blair (The Trumps)—are most frequently cited in coverage as providing detail...
Historians resolve discrepancies about Friedrich (Frederick) Trump’s birth details by triangulating German church/baptismal records, U.S. immigration and census entries, and later secondary biographie...