page_title: List of Scottish Americans
section_title: Government and military
hierarchical_section_title: List of Scottish Americans / List / Government and military
caption_attribution_description: العربية: الرئيس الأمريكي باراك أوباما خِلال جلسة التقاط صورةٍ له وهو جالس في سبيل الحُصول على صُورةٍ رسميَّةٍ توضع في المكتب البيضاوي بتاريخ 6 كانون الأوَّل (ديسمبر) 2012. Čeština: Barack Obama — prezident Spojených států amerických, oficiální portrét, Oválná pracovna, 6. prosince 2012. English: U.S. President Barack Obama's official photograph in the Oval Office on 6 December 2012. فارسی: نگاره‌ای از باراک اوباما چهل و چهارمین رئیس‌جمهور ایالات متحد آمریکا در ۶ دسامبر ۲۰۱۲ در دفتر ریاست جمهوری Lëtzebuergesch: De President vun den USA Barack Obama op sengem offizielle Portrait am Oval Officede 6. Dezember 2012. Українська: Президент Сполучених Штатів Америки Барак Обама на офіційній фотографії в Овальному кабінеті, 6 грудня 2012 року.
context_page_description: This is a list of notable Scottish Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained U.S. citizenship and their American descendants.
  To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Scottish American or must have references showing they are Scottish American and are notable.
context_section_description: Creighton Abrams, US Army general, commanded military operations in Vietnam from 1968–1972
  John Adair
  Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, US Air Force pilot and astronaut, second man to walk on the moon in 1969 on Apollo 11. First mission into space was Gemini 12 in 1966.
  William Alexander, major-general during the American Revolutionary War
  John Anderson, colonial governor of New Jersey in 1736
  Matthew Arbuckle, general, closely identified with the Indian Territory (Oklahoma) for the last thirty years of his life; commanded Fort Smith near Indian Territory; established Forts Gibson and Towson in Indian Territory
  Neil Armstrong, Naval aviator and astronaut, first man to walk on the moon in 1969 on Apollo 11. First mission into space was Gemini 8 in 1966.
  Chester A. Arthur, American president
  John S. Barbour Jr.
  Maryanne Trump Barry, Judge
  Alan Bean, astronaut and fourth person to walk on the moon in 1969 on Apollo 12
  James B. Beck
  Austin Blair
  Sherrod Brown, Democratic Senator of Ohio
  Jim Bowie, frontiersman and a defender of the Alamo
  Omar N. Bradley, general
  John Breathitt
  George A. Bruce
  Albert Bryant Jr.
  Bay Buchanan
  Pat Buchanan
  Irvine Bulloch
  Ambrose Burnside
  Joseph R. Burton
  George H.W. Bush, 41st president of the United States
  George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
  Jeb Bush, former Republican governor of Florida
  John C. Caldwell
  Archibald Campbell
  Bill Campbell
  George W. Campbell
  John B. T. Campbell III
  Thomas Mitchell Campbell
  William Joseph Campbell
  Wooda Nicholas Carr
  Kit Carson
  Richard Caswell
  Chris Christie, former Republican governor of New Jersey
  William Claflin, Governor of Massachusetts
  George Rogers Clark
  Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States
  Hillary Clinton, former First Lady of the United States, mother is of Scottish ancestry
  Jack Coghill
  Merian C. Cooper
  Samuel W. Crawford, US Army surgeon and Union general in the American Civil War
  Davy Crockett, frontiersman, U.S. Congressman and a defender of the Alamo
  Marcus Henderson Cruikshank
  Alexander J. Dallas
  George M. Dallas, Vice president of the United States, US Senator from Pennsylvania, Mayor of Philadelphia and Secretary of the Treasury. US Minister to Court of St. James and Russia
  Howard Dean, Governor of Vermont
  John Edwards
  James E. Ferguson
  Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States
  William Fleming
  James Florio, Governor of New Jersey
  John B. Frazier
  John Kenneth Galbraith, economist
  Alexander Garden, American Revolutionary War soldier
  James Lorraine Geddes
  James Gilfillan, 13th Treasurer of the United States
  Henry Bell Gilkeson
  Newt Gingrich, former US Congressman and Speaker of the House.
  John Glenn, former US Senator from Ohio, Marine Corps aviator and astronaut; first American to orbit the earth, Mercury/Friendship 7
  John B. Gordon, Confederate general
  Arthur F. Gorham, World War II paratrooper and hero during the invasion of Sicily
  Archibald Gracie III
  Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senator from New York
  Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States, Union Army General, 1864 promoted to Lieutenant General and Commander of all the Union armies in American Civil War.
  Charles McNeill Gray
  Robert Gray
  William Halsey Jr., Fleet Admiral during World War II in the Pacific theater
  Alexander Hamilton, first Secretary of the Treasury
  John Hancock, president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and first signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence, known for his large signature
  Steny Hoyer, Democratic House Majority leader in the 116th Congress, and a U.S. representative from Maryland's 5th congressional district
  Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States
  Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States. Colonel of the 23rd Ohio in the American Civil War, Later Brevetted to Brigadier General then Major General during the Civil War
  George Hairston, politician
  Robert Hairston, politician, military officer
  Patrick Henry, Revolutionary War officer, colonel of the 1st Virginia Infantry, known for the "give me libert
caption: Barack Obama, 44th President of the U.S.
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