Luxembourgian American
      Dennis Hastert • Paul Lauterbur • Red Faber |
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Luxembourgian Americans, also known as Luxembourg Americans (sometimes hyphenated in either spelling), are citizens of the United States of Luxembourgian ancestry. According to the United States' 2000 Census, there are 45,139 Americans of full or partial Luxembourgian descent.[1] However, demographers regard this as an undercount, as the index of inconsistency is high, and many, if not most, people from Luxembourgian ancestry have a tendency to identify simply as Americans or, if of mixed European ancestry, nominate a more recent and differentiated ethnic group. In 1940 the number of Americans with Luxembourgian ancestry was around 100.000.[2]
Luxembourg Americans are overwhelmingly concentrated in the Midwest, where most originally settled in the nineteenth century. At the 2000 Census, the states with the largest self-reported Luxembourg American populations are Illinois (6,963), Wisconsin (6,580), Minnesota (5,867), Iowa (5,624), and California (2,824).[3]
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- Chris Evert (born 1954), tennis player and winner of 21 Grand Slam titles
- Red Faber (1888–1976), baseball player and Baseball Hall of Fame inductee
- Hugo Gernsback (1884–1967), inventor and science fiction writer
- Dennis Hastert (born 1942), Republican politician and former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
- Paul O. Husting (1866–1917), Democratic politician and former United States Senator for Wisconsin
- Richard F. Kneip (1933–1987), Democratic politician and former Governor of South Dakota
- Paul Lauterbur (1929–2007), chemist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Edward Steichen (1879–1973), photographer, painter, art gallery and museum curator
- Matthew Woll (1880–1956), trade unionist and former Vice President of the AFL-CIO
- Loretta Young (1913–2000), actress and 'Best Actress' Academy Award-winner
- John L. May (1922–1994), clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. Served as Bishop of Mobile and Archbishop of St. Louis.
- Nicholas Muller (1836–1917), Democratic politician and former United States Representative from New York.
[edit] See also
Luxembourgers
Luxembourg Brazilian
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ "Total US population by ancestry". United States Census Bureau. 2000. http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/QTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=01000US&-qr_name=DEC_2000_SF3_U_QTP13&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF3_U. Retrieved 2006-07-29.
- ^ "De L'état à la nation 1839-1989" Imprimeries St. Paul. p. 145.
- ^ "US population by ancestry and state". United States Census Bureau. 2000. http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DTTable?_bm=y&-context=dt&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF3_U&-_geoSkip=0&-CONTEXT=dt&-mt_name=DEC_2000_SF3_U_PCT018&-tree_id=403&-_skip=0&-redoLog=false&-all_geo_types=N&-currentselections=DEC_2000_SF3_U_PCT018&-geo_id=04000US01&-geo_id=04000US02&-geo_id=04000US04&-geo_id=04000US05&-geo_id=04000US06&-geo_id=04000US08&-geo_id=04000US09&-geo_id=04000US10&-geo_id=04000US11&-geo_id=04000US12&-geo_id=04000US13&-geo_id=04000US15&-geo_id=04000US16&-geo_id=04000US17&-geo_id=04000US18&-geo_id=04000US19&-geo_id=04000US20&-geo_id=04000US21&-geo_id=04000US22&-geo_id=04000US23&-geo_id=04000US24&-geo_id=04000US25&-geo_id=04000US26&-geo_id=04000US27&-geo_id=04000US28&-geo_id=04000US29&-geo_id=04000US30&-geo_id=04000US31&-geo_id=04000US32&-geo_id=04000US33&-geo_id=04000US34&-geo_id=04000US35&-geo_id=04000US36&-geo_id=04000US37&-geo_id=04000US38&-geo_id=04000US39&-geo_id=04000US40&-geo_id=04000US41&-geo_id=04000US42&-geo_id=04000US44&-geo_id=04000US45&-geo_id=04000US46&-geo_id=04000US47&-geo_id=04000US48&-geo_id=04000US49&-geo_id=04000US50&-geo_id=04000US51&-geo_id=04000US53&-geo_id=04000US54&-geo_id=04000US55&-geo_id=04000US56&-geo_id=04000US72&-search_results=01000US&-_showChild=Y&-format=&-_lang=en&-SubjectID=11759884. Retrieved 2006-07-29.
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