Search Links Trump to Founding Father Reginald Trump

Shocking results of a genealogical investigation into Donald Trump's ancestry have linked the GOP presidential candidate to one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

Reginald Trump (1736 – 1814) was a Governor of New Jersey's Provincial Assembly, a member of the First Continental Congress, and - historical records show - Donald Trump's 7th great grandfather.

One of America's first millionaires, Trump made his fortune in ship building and factory construction, most notably the merchant ship Hildreth, which took 32 lives when it caught fire in Port Newark in 1777, and the Sullivan Mill in Trenton, which collapsed in 1804, killing 105.

"One should never skimp on profits by suffering over details," Reginald Trump famously once remarked.

Notorious for his contempt of the Dutch, whom he labeled 'Fopdoodles', as well as liberal Whigs and Native Americans, Trump was known for his misogynistic vitriol and for inventing an early version of polo in which Indians were clubbed from horseback.

"Women and men without property should not be permitted to vote, as they are too lazy and stupid," he penned in an anti-suffrage tract published in 1792. "The voice of the indigent, who would not be so poor if not for being such fopdoodles, should not be allowed to corrupt public policy, while women should keep themselves occupied satisfying their men and baking them puddings."

According to records, Trump was married three times before finally wedding his first daughter Esther, Donald's 7th great grandmother.