Barack Obama SSN 042-68-4425 not linked to Jean Paul Ludwig
Question asked:
“Barack Obama's Social Security Number 042-68-4425 was originally assigned to Jean Paul Ludwig, a French immigrant born in 1890 who died in Hawaii, and Obama used Ludwig's SSN.”
Summary
Barack Obama’s Social Security number is 042‑68‑4425, which was never assigned to Jean Paul Ludwig. Ludwig’s actual number was 045‑26‑8722, and there is no evidence that Obama used Ludwig’s SSN. The claim that Obama stole Ludwig’s number is unfounded.
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- Did Barack Obama Steal His Social Security Number? | Snopes.com
As can be verified through the ... and the Social Security number assigned to him was not, as claimed, the same as that assigned to Barack Obama (042-68-4425), but rather a completely different number (045-26-8722)...
- Social Security Number s1 - DocsLib
> An intensive investigation has revealed the identity of the man whose > Social Security Number (SSN) is being used by President Obama: > Was Jean Paul Ludwig, who was born in France in 1890, immigrated to > the United States in 1924, and was ...
- Quack, quack if you hate Obama | WORLD - WNG.org
For example: Raise your hand if you’ve received an email saying the president is using the Social Security number of Jean Paul Ludwig, who was born in France in 1890, emigrated to the United States in 1924, and lived mostly in Connecticut, where he received Social Security number 042-68-4425 in 1977.
- Fact Check: Obama's SSN not the same as dead man
Recently, there has been an email circulating on the Internet concerning President Barack Obama's Social Security number. It appears that the number was originally issued to Jean Paul Ludwig, who was born in France and died in Hawaii.
- Obama Social Security Number Was Allegedly Stolen From An Immigrant From The 1880's, No He Is Not An American | Investigations | citynewsvegas.com
Instead, the number appears to have originally been assigned to a man named Jean Paul Ludwig — a French immigrant born in 1890 who came to the United States in 1924 and spent most of his adult life in the state of Connecticut.
- The Mystery of Obama’s Social Security Number - Common Sense Evaluation
One of them is Susan Daniels, a licensed private investigator from Ohio who has been investigating Obama’s Social Security number since 2009. She discovered that the number Obama is using, 042-68-4425, was issued in March 1977, when Obama ...
- Sandy Hook and Obama’s Connecticut Social Security Number - Paperblog
In May 2010, the mystery deepened when it was determined that the SSN Obama is currently using (042-68-4425) has a Connecticut prefix, 042, but Obama had never lived in nor had associations with the state of Connecticut.
- Fact Check: Did Barack Obama use a stolen Social Security number from Jean Paul Ludwig?
Data from the Social Security Administration, including the Social Security Death Index (SSDI), confirms that Jean Paul Ludwig had a different SSN (045-26-8722), not the number falsely attributed to Obama (042-68-4425).
- Fact Check: Obama's SSN not the same as dead man
The email says that the SSA was never informed of Ludwig’s death. And it states that Obama has been illegally using the SSN assigned to Ludwig, 042-68-4425.
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