[bitt]

I wonder if he was born a year earlier, before Hawaii became a state. How would THAT impact his “citizenship”?

He is always shown to be an enormous child in his school pictures, and there are suspiciously few early baby pictures...

[thecodont]

I wonder if he was born a year earlier, before Hawaii became a state. How would THAT impact his “citizenship”?

Good question. How had it impacted 1964 presidential candidate Barry Goldwater's citizenship? Goldwater was born in Arizona Territory on New Year's Day in 1909, three full years before Arizona statehood.