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Hungarian-American refers to American citizens of Hungarian descent. Some notable examples include Zsa Zsa Gabor, Joseph Pulitzer, and Thomas Szasz. Many Hungarians fled to the United States after the Soviet invasion in 1956.
History Hungarians have been a part of America for as long as Europeans have settled the New World, with Hungarian-Americans such as Michael de Kovats, the founder of the United States Cavalry, active in the American Revolution. Hungarians have maintained a constant state of immigration to the United States since then, however are best known for three principle waves of immigration. The first wave occurred in 1849-1850 by the so-called "Forty-niners," who emigrated to escape retribution by Austrian authorities after the defeat of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. By the turn of the century, the United States saw an immigration boom primarily of Southern and Eastern Europeans. Included in this wave was between 650,000-700,000 ethnic Hungarians. Unlike the educated gentry who formed the core of the 1849 wave, the second wave was mostly poor and uneducated immigrants seeking a better life in America. The circumstances of the third wave of immigration had much in common with the first wave. In 1956 Hungary was again under the power of a foreign state, this time the Soviet Union, and again Hungarians rose up in revolution. Like the revolution of 1848, the 1956 Hungarian Revolution failed and led to the emigration of 200,000 "56-ers" fleeing persecution after the revolution. 40,000 of them found their way to the United States. Demographics
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