How many presidents were related?

Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
Hallmarks of Harrison's administration included unprecedented economic legislation, including the McKinley Tariff, which imposed historic protective trade rates, and the Sherman Antitrust Act. Harrison also facilitated the creation of the national forest reserves through an amendment to the Land Revision Act of 1891.
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(the 23rd president) was the grandson of William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was an American military officer and politician who served as the 9th president of the United States. Harrison died just 31 days after his inauguration in 1841, and had the shortest presidency in U.S. history.
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(the 9th president). James Madison (the 4th president) and Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 – July 9, 1850) was an American military leader who served as the 12th president of the United States from 1849 until his death in 1850.
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(the 12th president) were second cousins. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (the 32nd president) was a fifth cousin of Theodore Roosevelt (the 26th president).
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Are all 45 presidents related to each other?

The remarkable discovery was made by 12-year-old BridgeAnne d'Avignon, of Salinas, California, who created a ground-breaking family tree that connected 42 of 43 U.S. presidents to one common, and rather unexpected, ancestor: King John of England.
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Who was related to 11 other presidents?

FDR is related to 11 presidents

Next comes Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president, who was related to 11 — yes ELEVEN — other presidents. Five of them through blood and the remaining six by marriage. This was determined by a study done by multiple genealogists.
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Are the bushes the only father son presidents?

John Quincy Adams was the sixth president of the United States and the first son of a former president who himself became president. (George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush are the only other father-son presidents.)
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Is it true all presidents related?

With the exception of John F. Kennedy, Martin Van Buren, and perhaps Dwight D. Eisenhower, every president has ancestors from Great Britain. Kennedy was of pure Irish descent, Van Buren was of Dutch lineage; and Eisenhower was of German and Swiss heritage.
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Are all the US Presidents related?



Why we are all related?

According to calculations by geneticist Graham Coop of the University of California, Davis, you carry genes from fewer than half of your forebears from 11 generations back. Still, all the genes present in today's human population can be traced to the people alive at the genetic isopoint.
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What president is not related to the rest?

Two other pairs of Presidents have shared a surname. Andrew Johnson and Lyndon Johnson have no known relationship. Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt were fifth cousins, though they were more closely related through Franklin's wife Eleanor Roosevelt (née Roosevelt), who was Theodore's niece.
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Which President killed a man in a duel?

On May 30, 1806, future President Andrew Jackson kills a man who accused him of cheating on a horse race bet and then insulted his wife, Rachel.
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What President had a son who also became President?

How unusual is it for a father and son to become President of the United States? It has now happened twice in our nation's history: the Adamses (John Adams (1797-1801) and John Quincy Adams (1825-1829) and the Bushes (George H.W. Bush (1989-1993) and George W. Bush (2001-2009).
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Which President was called the accidental President?

TRUMAN: THE "HARRY S. TRUMAN: THE ACCIDENTAL , PRESIDENT. ESPECIALLY IN COMPARISON TO HIS PREDECESSOR, FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT.
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Were Teddy and Franklin related?

Two distantly related branches of the family from Oyster Bay and Hyde Park, New York, rose to national political prominence with the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909) and his fifth cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945), whose wife, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, was Theodore's niece. Pres.
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Which president was never married?

In his personal life, Buchanan never married, the only U.S. president to remain a lifelong bachelor, leading some to question his sexual orientation. Buchanan died of respiratory failure in 1868, and was buried in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he had lived for nearly 60 years.
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Who was the shortest president in history?

The tallest U.S. president was Abraham Lincoln at 6 feet 4 inches (193 centimeters), while the shortest was James Madison at 5 feet 4 inches (163 centimeters).
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Which president turned down an offer in the NFL?

Ford graduated from Michigan in 1935 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics. He turned down offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers of the National Football League.
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Which last name is shared by multiple presidents that are not related?

The only presidents to share a surname and not be related are Andrew Johnson and Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Who is 4th in line for president?

If the President were to resign or die, the Secretary of State is fourth in line of succession after the Vice President, the Speaker of the House, and the President pro tempore of the Senate. There have been 71 Secretaries of State in the nation's history.
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Has anyone ever won an election by 1 vote?

In 1800 – Thomas Jefferson was elected President by one vote in the House of Representatives after a tie in the Electoral College.
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Who is the oldest living child of a president?

Currently there are 33 confirmed, known living presidential children, the oldest Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, the youngest Barron Trump.
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Who was the only president born in Hawaii?

Synonyms, crossword answers and other related words for US PRESIDENT BORN IN HAWAII [obama]
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Which president never lived in the White House?

Although President Washington oversaw the construction of the house, he never lived in it. It was not until 1800, when the White House was nearly completed, that its first residents, President John Adams and his wife, Abigail, moved in. Since that time, each President has made his own changes and additions.
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Who was the youngest president?

The youngest person to assume the presidency was Theodore Roosevelt, who, at the age of 42, succeeded to the office after the assassination of William McKinley. The youngest to become president by election was John F. Kennedy, who was inaugurated at age 43.
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Has a president ever killed anyone?

Theodore Roosevelt: Not only was Teddy Roosevelt awarded the Medal of Honor for his display of courage at the Battle of San Juan Hill, in which he led an attack on an enemy position with only a few men. In this particular battle, Roosevelt was first to reach the enemy position and killed the first man with his pistol.
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Which president put U.S. in debt?

George W.

President Bush added $5.85 trillion to the national debt, a 101% increase from the $5.8 trillion debt at the end of Clinton's last budget for fiscal year 2001.
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What president was 300lbs?

President Taft was a huge man, weighing more than 300 pounds. A special bathtub was installed for him in the White House, big enough to hold four men. Fast Fact: William Howard Taft: the only man to become President and then chief justice.
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Who was the first father son president?

The first President who was the son of a President, John Quincy Adams in many respects paralleled the career as well as the temperament and viewpoints of his illustrious father.
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