How are all the U.S. presidents Related?

All presidents bar one are directly descended from a medieval English king. What do Barack Obama, Thomas Jefferson, George W. Bush and the other past U.S. presidents have in common? Besides holding the coveted title of commander-in-chief, it appears that all of them but one are cousins.

How many presidents are related to each other?

Genealogists have determined that FDR was distantly related to a total of 11 U.S. presidents, 5 by blood and 6 by marriage: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Ulysses Grant, William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, James Madison, Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, Zachary Taylor, Martin Van Buren, and George Washington.

Which two presidents were related to each other and how?

John Quincy Adams (the 6th president) was the son of John Adams (the 2nd president). Benjamin Harrison (the 23rd president) was the grandson of William Henry Harrison (the 9th president). James Madison (the 4th president) and Zachary Taylor (the 12th president) were second cousins.

Who are most of the presidents related to?

The 12-year-old from Salinas discovered that all the presidents except Martin Van Buren are related to King John of England, who was depicted as the villian in the Robin Hood tales. King John also signed the Magna Carta in 1215, which helped form the British Parliament. Van Buren’s descendants are Dutch.

Which president had the most pets?

Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt began his presidency with more pets than any previous president.

How many US presidents have British ancestry?

The press, led by the Daily Mail and the New York Daily News, recently hailed the ‘remarkable discovery’ made by 12 year-old Californian genealogist BridgeAnne d’Avignon that 42 out of 43 US presidents have King John of England as a common ancestor.

Is FDR related to Teddy?

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 fourth cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945), whose wife, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, was Theodore’s niece.

How were Eleanor and Franklin related?

Roosevelt was a member of the prominent American Roosevelt and Livingston families and a niece of President Theodore Roosevelt. Returning to the U.S., she married her fifth cousin once removed, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1905.