Genealogical relationships of Presidents of the United States

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Many genealogical relationships may be found among Presidents of the United States and between the presidents and other significant figures of history.

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[edit] Direct descent

The United States Presidents who are related to each other by direct descent are:

Two other pairs of Presidents have shared a surname. Andrew Johnson and Lyndon B. 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.

[edit] Indirect relatives

This is a list of some of the closer blood relations, other than direct descent, between U.S. Presidents. (See Cousin chart to understand the terms used here.)

[edit] Third cousins

[edit] Fourth cousins

[edit] Fifth cousins

[edit] Sixth cousins

[edit] Seventh cousins

[edit] Eighth cousins

[edit] Ninth cousins

[edit] Tenth cousins

[edit] Other relationships

The list above includes the closer, more significant relationships. Family trees, particularly those in a limited geographic area, tend to converge relatively rapidly and many family trees going back ten generations or more will connect to more than one dozen U.S. Presidents,[citation needed] if all female ancestors and their descendants are traced. This is why, for example, it is not mentioned that through Robert Wyngate of Sharpenhoe, Bedfordshire, J.Q. Adams and W.H. Harrison are eighth cousins.

There are also numerous relationships by marriage which are not presented in this article. For example, Richard Nixon was the father-in-law of Dwight Eisenhower's grandson. George Washington's half aunt married James Madison's half great-uncle. Woodrow Wilson married (as his second wife) the great-great-great-niece of Thomas Jefferson.

[edit] Presidents related to royalty

[edit] Presidents related to British royalty

As a result, all of the listed people are direct descendants of Alfred the Great and William the Conqueror.

HM Queen Elizabeth II is among the closest living relatives of George Washington, through their descent from Augustine Warner, Jr., Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses. His daughter Mildred was the grandmother of Washington, while his daughter Mary is an ancestor of the Queen's mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.[1]

[edit] Presidents related to Irish royalty

[edit] Presidents related to other royalty

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Albert H. Spencer, Genealogy of the Spencer family (1956), p. v (snippet)

[edit] Further reading


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