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Have you ever looked at the past of some of these politicans? The Bush family, Kennedy, Clinton, Gore? Even Barrack Hussein Obama is related to a fomer AMERICAN president on his mom's mom side ( the racist grandma).

George W. Bush
Current President George W. Bush is related to other presidents as well as Pierce, to whom he is also related on his father's side via Daniel Brewer. He is also a cousin of Fillmore (via Millards), Lincoln (via Gilmans), Grant (via Lathrops). Hayes (via Smiths, Footes, Parmelees, and Huckinses), Garfield (via Wheelers, Carpenters, Cookes, Warrens, Holbrooks, and Arnolds), Cleveland (via Smiths and Stanleys), Theodore Roosevelt (via Schuylers), Taft (via Holbrooks, Thayers, Haywards, Cookes, Footes, Ravenses, Waterses, and Shermans), Coolidge (via Phillipses, Hortons, Garnseys, Pulsiphers, Ravenses, Richardsons, Moores, Bulkeleys, and Morses), Hoover (via Brookses, Reades, Wheelers, Richardsons, and Shermans), Franklin Roosevelt (via Beekmans, Hutchinsons, Popes, Jenneys, Richardses, Palgraves, Lathrops, and Howlands), Nixon (via Lippincotts, Footes, Traverses, Morses, and Howlands), and Ford (via Vanderburghs, Wheelers, Marvins, Gilmans, and Howlands).

Is that 14 presidents not including daddy? It doesn't even include George Washington and possibly others. How many average americans are related to at least 20% of our presidents, both liberal and conservative?

- Current President George W. Bush is related to Winston Churchill three ways: through the Coes of NY, the Sumners of Mass., and the Shermans of RI (linking them to the Baldwin, Hoar & Sherman family).

- Current President Bush is also descended from Mayflower passengers John Howland, John Tilley, Henry Samson, and probably Francis Cooke.

Other relatives
- Philip Sherman - ancestor of Flora Sheldon, wife of Samuel P. Bush. One of the founders of Rhode Island.
- Charlemagne - President Bush is descended from Charlemagne eight, possibly nine, times. Two of his "gateway" ancestors were Anne Hutchinson and Robert Livingston the Elder
- The Bushs are descendants of this Norman, a descendant of Vikings who settled in Normandy, who led the Anglo-Norman conquest of Ireland in the 12th Century. Strongbow was not Celtic, being a French-speaking Norman.
- Rev. John Lathrop - ancestor of Samuel P. Bush via his mother Harriet Fay. This same line makes the Bushes cousins to President Ulysses S. Grant as well as Benedict Arnold, among many, many others.
Anne Hutchinson (1591–1643), a Massachusetts religious dissident, was an 11th–generation ancestor of Samuel P. Bush through his mother Harriet Fay.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-spencped_4-0>[5]</SUP> The same family line makes the Bushes distant cousins of Presidents George Washington, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge.

George W. Bush and his opponent in the 2004 U.S. Presidential election John Kerry share a common ancestor in Edmund Reade (1563-1623) and his wife Elizabeth Cooke. Bush and Kerry are 9th cousins, twice removed.

They were also in the same skull and crossbones fraternity at Yale.
 

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Interesting piece on John Kerry too. I didn't know he was of Jewish decent.

It was discovered in 2003 by genealogist Felix Gundacker,[5] working with The Boston Globe, that Kerry's paternal grandparents, who had been born "Fritz Kohn" in what is now the Czech Republic and "Ida Lowë" in Budapest, changed their names to "Frederick and Ida Kerry" in 1900 and converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism in 1901[6][7] or 1902.[8] Fritz' older brother Otto had earlier, in 1887[7] or 1896,[5] also changed his name to "Kerry" and converted from Judaism, presumably to escape violent antisemitism. The "Kerry" name, widely misinterpreted as indicative of Irish heritage, was reputedly selected arbitrarily: "According to family legend, Fritz and another family member opened an atlas at random and dropped a pencil on a map. It fell on County Kerry in Ireland, and thus a name was chosen."[6][8] Leaving the suburb of Vienna where they had lived since 1896, Fred and Ida, together with their son Eric, immigrated to the United States in 1905, living at first in Chicago and eventually moving to Brookline, Massachusetts by 1915.
 

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Obama is related to get this... Dick Cheney and Harry Truman as well. Not to mention his african side of the family and their political ties.
 

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These families aren't just "conservative, or Liberal", they are both, every, all of the above. You might get an FDR in one generation, or a Hoover in another.
 

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Al Gore's dad who was a representative also worked for an oil company.
 

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George Bush was also related to people strongly in favore of the creation of a Jewish state.
 

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Obama related to Dick Cheney cracks me up. Maybe they could go on hunting trips together?
 

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