Genealogical relationships of Presidents of the United States

[beijingwalker]

Genealogical relationships of Presidents of the United States

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

• John Adams and John Quincy Adams (father and son)
• William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison (grandfather and grandson)
• George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush (father and son)

Two other pairs of Presidents have shared a surname. Andrew Johnson and Lyndon Johnson have no known relationship. Theodore Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt (née Roosevelt), who was Theodore's niece.

Indirect relatives
This is a list of some of the closer blood relations, other than direct descent, between U.S. Presidents. (See James Madison and Zachary Taylor

• James Madison and James K. Polk (once removed)

• Zachary Taylor and James K. Polk (once removed)

Third cousins

• Martin Van Buren and Theodore Roosevelt (three times removed)
• Martin Van Buren and John Adams and Calvin Coolidge (five times removed)
• James Madison and Barack Obama (nine times removed)

Fourth cousins

• John Tyler and William Henry Harrison (once removed)
• Ulysses Grant and Franklin D. Roosevelt (once removed)
• John Adams and Millard Fillmore (three times removed)
• John Quincy Adams and Franklin D. Roosevelt (three times removed)
• Zachary Taylor and Franklin D. Roosevelt (half-cousins, three times removed)
• George H. W. Bush (three times removed)
• Lyndon Johnson and Barack Obama (three times removed)
• John Quincy Adams and Calvin Coolidge (four times removed)
• Franklin Pierce and Calvin Coolidge (four times removed)
• George W. Bush (four times removed)
• John Adams and Franklin Pierce and Herbert Hoover (five times removed)
• Millard Fillmore and George H. W. Bush (five times removed)
• Millard Fillmore and George W. Bush (six times removed)

Fifth cousins

• Theodore Roosevelt and Millard Fillmore and Grover Cleveland (once removed)
• Rutherford Hayes and Grover Cleveland (once removed)
• John Tyler and Benjamin Harrison (once removed)
• John Quincy Adams and Millard Fillmore (twice removed)
• Millard Fillmore and Ulysses Grant and Calvin Coolidge (three times removed)
• John Quincy Adams and Millard Fillmore and Herbert Hoover (four times removed)
• Franklin Pierce and George H. W. Bush (four times removed)
• Grover Cleveland and Gerald Ford (four times removed)
• Millard Fillmore and Gerald Ford (five times removed)
• Franklin Pierce and George W. Bush (five times removed)

Sixth cousins

• Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter
• Millard Fillmore and Ulysses Grant and Grover Cleveland (once removed)
• Rutherford Hayes and Grover Cleveland and Franklin Pierce and Calvin Coolidge (twice removed)
• Calvin Coolidge and Franklin D. Roosevelt (twice removed)
• Calvin Coolidge and George H. W. Bush (twice removed)
• Gerald Ford (twice removed)
• Ulysses Grant and Gerald Ford (three times removed)
• Rutherford Hayes and Gerald Ford (three times removed)
• Rutherford Hayes and George H. W. Bush (three times removed)
• George H. W. Bush (three times removed)
• Calvin Coolidge and George W. Bush (three times removed)
• George H. W. Bush (three times removed)
• Millard Fillmore and Calvin Coolidge (four times removed)
• Rutherford Hayes and George W. Bush (four times removed)
• George W. Bush (four times removed)
• George W. Bush (four times removed)
• Ulysses Grant and George H. W. Bush (five times removed)
• Ulysses Grant and George W. Bush (six times removed)

Seventh cousins

• Millard Fillmore and Ulysses Grant
• Benjamin Harrison and Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush
• Calvin Coolidge (once removed)
• Millard Fillmore and Franklin D. Roosevelt (once removed)
• Gerald Ford and George W. Bush (once removed)
• Grover Cleveland and George H. W. Bush (twice removed)
• Richard Nixon (twice removed)
• Richard Nixon (twice removed)
• Gerald Ford (twice removed)
• Herbert Hoover (three times removed)
• Gerald Ford (three times removed)
• Grover Cleveland and George W. Bush (three times removed)
• Theodore Roosevelt and George H. W. Bush (three times removed)
• Barack Obama (three times removed)
• Abraham Lincoln and Gerald Ford (four times removed)
• Abraham Lincoln and George H. W. Bush (four times removed)
• Theodore Roosevelt and George W. Bush (four times removed)
• Abraham Lincoln and George W. Bush (five times removed)

Eighth cousins

• Grover Cleveland and Franklin D. Roosevelt (half-cousins)
• Rutherford B. Hayes and Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover (once removed)
• Calvin Coolidge and Richard Nixon (once removed)
• Calvin Coolidge and Gerald Ford (once removed)
• Herbert Hoover and Gerald Ford (once removed)
• Richard Nixon (once removed)
• Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford (twice removed)
• Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama (twice removed)
• Rutherford B. Hayes and Richard Nixon (three times removed)
• William McKinley and Donald Trump (three times removed)

Ninth cousins

• Richard Nixon
• Jimmy Carter
• Benjamin Harrison and Calvin Coolidge (once removed)
• Gerald Ford (once removed)
• Richard Nixon and George H. W. Bush (once removed)
• Richard Nixon and George W. Bush (twice removed)
• James Knox Polk and Donald Trump (five times removed)

Tenth cousins

• Herbert Hoover and George H. W. Bush
• Herbert Hoover and George W. Bush (once removed)
• Gerald Ford and Barack Obama (once removed)
• George H.W. Bush and Barack Obama (once removed)
• George W. Bush and Barack Obama (twice removed)
• James Monroe and Donald Trump (four times removed)

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, if all female ancestors and their descendants are traced. This is why, for example, Richard Nixonwas the father-in-law of 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.

Presidents related to royalty
Presidents related to British royalty

• George Washington (descendant of Edward III of England)
• Thomas Jefferson (descendant of Edward III of England)
• James Madison (descendant of Edward I of England)
• James Monroe (descendant of Edward III of England)
• John Quincy Adams (descendant of Edward III of England)
• William Henry Harrison and his grandson, Benjamin Harrison (descendants of Edward I of England)
• Zachary Taylor (descendant of Edward I of England)
• Franklin Pierce (descendant of Henry I of England)
• Rutherford Hayes (descendant of William I of Scotland)
• Grover Cleveland (descendant of Edward I of England)
• Theodore Roosevelt (descendant of James I of Scotland and Edward III of England)
• Edward III of England)
• Henry II of England)
• Calvin Coolidge (descendant of Edward I of England)
• Herbert Hoover (descendant of Edward III of England)
• James II of Scotland)
• Harry S. Truman (descendant of Robert III of Scotland)
• Richard Nixon (descendant of Henry II of England)
• Gerald Ford (descendant of Edward I of England)
• Jimmy Carter (descendant of Henry II of England)
• George H.W. Bush and his son, George W. Bush (descendants of Edward I of England and Robert II of Scotland)
• Barack Obama (descendant of Edward I of England and William the Lion of Scotland)
• Donald Trump (descendant of Edward III of England)

As a result, all of the listed people are direct descendants of Alfred the Great. All but one of them are also descended from William the Conqueror with the exception of Rutherford Hayes. Most of these royal ancestors were born before the Black Death killed much of the population of Britain in 1349.

In addition, according to Genealogics and Roglo, HM Queen Elizabeth II is among the closest living relatives of George Washington, through their descent from Augustus Warner, Burgess of Virginia.

Presidents related to other royalty

• Theodore Roosevelt and Rajahs of Sarawak
• John F. Kennedy was descended from Dunchaun, who was the brother of the Great High King of Ireland Brian Boru.

https://familypedia.wikia.org/wiki/Genealogical_relationships_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States

 

[beijingwalker]

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[Indus Pakistan]

Interesting that the vast majority are of of British extraction, followed by Irish, Dutch and Germans etc. Clearly the British provide the stratum that underpins American ruling elite. Obama is the exception for having part non European inheritence.

And it does not take genetics to see that. The British connection can be seen in the surnames. Here in UK my town is full of Fords, Wilsons, Bushs, Washingtons, Carters, Clevelands, Hayes, Adams, Harrisons etc

 

[Yankee-stani]

Interesting that the vast majority are of of British extraction, followed by Irish, Dutch and Germans etc. Clearly the British provide the stratum that underpins American ruling elite. Obama is the exception for having part non European inheritence.

And it does not take genetics to see that. The British connection can be seen in the surnames. Here in UK my town is full of Fords, Wilsons, Bushs, Washingtons, Carters, Clevelands, Hayes, Adams, Harrisons etc

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[Hamartia Antidote]

Interesting that the vast majority are of of British extraction, followed by Irish, Dutch and Germans etc. Clearly the British provide the stratum that underpins American ruling elite. Obama is the exception for having part non European inheritence.

And it does not take genetics to see that. The British connection can be seen in the surnames. Here in UK my town is full of Fords, Wilsons, Bushs, Washingtons, Carters, Clevelands, Hayes, Adams, Harrisons etc

It’s not surprising since the US was a colony of Britain for 150 years and most of of the people who came here to colonize in those 150 years were British. So after 1789 if somebody off a boat didn’t marry another person off the boat they likely were marrying one of the millions of people with British ancestry who were here before the war.

Considering the Black Death wiped out a good portion on the British population it isn’t surprising the British people are related to each other.