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A majority of presidents trace their ancestries to the American colonists, in which they are known as Old Stock Americans. Some nativist political groups within the United States were adamantly opposed to identifying with a foreign nation and would coin those who did as hyphenated Americans .
By the late 19th century, the Hyde Park Roosevelts were generally associated with the Democratic Party and the Oyster Bay Roosevelts with the Republicans. President Theodore Roosevelt, an Oyster Bay Roosevelt, was the uncle of Eleanor Roosevelt, later wife of Franklin Roosevelt. Despite political differences that caused family members to ...
President Biden's great-grandfather, Edward Francis Blewitt, Pennsylvania state senator (1907–10). Two other presidents were related by blood: James Madison and Zachary Taylor were second cousins. Other presidents were related by marriage: George Washington's nephew, George Steptoe Washington, was Madison's brother-in-law.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, fifth cousin to Theodore Roosevelt, led America out of the Great Depression and through World War II. ... The richest presidents in history were some of the world’s ...
All three cousins have consistently refused to speak to the media. Speaking to the BBC in 2017 after Donald Trump's first presidential victory, John A MacIver, a local councillor and friend of the ...
Benjamin Lincoln (1733–1810) was a Continental Army general during the American Revolutionary War, though he is not known to have direct familial links to president Lincoln. His English ancestors were some who first settled in Hingham, beginning with Thomas Lincoln 'the cooper', who was among several Lincolns that settled in Hingham when it ...
President U.S. Grant, a cousin, demanded his resignation. He returned to Ohio as a farmer and lawyer; later a town in California was named for him. Warren Delano Jr. (1809–1898), a grandfather of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Chief of Operations of Russell & Company, whose business included the opium trade in Canton.
Other families are or have been politically involved in multiple states. The Bush family includes two presidents (one a former Vice President, the other a former governor of Texas), a senator from Connecticut, and a governor of Florida. The Kennedy family included a president, an attorney general, and a senator from Massachusetts in