Wednesday 28 December 2011

Born to rule!

Franklin Roosevelt was related to eleven other presidents

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Genealogists have found that Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the former president of the United States of America was related to eleven other former presidents of his country. The Democrat Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the USA who ruled the country from 1933 to 1945. 

FDR as the "New Deal" guy was fondly called by the Americans was related to former presidents: George Washington (1st President), John Adams (2nd President), James Madison (4th President), John Quincy Adams (6th President), Martin Van Buren (8th President), William Henry Harrison (9th President), Zachary Taylor (12th President), Ulysses Simpson Grant (18th President), Benjamin Harrison (23rd President), Theodore Roosevelt (26th President) and William Howard Taft (27th President).

FDR was a fifth cousin of Theodore Roosevelt and fourth cousin of Grant and Taylor besides being a distant cousin to the other eight presidents mentioned above. Roosevelt even had some British connection for he was a seventh cousin of the popular British Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill! Quite strange, isn't it?

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