Was there ever a president of the united states related to more than 1 other president?
Upvote:6
Obviously at some level it's a degenerate question, because ultimately every human on earth is related.
So given that we are really good at genealogy these days, it probably shouldn't be surprising that there are oodles of them that we know of.
Looking over the link provided by Lars in the comments, it looks like the closest related triple were Madison, Polk, and Taylor who were second cousins (once removed in the case of Taylor and Polk).
Even Obama has known relation to three other presidents. James Madison was his third cousin9, LBJ his fourth3, and Carter his eighth2.
Going past that, frankly It would be much easier easier to list those who don't have two known relations. Those are (listed in order with presidency number):
- 1 Washington
- 3 Jefferson
- 5 Monroe*
- 7 Jackson
- 13 Filmore
- 15 Buchanan
- 17 A. Johnson
- 21 Arthur
- 28 Wilson
- 34 Eisenhower
- 35 Kennedy
- 36 LBJ*
- 40 Reagan
- 42 Clinton
You might notice that the pace slows down towards the end. That makes a certain amount of sense, as the genealogical fan-in increases as you move down generations.
Still, that's only 14 of the 45 Presidents.
* - Related to one other POTUS, but not two
Numeric Superscripts designate level of removal
More post
- 📝 Did Richard II of England willingly abdicate the throne to Henry of Bolingbroke?
- 📝 How would one have gone about setting up a business during Communist Revolutionary China?
- 📝 What was Babur's attitude upon watching heads of his enemies stacked up forming a tower?
- 📝 What degree of relations did the different Hawaiian islands have between themselves before Kamehameha's unification?
- 📝 What do I ask myself/ teach my child to ask herself when looking for translations/adaptations of historical/epic works for her?
- 📝 Why is the leap day on February 29th?
- 📝 Whig party identification in the House of Lords
- 📝 Did officers use cases / bags / pouches in the 18th century?
- 📝 The link between Kaiser Wilhelm I. and the city of Bonn
- 📝 What explanations have been given as to why the Jews were not killed in Italy?
- 📝 Were there any long-term benefits from sending Lenin back to Russia
- 📝 Have there ever been any instances of complete (or almost) world peace?
- 📝 Did people attempt to repair their television sets themselves back in the day and die from it?
- 📝 How widespread was dueling in the United States from its formation to 1860?
- 📝 Why did Shirer omit information from The Rise & Fall of the Third Reich?
- 📝 At the Battle of Zama, was the Roman army more "native" than the Carthaginian?
- 📝 Why did Lord Mountbatten shrink the timeline for the withdrawal of British troops from India?
- 📝 What was happening to bank deposits during WW2?
- 📝 Rulers of Rome - Caesar and Pompei
- 📝 Apart from the White Ship in 1120, have there been any other maritime disasters in which an heir to a throne and/or many notable people died?
- 📝 When did spotlights begin to be used at lectures?
- 📝 What mistake did abbot [Jacques?] Delille make when eating an egg at the Court of Louis XVI?
- 📝 Columbus 1492 - how many years for news to reach all Europe (including Ottoman empire)?
- 📝 Why have wheat and rice been consumed in different forms?
- 📝 What kind of ink was used by medieval scribes in Iceland, given that there were no plant galls for iron-gall ink?
- 📝 Can anyone identify this (circa 1841) uniform?
- 📝 Did people from the cities of Uruk, Ur and Sumer have knowledge/recollection of how old their cities were (say, recollection after 2000 BCE)?
- 📝 What was done to prevent electoral fraud in Texas following the controversial 1948 election?
- 📝 Did Peter the Great support a Russian circumnavigation?
- 📝 Before the discovery of India, was it self sufficient in all areas?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Was there ever a president of the united states related to more than 1 other president?
- 📝 Why was immigration from France to the United States lower than from some other countries?
- 📝 Is there any evidence to support the claim that the United States was "suckered into WW1" by Zionists, made by Benjamin Freedman in his 1961 speech?
- 📝 Has there ever been a cold war other than between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.?
- 📝 Is it true that there are more slaves in the world now than ever at one point in history?
- 📝 Since the inception of the United States, has the term "America" ever referred to something more than simply "the United States"?
- 📝 Was there any genuine debate in the pre-1860 United States regarding Native American sovereignty?
- 📝 Did the United States ever impose any trade embargoes on the basis of health related concerns?
- 📝 What factors contributed to the United States having a larger proportion of Jews than other British colonies?
- 📝 Has the United States paid US dollars as reparations to children other than a "child" of Japanese American internees during World War II?
- 📝 Was there any other Germanic person who gained an important position in The Byzantine Empire other than Emperor Tiberios III Apsimar?
- 📝 Who was the real first president of the United states of america?
- 📝 Has the United States ever had a non-Christian President?
- 📝 Was there ever a treaty between 2 entities with significantly different translations to the detriment of one party?
- 📝 When was Silver ever more valuable than Gold?
- 📝 How was the United States able to produce excellent tanks in 1942?
- 📝 How did gold come to symbolize lower ranks than silver in the United States Air Force?
- 📝 Was slavery in the United States legally limited to blacks?
- 📝 Why was sugar cultivation more profitable in the Caribbean/Brazil than West Africa?
- 📝 Has there ever been an archbishop or bishop younger than the 16-year-old James of Nicosia?
- 📝 Was the concept of religious freedom in the early United States applied to native American faiths?
- 📝 Has the United States ever been formally condemned by the United Nations?
- 📝 Was there ever any doubt which side the USA would join?
- 📝 During feudalism in Europe, was one's allegiance to the lord more or less important than the allegiance to the king?
- 📝 In the United States government, has there been cases that electoral colleges don't vote for the candidate the majority of their state voted for?
- 📝 Other than Mr. Putin, has there been occassion of an ex-secret agent becoming the primary executive power holder?
- 📝 Did more Jews live in Poland than any other country, prior to the Holocaust, because of how Polish laws and people regarded Jews?
- 📝 At the Battle of Zama, was the Roman army more "native" than the Carthaginian?
- 📝 Did the Tlingits benefit from resisting the Russians more than other Alaskan tribes?
- 📝 When was the concept of the "border wall" between the United States and Mexico first proposed?
