# All hail King Spot!  Long live King Bushrod!

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**Created:** [October 8, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-king-spot-long-live-king-bushrod/467044 "2008-10-08T19:47:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-king-spot-long-live-king-bushrod/467044/1 "2008-10-08T19:47:51Z")

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This interesting article on the Newsweek web site [America's 'Lost Monarchy': The Man Who Would Be King](http://www.newsweek.com/id/162914) had a historian trace down the ancestors of George Washington.

It has been said that George Washington was offered to become King, and if he did, they checked who would be his most likely heir that is alive today.

The answer is Paul Washington, a regional manager of a building supply company in Texas.

But the part of the article I think it coolest is when she looks at who would have been our previous Kings and says, “We would have had a King named Spot, how cool is that?” Smolenyak muses of the son who would’ve fallen between King Bushrod, the first, and Bushrod II