# Related Presidents

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-presidents/270645>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 22, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-presidents/270645 "2004-10-22T18:51:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-presidents/270645/21 "2004-10-23T06:42:56Z")

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> [@This Year's Model](#):
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> William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison were grandfather and grandson.

Ah, its a 1920’s style Harrison.

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-presidents/270645/22 "2004-10-23T07:01:11Z")

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While Gore Vidal is not a president (though he did run for Congress a few times), he was a stepbrother-in-law (sort of) to JFK and is a distant cousin of Al Gore. (Vidal’s grandfather, Thomas Pryor Gore, was a longtime senator from OK [most famous in his own time for his blindness]).

\*Complicated relationship: Vidal’s mother, Nina Gore, divorced his father and married multimillionaire Hugh Auchincloss with whom she had two children. Later the couple divorced and Auchincloss married Janet Lee, who brought with her two children from her first marriage, Jackie & Lee Bouvier. Vidal’s half-siblings were the stepsiblings of Jackie Kennedy which sorta kinda makes them steprelatives.

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-presidents/270645/23 "2004-10-23T07:39:30Z")

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Wow. This shit is pretty bizarre. I wish the people who did **GorillaMan** ’s page had been more thorough and explained who FDR was related to in which way.

> [@JerH](#):
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> There was a minor news story last week stating that Bush and Kerry are something like 9th cousins; I vaguely remember similar stories in previous elections.

Ninth cousins twice removed.

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**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-presidents/270645/24 "2004-10-23T14:34:01Z")

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> [@Enola Straight](#):
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> Ah, its a 1920’s style Harrison.

No, it’s a 1920s style **Coolidge**! 😛

FDR was TR’s fifth cousin through their paternal ancestries, but was also TR’s nephew by marriage, Eleanor having been the daughter of TR’s deceased brother.

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