Look Who’s Related: George Washington and all the Presidents

WaySide

12 years ago

The biggest strength of the world family tree is the ability to find out how everyone’s related. Last week, I showed you how Vice President Joe Biden is related to President John Adams. Today, I want to show you how George Washington, the first US President, is related to every other US President.

John Adams

John Adams is George Washington’s 10th cousin once removed

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson is George Washington’s 8th cousin thrice removed

James Madison

James Madison is George Washington’s wife’s sister’s 2nd husband

James Monroe

James Monroe is George Washington’s 12th cousin once removed

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams is George Washington’s 10th cousin twice removed

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson is George Washington’s 12th cousin

Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren is George Washington’s 17th cousin thrice removed

William Henry Harrison

William Henry Harrison is George Washington’s half sister-in-law’s husband’s nephew

John Tyler

John Tyler is George Washington’s 11th cousin once removed

James K. Polk

James K. Polk is George Washington’s 11th cousin 6 times removed

Zachary Taylor

Zachary S. Taylor is George Washington’s third cousin once removed

Millard Filmore

Millard Filmore is George Washington’s 11th cousin twice removed

Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce is George Washington’s 9th cousin once removed

James Buchanan

James Buchanan is George Washington’s 11th cousin

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln is George Washington’s 10th cousin four times removed

Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson is George Washington’s 9th cousin four times removed

Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant is George Washington’s 10th cousin thrice removed

Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes is George Washington’s 10th cousin once removed

James Garfield

James A. Garfield is George Washington’s 7th cousin thrice removed

Chester A. Arthur

Chester A. Arthur is George Washington’s 10th cousin once removed

Grover Cleveland

Grover Cleveland is George Washington’s third cousin four times removed

Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison is George Washington’s fifth cousin thrice removed

William McKinley

William McKinley is George Washington’s 9th cousin four times removed

Teddy Roosevelt

Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt is George Washington’s 6th cousin four times removed

William Howard Taft

William H. Taft is George Washington’s third great grandfather’s wife’s 7th great granddaughter’s husband

T. Woodrow Wilson

T. Woodrow Wilson is George Washington’s 11th cousin five times removed

Warren G. Harding

Warren G. Harding is George Washington’s 9th cousin five times removed

Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge is George Washington’s 9th cousin twice removed

Herbert Hoover

Herbert C. Hoover is George Washington’s 9th cousin four times removed

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt is George Washington’s third cousin 9 times removed

Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman is George Washington’s 11th cousin five times removed

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower is George Washington’s 10th cousin five times removed

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy is George Washington’s 11th cousin thrice removed

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson is George Washington’s 8th cousin 6 times removed

Richard M. Nixon

Richard M. Nixon is George Washington’s 8th cousin five times removed

Gerald Ford

Gerald Ford is the only US President not yet connected to the big tree. If you’re an expert on the Ford family, feel free to get him connected.

Jimmy Carter

James E. Carter is George Washington’s 9th cousin 6 times removed

Ronald Reagan

Ronald W. Reagan is George Washington’s 8th cousin thrice removed

George H. W. Bush

George Herbert Walker Bush is George Washington’s fourth cousin 9 times removed

Bill Clinton

William J. Clinton is George Washington’s third cousin 6 times removed’s husband

George W. Bush

George W. Bush is George Washington’s fourth cousin 10 times removed

Barack Obama

Barack H. Obama is George Washington’s 9th cousin 6 times removed

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