Some of the letters former US President Barack Obama wrote to his college girlfriend, Alexandra McNear have been made public.
The Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library released the nine letters which were written in the 1980s, to researchers.
It seems that Tucker Carlson is a 3rd or 4th cousin of Alexandra McNear. His full name is Tucker McNear Carlson, born in San Francisco. His mother’s great grandparents were Etta Tucker and George Washington McNear.
G.W. McNear’s uncle was John Augustus McNear.
http://www.onlinebiographies.info/ca/sono/mcnear-ja.htm
This is Alexandra’s father:
SAN FRANCISCO — Robert Erskine McNear, a fifth-generation Californian who won awards as a mystery writer, died of kidney failure last week at the age of 55.
McNear, who died in his home last Friday, was a descendant of John McNear, a pioneer Californian who founded the communities of Petaluma and Port Costa.