(The British royal family changed their names from Battenburg to Mountbatten during WWI)
ok .. but what does that have to do with Frank Lautenberg ??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lautenberg
Frank Raleigh Lautenberg (born January 23, 1924) is an American politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party and is a United States Senator from New Jersey serving from 1983 to 2001 and again since 2003.
The son of poor Jewish immigrants (from Poland and Russia), Lautenberg was born in Paterson, New Jersey
The Royal family changed their name to House of Windsor in the first world war. The Battenburg-Mountbatten family was a cousin family of the Windsors.