ANCESTRY.COM Reveals Mitt Romney’s Presidential Genes: 2012 GOP Hopeful Is Related to Six Presidents

ancestry.com ^ | December 20, 2011 | ancestry.com

[Brown Deer]

Leading Family History Site also Links GOP Candidates Huntsman and Perry to Former Presidents and American Legends

PROVO, UTAH (December 20, 2011) - As Americans prepare to cast their votes in the 2012 Republican Presidential primaries and caucuses starting January 3 in Iowa, Ancestry.com today announced that several key Republican presidential contenders have historic political leaders in their genes – suggesting that the upcoming primaries are really one grand ol’ family party.

The world’s largest online family history resource has discovered that Mitt Romney leads the pack in presidential lineage with six former Commanders–in-Chief in his family history.  The former Massachusetts governor's family tree includes relations to Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Coolidge, Pierce, Hoover and both President George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.

• Romney is connected to Presidents George W. Bush (10^th cousins, twice removed), George H. W. Bush (10^th cousins, once removed) and Franklin D. Roosevelt (8^th cousins, twice removed) through Ann Marbury Hutchinson, a key figure in the development of religious freedom in America and early settler of Rhode Island and New York.
• Romney is related to Presidents Calvin Coolidge (10^th cousins), Herbert Hoover (10^th cousins) and Franklin Pierce (6^th cousins, 4 times removed) through Thomas Richardson, an English landowner in the late 1500s from Hertfordshire.

Not far behind in presidential pedigree is former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, whose family tree boasts four former heads of state: Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Coolidge and both Presidents Bush.  

• Huntsman is related to Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt (8^th cousins, 3 times removed), George H.W. Bush (11^th cousins) and George W. Bush (11^th cousins, once removed) through Ann Marbury Hutchinson. 
• Huntsman and President Calvin Coolidge are 7^th cousins, 3 times removed, through William Goddard, who brought his family toMassachusetts colony in 1665, escaping London’s plague and searching for better opportunities. Goddard appears to have had a slight political slant himself – serving in the town government of Watertown, Mass.

The buck stops with Texas Governor Rick Perry, who can claim President Harry Truman and legendary Texas Governor Sam Houston in his tree.

• Fifth cousins, 4 times removed, Perry and Truman are related through Thomas Shipp, who was born in Virginia in the early 1700s, the son and grandson of early Virginia settlers.
• Governor Perry's home state pride is in his blood as Ancestry.com discovered he is first cousins, six times removed, from Sam Houston, former President of the Republic of Texas, Texas Governor and State Senator. Perry and Houston are connected through John Paxton, a Revolutionary War patriot. Although Houston resigned as Governor rather than swear allegiance to the Confederacy, Governor Perry has many other ancestors who fought on the side of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

“We find in these politicians’ family trees links to the foundations of the country – early settlers seeking freedom and opportunities, Revolutionary War patriots, and even American legends,” said Anastasia Harman, Lead Family Historian for Ancestry.com. “Time and again American politicians have family ties to our country’s founders and past leaders. It seems the traits that forged past leaders have been handed down through generations to our current and hopeful leaders.”  

[Brown Deer]

Mitt Romney leads the pack in presidential lineage with six former Commanders–in-Chief in his family history.

No he doesn't, and he certainly has more than six!

Not far behind in presidential pedigree is former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, whose family tree boasts four former heads of state: Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Coolidge and both Presidents Bush.

Only four former heads of state? Not far behind? Huntsman is related to ALL 44 U.S. Presidents! How can he be behind any of the other candidates?

Huntsman is related to Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt (8th cousins, 3 times removed), George H.W. Bush (11th cousins) and George W. Bush (11th cousins, once removed) through Ann Marbury Hutchinson.

Yes, but has much closer relationships to them, than that!

Huntsman and President Calvin Coolidge are 7th cousins, 3 times removed, through William Goddard...

and again he has a closer relationship to Coolidge than that.

Here are some of Jon Huntsman's relationships to our 44 Presidents:

1. George Washington is a 2nd cousin 8x removed through Hannah Atherold & Col. William Ball and also Mildred Reade & Col. Augustine Warner
2. John Adams is a 3rd cousin 8x removed through Edith Rosamund Squire & Hanry Adams
3. Thomas Jefferson is a 12th cousin 6x removed through Baron James Touchet
4. James Madison is a 6th cousin 10x removed through Margaret Whittington & Thomas Throckmorton
5. James Monroe is a 13th cousin 8x removed through Margaret de Holand & Earl John Fairborn de Beaufort
6. John Quincy Adams is a 4th cousin 7x removed through Edith Rosamund Squire & Hanry Adams
7. Andrew Jackson is a 12th cousin 7x removed through Elizabeth de Percy & John de Clifford and also Margery le Despencer & Roger Wentworth
8. Martin Van Buren is a 4th cousin 6x removed through Maritje Ariensz & Pieter Quackenbosch
9. William Henry Harrison is a 5th cousin 6x removed through Jane Pyle & Thomas Ludlow and also John Cary
10. John Tyler is a 10th cousin 5x removed through Anna Catherine Vaux
11. James Knox Polk is a 13th cousin 8x removed through Margaret de Holand & Earl John Fairborn de Beaufort
12. Zachary Taylor is a 5th cousin 9x removed through Rose Davis & Edward Allerton
13. Millard Fillmore is a 5th cousin 5x removed through Hester Hyde & John Post
14. Franklin Pierce is a 4th cousin 7x removed through Ann Batt & John Webster
15. James Buchanan is an 18th cousin 4x removed through Margaret de Burgh & Earl Richard de Burgh
16. Abraham Lincoln is a 5th cousin 4x removed through Sarah Ludlow & Nathaniel Brewster
17. Andrew Johnson is a 16th cousin 6x removed through Margaret de Burgh & Earl Richard de Burgh
18. Hiram Ulysses Grant is a 5th cousin 5x removed through Elizabeth Scudder & Samuel Lothrop
19. Rutherford Birchard Hayes is a 7th cousin 4x removed through Amy Doggett & John Eddy
20. James Abram Garfield is a 6th cousin 5x removed through Anna Eames
21. Chester Allen Arthur is a 5th cousin 6x removed through Anne Wheeler & Aquila Chase
22. Grover Cleveland is a 6th cousin 4x removed through Hester Hyde & John Post and also Sarah Caulkins & Deacon William Hough
23. Benjamin Harrison is a 5th cousin 4x removed through Sarah Haines & Barnabas Horton
24. Grover Cleveland is a 6th cousin 4x removed through Hester Hyde & John Post and also Sarah Caulkins & Deacon William Hough
25. William James McKinley is a 17th cousin 5x removed through Margaret de Burgh & Earl Richard de Burgh
26. Theodore Roosevelt is a 14th cousin twice removed through Margaret Welles & Thomas Dymoke
27. William Howard Taft is a 5th cousin 5x removed through Alice Godfrey & Deacon Peter Holbrook
28. Thomas Woodrow Wilson is a 12th cousin 9x removed through Margaret de Holand & Earl John Fairborn de Beaufort
29. Warren Gamaliel Harding is a 8th cousin twice removed through Anne Almy
30. Calvin Coolidge is a 6th cousin twice removed through Elizabeth Wright & Eleazer Bateman
31. Herbert Clark Hoover is a 10th cousin through Dorothy Yorke & Gov. Thomas Dudley
32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is an 8th cousin twice removed through Elizabeth Scudder & Samuel Lothrop
33. Harry S. Truman is a 12th cousin 3x removed through Agnes Saville
34. Dwight David Eisenhower is a 15th cousin 3x removed through Margaret Willoughby & Lord William Fitzhugh
35. John Fitzgerald Kennedy is a 17th cousin 4x removed through Margaret de Holand & Earl John Fairborn de Beaufort
36. Lyndon Baines Johnson is a 12th cousin 4x removed through Katherine Marrow & Sir Robert Throckmorton
37. Richard Milhous Nixon is a 9th cousin twice removed through Ann Bates & Rev. Stephen Batchelder and also Margaret Picke & Richard Harrison and also Audrey Barlowe & William Almy and also Hannah Webb & John Ayer
38. Gerald Rudolph Ford is a 8th cousin once removed through Mary Johnson & Cpt. Samuel Ayer
39. James Earl Carter is a 9th cousin twice removed through Audrey Barlowe & William Almy
40. Ronald Wilson Reagan is a son of a 13th cousin through Cicely Grey & Baron John Sutton
41. George Herbert Walker Bush is an 8th cousin twice removed through Elizabeth Scudder & Samuel Lothrop
42. William Jefferson Clinton is an 18th cousin 3x removed through Margaret de Holand & Earl John Fairborn de Beaufort
43. George Walker Bush is a 9th cousin through Mary Moss & John Peck
44. Barack Hussein Obama is a 12th cousin twice removed through Alice Hunt & Robert Welles

• Newt Gingrich's family tree
• Mitt Romney's family tree
• Jon Huntsman's family tree
• Rick Perry's family tree
• Ron Paul's family tree

[the invisib1e hand]

o freaking please. what next, a JD Power rating?

[RnMomof7]

All this info from a Mormon site that digs up ancestors to baptize them into Mormonism

[Belteshazzar]

Oh, well, then ... why do we even bother with caucuses, primaries, and elections. Let’s just anoint him ... sorry, Him, now.

[Scoutmaster]

Okay. He's related to Presidents. He's also related to the guy who told us about the kind of vegetables we're going to eat in the Celestial Kingdom:

When the world is redeemed, the vegetable creation is redeemed and made new, as well as the animal; and when planted in a celestial soil, each vegetable derives its nourishment therefrom; and the fluid, thus derived, circulates in the pores and cells of the vegetable tabernacle, and preserves it from decay and death; this same fluid, thus circulating, forms a spiritual seed, which planted, grows into a spiritual vegetable; this differs from the parent vegetable, in that it has no tabernacle. This is the origin of the spiritual vegetables in Heaven. These spiritual vegetables are sent from Heaven to the terrestrial worlds, where, like animals they take natural tabernacles, which become food for the sustenance of the natural tabernacles of the animal creation. Thus the spirits of both vegetables and animals are the offspring of male and female parents which have been raised from the dead, or redeemed from a fallen condition, with the world upon which they dwelt.

[Past Your Eyes]

Those damm John Deeres have always been underpowered.
Let’s face it, Mormons are good at genealogy.

[Dr. Sivana]

It would have been fun to see what they could have come up with on Herman Cain or Bobby Jindal.

[ansel12]

His family immigrated here 170 years ago to serve Joseph Smith, (yes, for that reason, they had been converted a year or two before in England). As a polygamy cult they are connected to a lot.

Just one of Mitt’s great grandfathers had 5 wives at the same time, they produced 31 or 32 kids.

No male in his direct line, including his father, himself, and his five sons, has ever served this nation in uniform, during their 170 year history, that is much more than coincidence.

[plain talk]

That was one long ass post. Who cares who huntsman is related to? He is still a turd.

[ConfidentConservative]

BUT WAIT!!! IT is even better than that!!

We are ALL related! We all came from ADAM AND EVE!!!

[bigbob]

and, I just heard from Whorealdo, that Mitt is a Mexican. Father and Grandfather both born in May-hee-ko. Don’t ask why his GF was there....

[wfu_deacons]

Maybe I should run for President. James Madison is a 2nd cousin/X times removed and Zachary Taylor is 2nd cousin/X times removed. I sure I can come up with more— most of the older families of Virginia are inter-related.

[Scoutmaster]

Okay. He's related to Presidents. He's also related to the guy who told us about the kind of vegetables we're going to eat in the Celestial Kingdom:

When the world is redeemed, the vegetable creation is redeemed and made new, as well as the animal; and when planted in a celestial soil, each vegetable derives its nourishment therefrom; and the fluid, thus derived, circulates in the pores and cells of the vegetable tabernacle, and preserves it from decay and death; this same fluid, thus circulating, forms a spiritual seed, which planted, grows into a spiritual vegetable; this differs from the parent vegetable, in that it has no tabernacle. This is the origin of the spiritual vegetables in Heaven. These spiritual vegetables are sent from Heaven to the terrestrial worlds, where, like animals they take natural tabernacles, which become food for the sustenance of the natural tabernacles of the animal creation. Thus the spirits of both vegetables and animals are the offspring of male and female parents which have been raised from the dead, or redeemed from a fallen condition, with the world upon which they dwelt.

[Scoutmaster]

Sorry. When one of the dogs thinks it can jump in my lap, that sometimes happens.

[sand88]

I would think when you get to the 10th cousin, x removed, we are all related to some President. Big deal.

Politically speaking Mitt is a brother to Obama and a son to FDR.

[Scoutmaster]

Maybe I should run for President.

When the blood-letting is finished you may be all we have left. Can you tell us your positions on the major issues?

[pyx]

Questions about Mitt Romney are at the end of this post.

Section 1 of the United States Constitution, clearly states;

QUOTE No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; UNQUOTE

In Minor v. Happersett, the undisputed FEDERAL law clearly states;

QUOTE ...it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. UNQUOTE

Barack Obama has stated both publicly and in the book; Dreams From My Father;

QUOTE FROM Wikipedia: Barack Obama Sr. was born in Rachuonyo District on the shores of Lake Victoria just outside Kendu Bay, Kenya Colony, at the time a colony of the British Empire. UNQUOTE from Wikipedia.

Barack Obama Sr. NEVER became a US citizen.

That would mean that Barack Obama Jr. is NOT a natural born Citizen of the US and Barack Obama Jr. does NOT meet a key US Constitutional requirement to be President of the US.

Who was Mitt Ronmey's biological father ? I am NOT asking who was Mitt Romney's father by adoption. Again I am asking who was Mitt Romney's biological father and was his biological father a US Citizen at the time that Mitt Romney was born ?

If NOT, Mitt Romney does NOT meet a key US Constitutional requirement to be president.

(This post does NOT suggest or support any negatives about adoption or adoptive parents in general.)

[CainConservative]

Martha and Adam Christ, interesting ancestors of Newt’s.

Wait, I thought Newt was adopted as a baby...

[ErnBatavia]

Let’s face it, Mormons are good at genealogy.

For damn sure....my (now gone) Mom got this genealogy thing going on during her later years - always wanted to do a Utah research trip,

[CainConservative]

Gingrich was born at the Harrisburg Hospital in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on June 17, 1943, as Newton Leroy McPherson. His mother, Kathleen “Kit” (née Daugherty; 1925–2003), and father, Newton Searles McPherson, married in September 1942, when she was 16 and McPherson was 19.

In 1946, his mother married Army officer Robert Gingrich (1925–1996), who adopted Newt.

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Ok, now I know. ( :