The newly elected Massachusetts senator,Scott Brown,is related to President Obama. They are distant cousins. And this isn't the only Republican that Obama has family ties with. Not only is Scott Brown his 10th cousin,President Obama can also call Dick Cheney his cousin.
President Obama doesn't just have a "team of rivals" like Abraham Lincoln did.He has a family of rivals as well.
Here's more from The Wall Street Journal:
"President Barack Obama can add a new name to the list of things he calls Scott Brown: cousin.
Genealogists at the New England Historic Genealogical Society said today that the president and the Republican senator-elect from Massachusetts are 10th cousins. Obama’s mother and Brown’s mother are both descendents of Richard Singletary of Haverhill, Mass., who died in 1687.
The Obama-Brown family tree can be seen here.
This isn’t the first time genealogists have tied the president to notable Republicans. During the 2008 presidential campaign it was reported that Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney are 8th cousins.
The revelation led Obama’s spokesman to quip: “Every family has a black sheep,” and the vice president to jokingly refer to him as “my cousin Barack Obama.” (END OF EXCERPT) Read more here.
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